Could it be doing remote backup during downtime? That could be somewhat compute intensive, if the data is also being encrypted and compressed for the remote target.
Are there no ways to peek at running processes and resource usage on a Sinology NAS? I’d start with that.
Also, how old is the device? Maybe it is overheating due to dirt/dust buildup and some cleaning up and re-pasting would solve the issue.
It might be a tool, but it is naïve not take all of its externalities into account.
From tante’s piece:
Usefulness is not an objective, fully abstract property: A thing is not useful for everyone or in general but mostly just for specific people in specific contexts. And useful never comes for free.
But let’s take a step back and use a different example: Child labor. Child labor is very “useful” if you want cheap labor. It’s 100% deplorable to use it or accept it.
Edit: a good source of said externalities: https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware/src/branch/main/why_not_llms.md
I think this bit makes it clear that shipping LLM code from the kernel that wasn’t contributed by Gentoo is fine:
This policy affects Gentoo contributions and the official Gentoo projects. It does not prohibit adding packages for AI-related software or software that is being developed with the help of such tools upstream.
Alright, what are the alternatives folks?
Gentoo? Gentoo!
(But I’ll keep watch to see of they don’t revert course because “the models are now too powerful”, since it is a policy from 2024)
The policy
Gentoo Council has voted on 2024-04-14 on the following policy:
It is expressly forbidden to contribute to Gentoo any content that has been created with the assistance of Natural Language Processing artificial intelligence tools. This motion can be revisited, should a case be made for such a tool that does not pose copyright, ethical and quality concerns.
This policy affects Gentoo contributions and the official Gentoo projects. It does not prohibit adding packages for AI-related software or software that is being developed with the help of such tools upstream.
One shouldn’t talk about Omarchy and/or DHH and not bring up fascism (among other issues, but let’s stay focused), self-professed: https://world.hey.com/dhh/three-sacred-cows-that-must-die-so-europe-can-live-1afb203d
At least one Arch maintainer says Arch won’t be associated with them and calls Omarchy “just vibe-coded dotfiles and bash scripts”: https://floss.social/@serebit/117162401397324439
I use mTLS with Caddy to expose some of my services. It is quite manageable, and I only use if for myself and my wife.
We both use Android phones, and I configure access via apps for the services, that use the devices’ certificate store. It seems like the iOS way is to provide the client certificate and password to each app that’s gonna use it. I’m happy we can avoid that.
Big plus side for us is the simplicity of it all, there is no “always on VPN” requirement, and things “just work” with acceptable security.
I also sometimes access the services via Firefox, which is also able to use the device’s certificate store, although I have to keep selecting the same certificate each time.
As I understand it, even apps distributed by other stores need to be registered with and pay Sauron Google.
I see. So, alongside making your backup storage count towards you limit, they’re trying to make you hit your free limit and start paying (or pay more) for a subscription.
Typical en-💩-fication move.
Looks like someone bidding farewell via a military salute? 🫡 o7
Oh, nice!
I’m still on TrueNAS CORE and thinking about where to move next.
So far, I’m very impressed by Sylve, but I’ll keep an eye on this too.
PS: While preparing to move to TrueNAS CE, I converted all my jails to VMs, so I could just import them after migrating. But by doing that, I removed my need to move from CORE, as I don’t have jails based on out of date FreeBSD anymore!