| 16 Jan 2025 |
 Gaétan Lepage | It was a system provided by Equinix systems. They ended the sponsorship at the end of 2024.
Since then, nix-community has started to rent a new ARM builder. | 13:38:19 |
| Gaétan Lepage | https://nix-community.org/community-builder/ | 13:38:28 |
| Gaétan Lepage | * It was a system provided by Equinix systems. They ended the sponsorship at the end of 2024.
Since then, nix-community has started to rent a new ARM builder.
--> aarch64-build-box.nix-community.org | 13:38:51 |
 matthewcroughan | FWIW if you guys buy or subsidize the cost of an ampere machine we can host it in our new hackspace Birkenhack near to Liverpool on a gigabit connection | 13:40:28 |
| Gaétan Lepage | The current box is 169€/month. It means that over two year we would have paid for a ~4k€ system.
Might be worth to consider buying idk... Of course the reliability/trust aspect has to be considered. | 13:42:43 |
| matthewcroughan | I expect it to be very reliable, and you can trust me :) | 14:23:12 |
| matthewcroughan | My space is going to have fido2 door locks | 14:23:18 |
| matthewcroughan | I think the rent is pretty good though if the machine is used a lot | 14:25:21 |
| matthewcroughan | Gaétan Lepage: did you guys get rid of the impermanence setup? | 16:32:06 |
| matthewcroughan | I also find that putting ssh keys in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys doesn't work anymore | 16:32:19 |
| Gaétan Lepage | On the ARM box ? I am not managing it at all. | 16:32:36 |
| Gaétan Lepage | zowoq is kindly operating the infra. | 16:32:55 |
| matthewcroughan | zfs, nice | 16:44:13 |
 Jonas Chevalier | Do you have any KVM or remote hands to reboot the machine? That's the main thing that was holding us back from liberodark's offer. If the host goes down and we have no good way to reboot / replace it quickly, then the community gets stuck and it creates more overhead and stress for us (mainly zowoq). | 17:07:14 |
| matthewcroughan | yes to both, I manage everything with pikvm running nixos itself | 17:14:54 |
| matthewcroughan | almost all of my own machines have this now | 17:15:02 |
| matthewcroughan | and I live close to the space | 17:15:21 |
| Jonas Chevalier | nice | 18:14:43 |
 liberodark | Hi,
I still have no answer about the Ryzen builder.
If you are interested I invite you to tell me before 01/20/2025 it will be transferred to other tasks.
As for a KVM it can indeed be set up.
I just specified that there is not one by default but a KVM can be set up.
Best Regards | 19:11:49 |
| liberodark | I haven't seen any ping about this, no information was given to me about a refusal.
So I should take your message as a validation of a refusal? | 19:13:06 |
| Jonas Chevalier | hey liberodark, thanks a lot for stepping up and sorry if it comes off as not appreciating your offer. we were mulling over what to do because the overhead in cost and time might not be worth it, and then i got distracted by work. iff we go with a community-hosted solution, i think it will be easier at matthew's datacenter because i personally know him. | 19:36:26 |
| liberodark | No problem I understand perfectly and I don't take it badly ^^
If you want opinions on the services we host for nix you can ask the ofborg team. | 19:38:05 |
| Jonas Chevalier | nice, i didn't know that. are those also x86_64 runners? | 19:39:14 |
| liberodark | And if you take another solution no worries.
But I do this to help and it is also to help Gaétan Lepage who helped me a lot. | 19:39:36 |
| liberodark | And as a reminder, he is the one who told me about your builder problem.
So it is indeed relevant to choose what suits you best. | 19:40:49 |
| liberodark | Yep only x86_64 for now | 19:41:27 |
| liberodark | Probably other later if is needed. | 19:41:42 |
| 17 Jan 2025 |
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| 18 Jan 2025 |
| Gaétan Lepage | zowoq in general, how busy are the CI builders ? I am not refering to the community builders but the one used in the CI of nix-community projects). | 22:49:13 |
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