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Debating swapping another 1630 into the VM server when I revamp it since I've had better luck with it in PCIe passthrough than the AMD cards.
I guess the next question is which VM should get it.
The apple silicon platfom its its own thing.
The Debian stable and win11 builders will definitely get GPUs but which other node?
Also i may not have enough cores to run all of the builders simultaneously if I give them 16 vCPUs each. So i can cut them down to 4 or 8 each, …

Ugh this morning the Android support on my #SailfishOS phone entered a crash/restart loop, rendering all Android apps unusable 😩
Apparently the Android VM runs out of memory and there's no fix.
UPDATE: It seems I have found a solution/workaround¹ 🥳

Android App Support crashes after starting because VM runs out of heap
This morning my Xperia 10iii (SFOS 5.0.0.77) entered the Android restart loop as well. After several attempts, I managed to extract these logs: 05-05 08:08:43.223 310 338 W system_server: Throwing OutOfMemoryError "Failed to allocate a 104 byte allocation with 438952 free bytes and 428KB until OOM, target footprint 268435456, growth limit 268435456; giving up on allocation because <1% of heap free after GC." (VmSize 17406728 kB) 05-05 08:08:43.223 310 338 E AndroidRuntime: *** FATAL EX…

One of my favorite birthday songs. 🎂 🎸
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oUqz_VMy9Q

RE: https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/116177715684056042
Lessons from the Borg.

https://youtu.be/Vmx3SbgoPZc

It’d be better to double check your output before making claims like this...

github.com/cosmiciron/vmprint

GitHub - cosmiciron/vmprint: A pure-JS, tiny typesetting engine with bit-perfect PDF output on everything—from Cloudflare Workers to the browser. No more Headless Chrome to just print text. AND -- try the static demos on the home page below and see for yourself. · GitHub
A pure-JS, tiny typesetting engine with bit-perfect PDF output on everything—from Cloudflare Workers to the browser. No more Headless Chrome to just print text. AND -- try the static demos on the home page below and see for yourself. - cosmiciron/vmprint

🤯 The brain region associated with moral inconsistency
#brain

The brain region associated with moral inconsistency
Why don't some people practice what they preach? Researchers reveal that a brain region called the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) is involved. The researchers used fMRI imaging to identify brain activity patterns associated with moral behavior and judgment. People who behaved dishonestly despite judging the same behavior as immoral in others had less activity in the vmPFC, and when the researchers stimulated participants' vmPFCs, they became more morally inconsistent. The work is publis…

OK, I need to move the VM server to a 4U case *yesterday*.
Did a CI build of ngscopeclient with three builder VMs (debian stable, oldstable, and ubuntu 24.04) and it took forever because the CPU had hit 99C and was thermal throttling.
Not much point having a nice processor if I can't max it out without it melting.

So it looks like you can get single slot GPUs that are PCIe x8 and 70W TDP.
This would let me free up a bunch of space in my VM server by condensing the dual slot GTX 1630s into less space, hopefully making room for a ThunderScope and maybe an AMD card.
https://www.amazon.com/Yeston-Gra…

So I'm wondering if long term it might make sense to move the VM server from a 2U to a 4U form factor.
I'd need to move the storage cluster and core router each down 2U into a currently vacant spot to free up another 2U next to where the VM server is, but that would let me fit a much taller (and less noisy) heatsink/fan on the CPU and also enable use of full height GPUs.
Not a "now" thing but if I'm targeting a many-year service lifetime for the platform it…