And if you’re new to this world, my point stands exactly as you’re sescribing: you don’t buy hardware that is wildly incompatible with everything, and then complain when it doesn’t work. Which is what he’s doing here.

Yes, I understand he’s familiar with this world through his FOSS efforts, and yes, I get that it worked under X11 (only the display server and not most apps at the time, but I digress), but my point still stands.

The tone of the writing is an impatient “I’M STILL WAITING OVER HEEEERE”, and the response should be “Valid, but you’re going to continue waiting, so deal with it.” because UNLESS you intend to help contribute and fix the problem yourself, you’re at the whim of capacity of the project that is working on whatever features you need working. You’re getting it for free, not contributing, and still complaining.

I find nothing more sufferable than people who do this exact same thing, and are extreme outliers to begin with. You know how many people have 8k monitors even to this day? Less than 1%, and I’ll wager than the vast majority of them don’t run in 8k resolution, because why? Literally nothing you’re going to touch - even in video production - is going to use it.

It’s literally the framing of the article. It’s in the setup of the article. You want to pick and choose the content of the writing to have your point come true, go ahead and be that pathetic. I won’t even try and stop you. 🤣

It’s literally part of the same article. Right there. Click above. Second paragraph. Link right there. Talking about buying the hardware I years ago. The framing of the entire article. The point of the thing. The point of my comment. Don’t know how much more clear it could possibly be.

Are you trying to just ignore it? Revisionist history of a blog entry? Lololz. Sad, kid.

If you’re too stupid to click a fucking link at the top of the article, then read my very simple comment detailing his history with this from 2017—not 2025—then it is you can’t read, and are just flailing and pathetic here. Can’t help you, kid.

It’s a dumbass AI-powered recommendation engine with an awful GUI. That’s about it.

As far as it being malicious, that’s really up to you.

Wow, you must be really bad at everything then.

What I’m saying is you don’t by a fucking car before they build the roads to the area you want to drive to. Using your analogy which even you can’t make work 🤣

Your comment to me is that he was NOT buying hardware incompatible with anything but Wayland, and you were responding to my point that he most definitely was…because we quite literally wrote about it himself in 2017 when he got said hardware.

Not sure where your entitled sarcasm comes from when you’re just not reading anything in the first place. His assertions, not even mine.

Pi-hole is fine.

You don’t need DNS forwarding from your modem, just your router. You could also just assign clients on your network your pi-hole address as DNS to block as much as you can.

Then you didn’t read it. He linked it right at the top of the post.

Anything immediately in the position after for is an assignment of whatever you put there as a temporary variable inside the loop. You can call it whatever you want. The “i” is just used a lot in examples in programming for “item” or “iterate”, but you can literally call it anything. Anything that refers to it later will have a single item from the list in $LIST assigned to it for each run through the loop.

Apparently you didn’t read his own referenced write-up on that: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2017-12-11-dell-up3218k/

Exactly as I described.

No, it’s actually the opposite. He has an 8k monitor. Get rid of that, and then he has no blockers to using things the way he wants. Pretty simple solution.

If you buy hardware that is wildly incompatible with almost everything, then there’s your problem. You don’t buy things knowing it’s incompatible, and then wait for compatibility to come around whilst complaining about it UNLESS you intend to buy it to put some effort into making it work on your own.

That’s the entire point of this ecosystem and being able to upstream fixes.

It starts with the hardware first. You started well with tuning your CPU/MEM frequency settings, but that matters less if you’re running giant PSUs (or redundant), more drives than you need, and a huge number of peripherals.

Get a cheap outlet monitor to see what your power draw is and track it at the wall. I just got these cheap Emporia ones. I’m sure there’s more reputable ones out there.

Don’t go crazy with your networking solution if you don’t need them. PoE switches draw tons of power even when idle, and a 24-port switch is a huge draw if you’re only using 3 of them.

Consider getting a power efficient NAS box for backend storage, and low power Minipc for frontend serving instead of using a power hungry machine for all your network apps.

You can dive deeper into any angle thing, but these are the basics.

2nd paragraph:

Unfortunately, the driver support situation remained poor for many years. With nVidia graphics cards, which are the only cards that support my 8K monitor, Wayland would either not work at all or exhibit heavy graphics glitches and crashes.

So answering the headline question: it would work if you just stopped using the 8k monitor

Author sounds like the problem. Simple obstacles to making it work just fine in the way that you refuse to address, so this is on you.

I honestly am lost on what this distro is at this point.

Somebody fill me in.

There’s only so much reliability you can build into a simple home setup without it being a major loss on investment. In a datacenter situation, you’d have fault tolerance on all the network ingress: load balancers, bonded interfaces, SDWAN configurations…etc.

Unless you want 3 of everything you own, just do the basics, OR I guess consider hosting it elsewhere 🤣

Focus more on why the service is going down, and solve for that. Make it reliable by restarting automatically in the face of failures. A Reverse Proxy should be dead simple, and not change states between restarts, so it shouldn’t be dying in the first place. Having it restart on failures should be simple and reliable.

Hmmm, it does seem they’ve finally raised prices. Well that’s a huge bummer.

I can’t say the 3 options you posted are really good deals, but maybe that’s just the market in Australia. I’d check to see what the max RAM in those are and upgrade to at least 16GB though. It should still be cheap for non DDR5.

Anything can be a “server” in your use-case. Something low power at idle will not cost an arm and a leg to run, and you can always upgrade later if you need more.

Check the Minisforum refurb store and see what you can get for under $150.