You kinda have to temper your expectations. It’s a 7 year old $35 computer with only 1 gig of ram and no cooling.

I think the 3 was the last Gen. where the Ethernet shared the same network bus as the USB, and to boot it’s only a USB 2.0 bus.

Are you CPU limited, or do you think it’s the network/USB bus? If it’s CPU bound you could try deprioritizing qbit and upping the priority of pi hole. You can do this temporarily using the nice options in HTOP. I forget how to permanently do it, but you’d do it on startup of the program.

Shit that beats out connecting my 90s serial equipped typewriter to use as a terminal output.

OK Mr no fun allowed.

Ah, good point. Forgot about that. That’s probably it.

The slight dip so far this month could be the beginning of the end of the summer Lemmy. Schools just started this week near me, and green is 30 day users so it should take 30 days for that to fully drop.

Total Lemmy Active Users by Month

There’s a big spike during summer time. On reddit it was known as summer reddit. Basically all of the kids are out of school and have nothing better to do but shitpost online. Now they’re going back to school. It could be the lack of different users you’re noticing. Not sure why it dipped in July though, should have dipped in August.

They’ve gotten away with it for 10 years now. I’m sure they’ll continue to get away with it.

At least swap usage is low.

Are they far away from the router? I’d double check that the antennas are plugged in, and in a good spot for good signal. 2.4ghz has HUGE range, but also a huge interference problem so that alone could be it.

What I found on google for “FV-AC2030T” was a large pcie card with a big external antenna so it should have no issues with signal unless the antennas are damaged or not plugged in. Especially since it’s an Intel card to boot.

First thing I’d check is the frequency the wifi is running at. Right click the wifi icon and do Network and Internet Settings. At the top under properties it should say 2.4, 5, or 6ghz.

If it’s 2.4 are you in an apartment where there’s a lot of people? 2.4ghz is basically unusable in most apartments for anything other than basic stuff.

If it’s 5ghz then that’s good, but you’d want to make sure the signal is strong and the link speed is decent. Is the wifi icon in the task bar full? Or is it missing 1 or 2 lines? Anything other than “full” according to that graph is going to get bad, but shouldn’t be 5-10% packet loss. For the speed click on where it says wifi in that settings screen, then hardware properties and look at Aggregrated Link Speed. Is that more than like 100?

Z87 is 4th gen Haswell on Windows 11 which isn’t 100% supported, so that could be the issue too. Can you try a live USB of Linux to see if it’s a software issue or hardware?

If it’s an LSI card then make sure it’s either been flashed into IT mode, is capable of being flashed into IT mode, or is relatively modern and has that option built in.

What you really want is an HBA, but HBAs can be expensive, a raid card flashed to act as an HBA is typically much cheaper. A 6 gbit SAS card will do 3gbit sata, and no hard drive should be writing more than 3gbit. If you want to do SSDs then find a relatively more modern 12 gbit SAS card which will do 6gb sata.

I guess also look out for the REALLY old ones that won’t do over like 3tb. But I bought one of those for $20 almost 10 years ago so that shouldn’t be a concern. Those are probably all in the trash by now.

It’s like watching a train wreck. You know it’s bad, but you can’t look away.

unless you have some exotic hardware

Or very recent hardware. 22 is based on Ubuntu 24.04, which shipped with version 6.8 of the kernel which is from March 2024. That excludes all of Nvidia’s 50 series, AMDs RX 9000 series, AMDs 9000 series CPUs/boards, Intel’s Core 200 series/chipsets, Arc B series GPUs.

Sure your 5090 might boot and display a picture, but that thing aint gonna work right.

Even just looking at them is a problem. The main computer is held in place with two screws? Posts? and the weight of the machine can make the acrylic crack. I have two of them, but I store them upside down. I 3d printer some support braces, but my printer at the time sucked so they weren’t a perfect fit and it took a ton of work to file them down to the right size to fit, but not fall out immediately.

My work uses tailscale to get to work things. and I just want a VPN to get into my network at home. Maybe every once in a while connect to something like Mulvad. All 3 distinct programs that have virtually no idea about each other.

With OpenVPN just add as many taps as you need. With wire guard it doesnt way to play nicely with any other Wireguard VPNs running.

Look at it from the flip side: Linux is so bad people would rather deal with this than deal with Linux.

What am I missing here?

What would lemmy.sh do? Install the latest screenfetch and post it online?

Can you run multiple wire guard connections simultaneously? The reason I stick with OpenVPN is because my work uses wire guard and I can run two connections at the same time.

https://frame.work/products/usb-c-expansion-card?v=FRACCQ0004

On Framework Laptop 13 Intel platforms, that means Thunderbolt 4/USB4

Framework Laptop 16 additionally supports up to 48V/5A charging

Impressive. It is short enough that I’m not surprised it works. I have a 4 inch passive cable that successfully does TB4/PD100. The signal integrity is pretty butts though and high interference will cause problems. I’m not ballsey enough to try anything higher. Looks like there’s maybe some passives on the other side of the one they currently sell, but that doesn’t count.

They are if you have a retimer/redriver. Most extension cables do not.

I can’t find a picture of the inside of the module, but I guarantee you it’s not just a straight through cable. It’s got active circuitry in there.