u/TwistedPepperCan

Just saying. That’s two nights in a row where the closing dj is a no show.

NATO member states have been under much greater pressure to increase their defence spending to meet the 2.5% of GDP commitment but my question is why a percentage of GDP on defence is considered a good thing in the first place.

Doesn’t this incentivise getting less bang for your buck and clinging to legacy modes or warfare?

Everyone is probably familiar with only chestnuts like defence contractors placing manufacturing and R&D logistics for most programs in as many congressional districts as possible in order to ensure congress never has the votes to close a program.

Similarly Inter-service duplication between Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines often develop separate aircraft, missiles, drones, communications systems and software for overlapping missions. “Joint” systems are then created to solve the duplication, frequently producing one enormously complicated system that pleases nobody.

Couple this with the rise of drones costing thousands dramatically decreasing the cost of manufacturing an effective defence while reducing machines costing 10s of millions to paperweights.

Basically how is the conservative position here that government should always spend more and not how can government spend less and get more?

Posting to see if anyone’s fought the same ghost.

Setup: Minisforum N5 Pro running Proxmox, TB4 cable direct to a MacBook, trying to use the Thunderbolt link as a fast dedicated path for SMB.

The link comes up fine. thunderbolt-net loads, udev renames the interface (never shows as thunderbolt0, gets renamed on my box to nic0), I assign a static IP on a dedicated subnet, both ends ping. Looks healthy.
Then SMB transfers stall out — throughput collapses to double-digit KB/s and either hangs or corrupts. Small transfers limp, large ones die.

Tracked it to checksum/segmentation offload on the TB-Net interface: packets get handed off with bad or incomplete checksums. Disabling offload with ethtool -K <iface> tso off gso off gro off partially helped but never fully fixed it. It got worse when I put the interface behind a bridge and tried NAT-ing the TB path to a container — the veth compounded the offload mess.

What I’ve ruled out:
Not the hardware. Fell back to plain Gigabit Ethernet and SMB is rock solid, zero offload gymnastics needed. The TB4 silicon is fine.

Not PVE-specific per se — this is the Linux thunderbolt-net kernel driver, so I’d expect bare Debian/Ubuntu to hit it identically. PVE just happens to be where I live.

For anyone who’s been here:
Did disabling offload fully fix it for you, or did you also abandon TB for bulk transfers?

Anyone gotten thunderbolt-net stable behind a bridge, or is direct point-to-point the only sane config?

Is there a kernel version where the checksum behavior improved?

Anyone persisting the offload-off state cleanly given that the driver destroys/recreates the iface on every cable event?

Right now I’ve relegated the TB link to host-level ops only (ZFS sends, VM disk moves) and pushed SMB back onto Ethernet. Works, but feels like leaving a 40Gbps pipe on the table.

Curious if anyone actually tamed it?

I often wear my watch for simple exercises like the evening dog walk while listening to a podcast and every kilometre get whatever I’m listening too interrupted with a never ending stream of stats. By the time it comes to “keep listening too …..” I’m so fed up I’ve lost my concentration.

I’ve tried the mute and unmute option. I’ve tried just roaring mute, but is there any way to get it to just shut up and not interrupt when I don’t want it too?

I’m 6 years where I am at the same level.

Salary has increased every year and up a good bit on where I started but still the same level. Am I mad for staying, or are they made for keeping me.

I'm a data engineer but have been working on an easily navigable site for accessing data published by Houses of the Oireachtas as a hobby project and wanted to get any feedback experienced web developers might have on it and if there are any rookie errors I am making.

I designed it so that you can easily view individual T.D and senator details, parliamentary questions they have raised, read debates and legislation, Find details of dail, seanad and committee votes and share or save anything without needing a login account.

The idea being you can easily go from viewing who voted for or against a ban on fox hunting, to Paul Gogarty dropping some unparliamentary language and on to De Valera and Collins going hammer and thong at each other over the treaty in an easy flow.

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