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southsamurai , to til in TIL the mangaka Naoko Takeuchi (Sailor Moon) is married to another famous manga author Yoshihiro Togashi (Hunter x Hunter and Yu Yu Hakusho)
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WEEEEEEEEEEB!

Sorry, it’s tradition in my house lol.

Jokes aside, that’s pretty damn cool :)

cashmaggot , to til in TIL that in the early days of Fed-Ex, there was one time the company couldn't afford the fuel bill for their planes, so the founder took the company's last $5,000 and went to Las Vegas and won $27,000

I feel like there's undercover mob stuff happening here. But I also cannot prove it in any way, shape or form.

taiyang , to til in TIL that in the early days of Fed-Ex, there was one time the company couldn't afford the fuel bill for their planes, so the founder took the company's last $5,000 and went to Las Vegas and won $27,000

Given how I’ve never had a good FedEx experience, this tracks.

JTskulk , to til in TIL the Allies fielded thousands of tanks by the end of World War I, a major technological breakthrough. The Germans deployed just 18.

If I remember my history accurately, that’s because tanks were a new British secret weapon. The whole reason they’re even called tanks is because that was the code name, they referred to them as water tanks.

rockerface ,

I think the original actual name was “landships”, but the “tanks” stuck better for some reason

Mikelius ,

Yes, in 1916 which is fucking crazy to think about because the french army literally had napoleonic era style cuirassiers in 1914.

ikidd , to linux in What file systems are you using on your devices and why?
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ZFS on anything storage related. Enterprise level snapshot and replica management.

Psyhackological OP ,
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How’s it better than XFS? I heard same things about it too.

ScottE ,

XFS does not do snapshots, replicas, and all the other myriad of things that ZFS does.

ikidd ,
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ZFS is completely different than XFS. XFS is like a better (different?) ext4. ZFS is an error-checking software raid COW filesystem that does snapshots and can have multiple replicas, both local and remote. It uses zvols and datastores. Think btrfs on steroids and with a working raid subsystem.

It’s got a weird semi-closed license because Oracle is involved but it’s never been enforced and at this point is in such widespread use in large and small enterprises that it would be impossible to enforce.

theroff ,

OpenZFS is under a completely FOSS license but it’s incompatible with the GPL and can’t really ever be merged into the Linux kernel. The workaroundids to provide it as source code which gets compiled as a module every time there’s a new kernel via dkms.

More controversially, Canonical ship OpenZFS pre-compiled in Ubuntu which some lawyers believe to be infringing on ZFS’ codebase.

Honestly the OpenZFS situation on Linux is probably the biggest single reason for the growing interest in btrfs and bcachefs, the former slowly becoming default on more Linux distros over time and lots of investment from SUSE and Facebook AFAIK.

rotopenguin , (edited ) to linux in What file systems are you using on your devices and why?
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ExFAT is the LCD filesystem for flash sticks. FAT32 is the filesystem that you have to use for devices designed back when Microsoft was awful about Exfat licensing.

Everywhere else, Btrfs. If Oracle didn’t poison-pill ZFS licensing and it was common on Linux, I would be using that instead. Basically, taking it on faith that a drive didn’t fuck up your data is crazy. The most basic responsibility for a filesystem should be ensuring that “the files come out exactly the same as when they went in”.

reddig33 , to til in TIL George Clooney was asked to play himself in a sketch for the Movie 43 (the gag was that Clooney is bad at picking up women), and Clooney replied "No fucking way."

Weren’t most of the “stars” in this movie only there because someone involved called in favors?

CitizenKong ,

Yep, and it was actually made over a long time, whenever the actors were between projects and a few days of shooting playing something different sounded nice. Also, each famous actor was used to goad the next. (Specifically, the Hugh Jackman-Kate Winslet segment which was shot first.) And the segments themselves were also directed by stars like Bob Odenkirk or Elizabeth Banks.

Tikiporch , to til in TIL that in the early days of Fed-Ex, there was one time the company couldn't afford the fuel bill for their planes, so the founder took the company's last $5,000 and went to Las Vegas and won $27,000

Before this, he won $4,000,000 by inheriting it and was able to convince a bunch of his rich friends and fellow Yale alums to bet $91,000,000 on FedEx.

Lucky guy winning that $27 grand…

haui_lemmy ,

Jesus christ. Way to spoil the mood! /s

It’s actually very good to always attach these „privileged success stories“ to these people to demystify them.

