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I'm mostly with you except for the determinism. Not only do we KNOW that the universe is fundamentally probabilistic and not deterministic, all our technology works extremely hard to combat random errors because small electronics are absolutely not deterministic, they are just engineered to have a low enough randomness so we can counteract it.

In Germany we need coins to unlock supermarket carts, so I use the coin pocket for it's intended purpose to house my one coin.

If your backups are online and not in a warehouse, you are doing it wrong. Even my own personal backups are on disconnected disks. What a bunch of amateurs.

Because I get a non-toxic personalized YouTube feed that does not suck...

If you are planning to have any kind of database with regular random writes, stay away from btrfs. It's roughly 4-5x slower than zfs and will slowly fragment itself to death.

I'm migrating a server from btrfs to zfs right now for this very reason. I have multiple large MySQL and SQLite tables on it and they have accumulated >100k file fragments each and have become abysmally slow. There are lots of benchmarks out there that show that zfs does not have this issue and even when both filesystems are clean, database performance is significantly higher on zfs.

If you don't want a COW filesystem, then XFS on LVM raid for databases or ext4 on LVM for everything else is probably fine.

Which is completely fair to say but does not mean that people here should shit on windows users in general. If it works for them, let them do their thing.

Honestly by far the best subscription I have.

13€/month to never see ads on any device, give a lot more money to creators and free access to YouTube music so I don't need Spotify anymore. It's amazing how much you get for comparatively little money.

Brother has been amazing. Good products, manufacturer support for all operating systems, no subscription bullshit.

I'm usually not a particularly emotional guy but damn that movie messed me up for a while.

That really is one hell of a hot take 😀

I for one really love the zoomed out preview on the right that has become popular in recent years.

https://jason-williams.co.uk/assets/img/2020/debugging_screenshot.png

Really hard to do in a terminal. If you have errors you can see very fast where they are located/clustered in the file and can already tell just by the shape of the program where it is.

Another example: GUI color picker directly in my editor as a tooltip above color values in css/html templates.

Another example: inline preview of latex or Template fragments.

I was about to argue with you but the dictionary says you are right.

Take my upvote.

What's the problem with that script? That's such a basic use case and not very hard to do at all in systemd.

Where do you struggle with it? Can we maybe help with something?

From arch wiki:

Disabling CoW in Btrfs also disables checksums. Btrfs will not be able to detect corrupted nodatacow files. When combined with RAID 1, power outages or other sources of corruption can cause the data to become out of sync.

No thanks

That's why you do regular restore tests on separate systems. That should be standard procedure for any company. A fully encrypted disk should be noticable immediately.

Having issues with it as well. Mostly when downloading things that need me to be logged in somewhere

I don't quite agree because children will also readily make other children or trees or stones or the sky their enemy if they feel like it. And they will go out of their way to recruit other people to fight against said perceived enemies.

Pretty much every alerting system I know also has a filter option to only apply automated discovery rules to certain filesystem types.

But yes, most don't first squashfs or mounted read-only snapshots by default and it sucks.

How old are you?

Replace Debian apt sources with Ubuntu ones, do system upgrade and install the Ubuntu-Desktop package, now you have Ubuntu.

It's been a while since I have done this, but it's totally possible.

We did this transition from Ubuntu to Debian at Work with thousands of workstations.

It requires a bit of time and testing but it's possible.

You can't trust any full disk encryption without it because only a TPM can verify that your bootloader and initrd are not compromised.

Btrfs is in the mainline kernel since 2.6.29, that's 14 years ago my friend 😃

It's included in every major distro for a long long time.

For a handful of servers, try zabbix. Every distribution has a packaged zabbix agent. It has everything: web ui, a way to Auto discover things with a bit of setup, nice graphs, alerting, LDAP User Management if you need it, a way to define per person/group alerting/notification schedules. And the community is big enough that many common services (fail2ban/postfix/MySQL/etc.) have premade custom monitoring scripts. Adding your own metrics is also very easy.

But it's a gigantic waste of energy and time when you could just download a 2mb package and be done with it.

Not really. You can still use dm-verity for a normal raid and get checksumming and normal performance, which is better and faster than using btrfs.

But in any case, I'd recommend just going with zfs because it has all the features and is plenty fast.

Sample size, 50 students. Lol nothing to see here. This has no value whatsoever.

If you are not saving things to a remote location, you will lose all your shit in a flood or fire. Remote storage has gotten cheap enough to make it practical.

Hetzner storage boxes cost 3.8€/month for 1TB, which is more than enough for the important things people have.

Backblaze is 70$/year for unlimited data.

For personal use, I don't bother with databases on k8s. They are waaay easier to manage if you just let your host distribution run it as a regular service and Upgrade it through that

I want it to continuously adapt to my ever changing interests. That's one of the major features for me.

Are you using zfs?

I get what you mean but please read the study: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41347-023-00304-7

They themselves note that the very small sample size would be an issue. They say they would need 78 people for even remotely confident results, then they initially targeted 74 people, of which 20 dropped out.

Let me be clear that I too want to believe that social networks are bad for people, but studies like this one do very very little to provide any meaningful data to base my opinion on.

I disagree, you usually just need to get /boot and your EFI things right on the new disk, rsync stuff over and fix any references to old disks in /etc/fstab and maybe your grub config and you are done. I have done this migration>10 times over the years onto different filesystems, partition Layout and raid configurations and it's never been particularly hard.

Most of the time, it's enough to copy the whole EFI partition to the new machine and update whatever boot entries are in there to point to the right new partitions.

In case of a switch to something like zfs, it's a bit more involved and you need to boot a live Linux, chroot into the new "/" with /boot mounted and /dev, /proc, /sys bind mounted into the chroot.

Then you can run the distro-appropriate command to reinstall/ update grub into the EFI partition and they will usually take care of adding the right drivers.

That's literally what all the conspiracy bullshit media outlets claim all the fucking time and could not be further from the truth.

Maybe get out of your bubble a bit and read Reuters/APN/guardian and actually Fact-Check your own claims.

Not much difference because both signal and WhatsApp use the same protocol and encryption.

Because he has a lot of nerdy friends that use signal? Same reason anyone else would choose one messenger over another i'd guess.

But it does. If the universe was deterministic, choice would be impossible because all outcomes would be predetermined.

Quantum randomness may not directly provide free will but it does exclude determinism, which would make free will impossible.

I don't know where you take that from but the super rich are a tiny tiny fraction of the problem. They don't buy containerships full of stuff, they don't eat millions of animals per day, they don't constitute the vast majority of travel.

Yes, on a per person basis they have an extremely large footprint, but it's still a drop in the bucket compared to the industries that feed the consumption of the average citizens.