I needed to coordinate background scripts running across different machines. The obvious answer was Redis. Everyone uses Redis for this. The tutorials all use Redis. The Stack Overflow answers all say "just use Redis." So I looked at what deploying Redis would actually cost me: A running Redis server I had to maintain A broker to connect workers to it Celery or RQ on top of that Memory-based stora
External GPU (eGPU) + NVIDIA Drivers on Linux: Solving the Display Manager Initialization Problem TL;DR: If your NVIDIA eGPU works in recovery mode but gives a black screen on normal boot, you're missing one critical Xorg option: AllowExternalGpus. This guide shows how to fix it properly on any X11-based Linux distribution. Installing NVIDIA drivers on a Linux system with an external GPU (eGPU)