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Bad enough to install a weird binary blob, I'll wait until it's out of beta.
The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
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Don't worry, they're having a sale on Maxtor drives at Costco!
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Backups were actually better. Shit like DATs and mini-DATs were common. Now outside of an industrial setting you barely have any choices other than using other hard drives, trash like optical media, etc. It used to be a snap to set up a tape backup with total and incremental backups. You can still get those but not at any reasonable price.
Now one of your best bets is operating out of a data center and having RAID, but as we just saw recently with the Farms, literally the entire RAID can simultaneously fail and you're fucked.
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GNOME Foundation hires "Professional Shaman" as new Executive Director (A) Lunduke does what Kiwifarms don't, apparently.
Holly's been scrubbing her shamanic Internet presence as of assuming her new position, but an archive of her about page is available (IA, Today). Let's see if she can be of some more use to the GNOME people.
The first ones are just hilarious, but the last one does make you wonder. However, GNOME's own press release (A) answers that one:
Oh yes, non-profits are notorious for just giving away money with no strings attached whatsoever. Fun times ahead.
Holly's been scrubbing her shamanic Internet presence as of assuming her new position, but an archive of her about page is available (IA, Today). Let's see if she can be of some more use to the GNOME people.
Holly can try and summon the spirit of Steve Jobs from AIDS hell so he can tell their devs they've made a shitty MacOS pastiche.
OK, if they make GNOME the first official Shamanic Linux DE, they've got me on board.
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I did think it was odd that they were appointing somebody non-technical to that six-figure position, but the whole woo aspect makes it even more ridiculous. Who is she sleeping with?
I did think it was odd that they were appointing somebody non-technical to that six-figure position, but the whole woo aspect makes it even more ridiculous. Who is she sleeping with?
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God I hate the Gnome foundation, I'll never forget them jumping on the bandwagon to get my boy Richard Stallman kicked out of the free software foundation while talking shit about the gnu project.
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I will laugh my ass off if this inspires a boom of witchcraft themed projects in the near future.
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Being head of the GNOME Foundation is, in theory, a serious job. Nobody's going to respect her once they know she spends her spare time sacrificing goats to Gaia, or whatever the fuck it is that shamans do.
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This is so stupid. It's a software development project, they need a Tech Priest or a Enginseer not a shaman.
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To be fair I'm not sure I'd want a senior Admech borg in charge of my cogitator interface.
"Why can you not interpret binary directly?"
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Yeah, fucking around with hardware RAID is probably a bad idea for a home setup.
I've had good results with ZFS on a FreeNAS (now it's called TrueNAS apparently) distro in my house.
Six 4tb drives, with ZFS' RAIDZ2 setup, gives me 16tb of storage. It's kind of a big loss to redundancy, but I can have up to two drives fail without losing anything.
I've had it for three years now and I've had drives fail. Swapped the drives out, let it resilver and then things are fine again.
Things really are less simple nowadays with these large drives. I think there's probably a lot of people who realize what a pain in the ass it is to do proper backups, so they think "well, what are the chances...?"
And then they get fucked.
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So GNOME is basically now Aztechnology. I didn't have "Shadowrun coming true" on my 2023 bingo card.
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I will be waiting to see the results. I expect that Gnome should at least have a better aura and more well aligned ley lines.
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The absolute fucking way. Hardware RAID kind of sucks these days, and it dies you have to go find the same card, and.... Yeah..
My current ZFS structure is an 8-disk RAID10 style with 10TB drives and both types of cache. Works pretty good.
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I originally read this as "a broom of witchcraft" and it gave me a good chuckle.
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Gnome is shit though. It keeps on spawning new forks of their DE because it's so bad
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Can't expect less than utter shit from a project with a fucking foot for a logo, solidified by their decision to pronounce it as "guh-NOME". The only decision those troglodytes should be allowed to make is exile or ritual suicide.
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And didn't they have a hard dependency on systemd for a while? Lol
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I'm no ZFS guy, but I've been using LVM with RAID6 for over a decade now. Same deal. I've watched drives fail, messed with them as they fail, then replaced them after I get too irritated. Effortless, without data loss.
While the simulfail that Josh experienced is still possible on any RAID configuration, and backup must take this into account, the more heterogeneous your drive config, the less likely the failures will be simultaneous.
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Used to run FreeNAS but wanted Docker as well on the same server. Ended up just migrating to Debain then installing ZFS for it, ran a zfs import command. It worked like a charm, import was smooth as could be, you don't get a fancy webgui, but I'd rather do 99% of things via cli anyways.
Had to set a scrub with cron. Running RAID6 with 12 used 4TB enterprise HGST/Hitachi drives for almost a decade at this point. It just werks. Had two drives fail, was smooth to replace. Then added 6 drives to the previous 6 drives, that was a little more of a PATI iirc. Without a cache, it maxes my 1gbe LAN, so I can't complain. 10gbe sounds nice, but until I can get an used enterprise grade 10gbe with POE for a decent price I'll hold off.
RAID6 is almost a must with 8gb+ drives. There is a non-zero chance that another drive fails while reslivering and reslivering is going to put some wear on your drives. The fact you can get 20tb+ drives now, it would be stressful reslivering a full pool without an LTO backup or another local backup.