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Blue Zone expert shares why partying all night isn’t decadent, it’s a key to longevity

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/blue-zone-expert-shares-why-partying-all-night-isnt-decadent-its-a-key-to-longevity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=blue-zone-expert-shares-why-partying-all-night-isnt-decadent-its-a-key-to-longevity

Com Ports on a Power9 Computer

https://video.hardlimit.com/w/qYa49Z84LTFf7euRRXeoAU

For now, #QEMU supports only 3 #CPU architectures ( #AMD, #IBM #POWER9 #POWER10 and IBM #S390x), for Intel and other(?) architectures, support doesn't exist yet - one can find it in QEMU #documentation about Confidential Guest Support https://stackoverflow.com/a/79195057/499698

Waiting for #raptor to make a #power9 laptop maybe.

Does a power9 based sbc exist ?

#power9
#sbc
#raspberrypi

#darktable runs on my #power9 machine natively now! woohoo!

#guix gets better on #ppc64le :ablobcool:

Checking on shipments before starting the workday to see if the newly acquired (fourth) LC922 is transiting to the colo… and yes, it's true #iLoveIBM!

Still pending OS storage decisions before supply chain:

- remain standardized on dual S4510 / PM863a
- alt standard w/ dual SATADOM for EFI boot handoff to dual NVMe
- introduced new standard of dual 2TB P3608 Optanes
- disregard OS drives and use iSCSI boot
- other ideas… 🙇🏼‍♀️

💞 #POWER9 #PPC #PPC64 #PPC64le 💞

#FreeBSD #Linux #HomeLab

Using #guix to fix an upstream package issue

https://mrblog.nl/2023/12/use-guix-to-fix-an-upstream-package-issue/

#power9

Inventory day! Spreadsheets! :ablobfoxbongo: :blobfoxupsidedowndizzy:

Sometimes my #homelab equipment gets out of hand and needs to be sorted. Surely these boxes haven't been around my desk for maybe two weeks? Surely not.👩‍💻

Looking forward to #holiday time off to rest a restless busy brain, wrap up the NanoPi.cloud #embedded cluster project, get those three #POWER9 systems online!, and maybe spend a bit less time staring off into the void at too-early hours of every morning. :heart_cyber:

It's usually the sign of a good day when a miscellaneous cat6a matches the flowers on my dress. 💁🏼‍♀️

Secondary to ethernet distractions, it's definitely a good day when two additional #Nvidia #Tesla T40 datacenter GPUs arrive for the #homelab! Now the question becomes whether to install both immediately, or wait until another is sourced so that each of the new #IBM #POWER9 systems will deploy with the same spec. Decisions... 🧠

Nice, my #guix install on #ppc64le compiled the #telegram desktop client successfully today. One less docker image to take care of, yay!

#power9

"A recent patch to glibc6 to add #POWER9 VSX strncpy was a whopping 250 hand-crafted assembly instructions, where its equivalent using Cray Vector principles is around 14."
https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/the_libresoc_project_simple_v_vectorisation/
(haven't watched yet)

This reminds me of that #MillComputing talk about how they automatically parallelize strlen.
I think it was this one:
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=JS5hCjueqQ0&list=PLFls3Q5bBInj_FfNLrV7gGdVtikeGoUc9

cc #theFoundry

@orowith2os yeah, I might. My issue is a known bug, I commented on the relevant github issue.

Being on the #POWER9 architecture does slow things down a bit as there are fewer people using that. (not to mention #guix which insists on reproduceable builds which is another delaying factor)

@filterpaper it's perfect for me, because my #guix install locally regularly breaks (#power9 arch is not that stable yet) and this way I can at least update my keyboard, which is obviously a primary life need ;-)

@vikings @fosdem Just visit and use a toolcart with embedded #power9 machine? 😜

My #power9 machine distro (#archpower) does not provide a #telegram desktop package.

Compiling it is far from trivial, so I cobbled together a container spec which works almost flawless. Based on the telegram package availble in #debian #ppc64el Drawback is that no apps from the host can be used; e.g. the web browser can not be used to open links directly, as the telegram app runs in the container.

Much faster than using the telegram web version.

Here are the files: https://gist.github.com/mrvdb/62c7a6482053d95cd1289ff13a835a08

Ironically the new HMC is #power9 and uses OPAL to boot, so go figure!

@jrozanski the machine is my daily driver

highlights: many vm-s, compiling packages (guix/yay), development in python/lisp/scheme/haskell, testing/simulating server loads.

If it is suitable for what you outline I can`t say. I personally would be ok with it.

The machine has excellent IO options, great multithread performance, mediocre single thread performance.

It`s basically a server oriented design.

https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Main_Page is a great resource for all things #talos and #power9

First #ppc64 patch for #guix submitted!

There's a ton of work needed for the ppc64 platform in guix.

#power9

@ruffni rebuilding is very slow, guix pull also takes forever for example.

I'm on a #power9 machine, so it may be early days.

At the moment, it's just not a workable solution.

Perhaps it's me.