For IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad laptop enthusiasts.
desk, check. sorta noisy poe++ switch, uh hu... laptop about the size of my keyboard, yep. laptop that's constantly trying to distract me from priority tasks.. yes, again.
oooh okay saturday morning, you win this round. time for laptop debugging!
#arm64 #thinkpad #snapdragon #freebsd #nerdery #ihearthardware
@[email protected] Wait, is this a T14s G6 with the X Elite SoC?
@[email protected] that's correct. it arrived rather recently, and firmware updates are required (easy, but requires Qualcomm's app which runs on windows, so that's a thing). As of today I'm working through some kernel debugging and setting up remote log capture for easier parsing during boot iterations. very fun!
@[email protected] That sounds way better than I expected! Excited to see non-Windows support increasing over the next months. I’d love to also tinker with this device. :)
@[email protected] Do I see two fiber optic cables going into your workstation? 👀
What do you have there, 2x 10G in LAG?
@[email protected] That's an Intel X710-DA4 4-port NIC, which you're quite correct about... 2x 10G lagg with a bridge on top, the other two ports are similarly lagg/bridged with one port disconnected during an optic swap.
@[email protected] may I know the usecase? just curious
@[email protected] use case for the lagg/bridge: the lagg(s) provides link failover for connection redundancy, and the bridge(s) offer transit for network connections to/from jails and virtual machines located on the host
use case for the host itself: it's a development resource which allows me to run (and break/fix/iterate) code and infrastructure locally, prior to deployment in staging / load-test / production where things cannot be readily iterated in the same lackadaisical adhoc manner.
@[email protected] I could never take a photo of my desk. What shocks everyone is that I’m extremely organized with my computer, server, etc. (everything is arranged meticulously according to fixed rules that I don’t compromise on), while my workstation is always chaotic 🙂
@[email protected] @[email protected] now you have to
@[email protected] @[email protected] Sorry, I can’t. I have to rush to mow the lawn before it gets too dark 😆 😆 😆
@[email protected] @[email protected] dura lex sed lex
@[email protected] @[email protected] Jokes aside, I also have documents and things I can't show right now, but I'll make one soon 🙂
@[email protected] @[email protected] I’ll go first: https://michal.sapka.me/blog/uses/