Aurenkin ,

Wow, that sounds so easy. I guess anyone can be successful!

teamshinanagin ,

This guy was so lucky! It says here also he killed someone in a hit and run (no charges) and separately a passengers of his car died after he flipped it (no charges, the cause of the accident never determined)

wargreymon , to linux in What file systems are you using on your devices and why?

Google cloud storage, copilot my files with Microsoft, crowdstrike running in background for better security.

IsoSpandy ,

Apple chastity cage to prevent me from being tempted by Linux. /s

Psyhackological OP ,
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I wouldn’t be suprised if that’s the case for Windows users.

Kolanaki , to til in TIL George Clooney was asked to play himself in a sketch for the Movie 43 (the gag was that Clooney is bad at picking up women), and Clooney replied "No fucking way."
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I’m surprised anyone signed up for the “poop on me” sketch. They got copies of the script before they agreed, right?

ObsidianZed ,

It was Anna Farris and Chris Pratt. Come on. It was basically an SNL skit.

delirious_owl , to linux in What file systems are you using on your devices and why?
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Every year I buy a couple ~$5 USB drives and plug them into my jbod machine in a software raid1. At this point there’s about a hundred in long array of daisy chained USB hubs.

Each drive is formatted with fat32 and added to an LVM. Don’t judge my ghetto NAS.

bonus_crab ,

how fast is it?

delirious_owl ,
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Roughly the same speed of my dick slicing through frozen butter at the North Pole on January 1st, 1993

vizzi ,

LOL

itslilith ,
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Amazing shitpost

slice ,

I would love to see a complete post about this.

drwho ,
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So would I. I’m really curious about how well it works.

delirious_owl , to linux in What file systems are you using on your devices and why?
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ext4 because its the default and works fine

Psyhackological OP ,
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Never doubted it. Do you use journaling feature on it?

Empricorn ,

Wasn’t that the entire purpose of ext4 vs ext3? As the default, I also keep journaling on for ext4 partitions. Even /boot.

theroff ,

ext3 had journaling, but not ext2. Also ext3 doesn’t really exist anymore as it was merged into the ext4 driver which can read the old format.

billgamesh ,

I like ext4 because it’s easy. If anything breaks, ANY live USB can fix it. I use fat32 for my removeable drives, because anything can read it. I don’t use journalling for anything manually, but I imagine it’s useful when my disk crashes because I let my laptop die

Lost_My_Mind , to til in TIL George Clooney was asked to play himself in a sketch for the Movie 43 (the gag was that Clooney is bad at picking up women), and Clooney replied "No fucking way."

Because clooney is a smug bastard. With Lemmy being so small, I’m sure you’ve heard me say this multiple times before this topic. It’s surprising how often I have to call clooney a smug bastard, but here we are.

delirious_owl , (edited )
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Its not that small

Anyway, he cast himself as officer shithead for Catch-22

Lost_My_Mind ,

I haven’t seen the movie, but I’m confident he was smug in that role. Because George Clooney was played by George Clooney…the smug bastard.

delirious_owl ,
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Its a show on hulu. He’s a dumb guy who gets cuked by his wife by the main character. He didn’t write the role, he adapted it from the book. And that’s the (minor) character he played.

ObsidianZed ,

Then there’s Hugh Jackman, nearly polar opposite.

walter_wiggles , to til in TIL that in the early days of Fed-Ex, there was one time the company couldn't afford the fuel bill for their planes, so the founder took the company's last $5,000 and went to Las Vegas and won $27,000

I don’t see how $27,000 could buy a meaningful amount of fuel.

subtext ,

$27k in 1971 is about $209k today and it only bought them about a week of fuel.

Kolanaki , to til in TIL the Japanese words 青 (ao) and 青い (aoi) can refer to either blue or green depending on the situation.
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What most of the resources Im using to learn Japanese have taught me is that it’s a very context sensitive language. The same words can have different meanings or spellings just depending on how they are being used. It can be really confusing at times when learning a “new” word that is the same as a previous word, but now it has a different meaning because it’s using it differently or spelling it differently.

There’s also levels of politeness that change how you might say the same phrase, depending on who you’re saying it to. All I know, so far, is the super professional polite way of saying anything; but nothing I watch to immerse myself in the language uses that form, so even phrases I can understand sound a bit different than how I had learned the phrases.

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