yea so many times i have asked my self if i am actually saving time on the actual hard stuff.

or use the system's oom ?

That's what's breaking the system and causing freezes. You can tune it a bit to minimize when it happens, but not get rid of the issue entirely.

All I want is the oomkiller to always kill firefox. Somehow that's very difficult to achieve.

The oom killer is a monkey with a gun. It’s a last resort when you were going to crash (or worse, hang) anyway.

You should have a much better “plan A” to avoid this situation.

... which then kills sshd, locking you out of being able to get in and do any recovery.

the system will restart sshd?

the system will kill whatever it damn well pleases. You can tune it with priorities to ask it to try to not kill that, and once it kills your sshd once, you'll probably configure it to exempt sshd from being OOM killed at all. That doesn't fix the memory pressure or hanging or stalling, but you'll at least be able to log into the box still instead of dragging out a serial cable.

i cannot hibernate in a swapfile in zfs

i prefer the macos mindset if not the actual OS

I just looked and I think what I'm talking about, where they folded more specific permission callouts under a broad term "Full disk access" "local devices" etc used to be more granular before they updated that UI to match the iphone. If I got a jumpscare permission prompt on macos, I used to actually be concerned. Now they're all jumpscares for basic stuff.

But I could be misremembering. I haven't liked any of the recent macos releases. I will begrudgingly install Golden Gate to hopefully fix my m1 max 64gb slowing ot a crawl with Tahoe.

If you really want to see what is doing what, you should install Little Snitch and Little Flocker. Many apps (from exactly the people you'd expect) are doing absolutely unhinged nonsense that no-one should put up with.

I didn't know about Little Flocker and BlockBlock, I'll have to check these out. I do a lot of game modding dev work and people are using mods as attack vectors all the time now and it's made me wanting to ebpf lockdown everything.

Between quick mod tools and even just the mods watch out nowadays. That vibe coded new game tool for a game you've played 10 years and never seen before could be just vibe coded malware slop, especially if its asking to sign software or bypass it. Now gamers are getting used to disabling security stuff just to play games.

I've never actually looked at this list, I've used lulu but they have a ton of security tools https://objective-see.org/tools.html

yeah i mean security is opposite to convenience until it is really really not

qwen3.8-flash-next on a single rtx6000 (~1 euro per hour on a spot vm) with buun-llama is i think the cheapest reasoning / euro atm.

hope deepseek makes me change my setup again

chill out it has not been a month.

futo is running whisper to transcript and it is local only

i mean qwen3.8 is a technical marvel

3.8-flash-next quantized in a "large" Q4 that just fits in 128GB RAM even more so, in how close it can get to state of the art in a number of benchmarks. Or a large Q8 version of it that fits in under 190GB. Competing against things that are closed weights/opaque information about the model and might very well be 600B+ in size.

it "fits" in 64 ram with mmap. granted it runs at 15 tk/s with a 9070xt but it runs

Right, I meant "fits" in the sense of I can load the whole thing into some combination of system RAM and GPU at llama-server launch.

15 tk/s isn't useless if you can give it big tasks to do overnight, or like ask it to do something and check back 3-4 hours later.

yeah specially if you have it do some long task that also has to wait for ie compilation anyways

having had to manually save some xls files by editing their xml, yeah it makes sense