Most of my drives are EXT4, but I started using BTRFS a couple years ago and will be using it on all new installs from now on. I really like being able to make snapshots and compression reduces the install size quite a bit.
Ext4 for system disks because it’s default in OS installers and it works well. I typically use it on top of LVMRAID (LVM-managed mdraid) for redundancy and expansion flexibility.
ZFS for storage because it’s got data integrity verification, trivial setup, flexible redundancy topologies, free snapshots, blazing fast replication, easy expansion, incredible flexibility in separating data and performance tuning within the same filesystem. I’d be looking into setting up ZFS on root for my next machine. Among other things that would enable trivial and blazing fast backup of the system while it’s running - as simple as syncoid -r rpool backup-server:machine4-rpool.
I’d be looking into setting up ZFS on root for my next machine
I too was on the path of adventure once but then the kernel module hasn’t been built after the upgrade. Also btrfs offers some nice features for root especially that zfs doesn’t have.
You can boot straight into snapshot, may be useful if an update went wrong or you don’t like new kde.
You can change drives and raid configuration online. For example I bought a laptop that had windows preinstalled, so I used the second half of the disk space for linux, then I figured I don’t need windows so I formatted windows partition to btrfs, added it as a new device, moved all the data there, deleted the old linux partition and extended the new one to the whole drive, all that easy and without reboot.
Oh nice. I think that all of those are possible with ZFS too. Although I’m pretty sure that the snapshot-boot is done outside of ZFS itself. As in, there’s something else that takes the snapshots and makes them available to the bootloader. I think zsys used to do that in the experimental ZFS-on-root support that shipped in Ubuntu 20.04. I recall having a snapshot appear before every update and those snapshots were selectable from GRUB.
Are you sure this is the only good FS? I know it’s solid and stable and used for many years as default Linux’s FS but I disagree that’s the only good one.
ext4, but the btrfs activity visible in the kernel changelog has slowed down recently after a long period of many bug fixes, so maybe I'll give it a try next time.
I started using it on my NAS and also on root. Then I switched my personal machine to ZFS on root. I manually created both setups (somehow). This is the worst part in my opinion. The best decision, though, was to ditch grub in favor of zfsbootmenu. Skips all the brittle steps with grub and its boot partition. Now I just have zfsbootmenu directly loaded by UEFI from the EFI partition. Everything important is directly on ZFS, including… well, everything. Can also use snapshots but I have not needed that yet.
Although the practice mostly died out during the mid- to late-20th century, instances of actors paid to applaud at performances still occasionally appear, most famously with the Bolshoi Ballet.
Then they replaced that with the laugh track machine, which was later replaced with a computer. Next it will probably be AI, and then that will piss off people so much that will circle back around to artisanal applause.
I am a season of DSC, the new season of Prodigy, and some short treks behind you.
I started with broadcast TNG, and then DS9. Once I had it available on streaming I watched TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, TOS, TAS and the movies.
Never was part of the fandom community until the last few years. I can’t imagine people being mad about a black Vulcan or female captain! Star Trek always felt to me (as a straight white dude) as a place where everyone was welcome.
I can’t imagine people being mad about a black Vulcan or female captain!
It was a loud minority. People who didn’t understand that Star Trek has always been about diversity. The “Vulcans aren’t black!” people were especially silly. I kept saying to them, “how many Vulcans out of the billions of Vulcans out there have we actually seen?” And TNG already had women who were admirals, so the complaints about Janeway were silly too.
It’s the usual conservative contingent of Star Trek fans who ignore everything that makes Star Trek what it is in favor of pew pew space battles.
Old timer here. It’s easy to be a completionist when you do it over decades.
Just watched them all as they came out for the most part, after starting somewhere mid season one of TOS. With the reruns, I was soon caught up.
But I always argue strongly that whatever show grabs someone most is the best place to start for them. There’s no ‘best’ way and some of the shows reach different demographics better or worse.
Our teenage kids have never made it through every episode of TOS or Enterprise, and balk at DS9. Each has watched every episode of at least one of the newer shows, but not the same ones. But they find different ones more interesting as they mature.
But I always argue strongly that whatever show grabs someone most is the best place to start for them. There’s no ‘best’ way and some of the shows reach different demographics better or worse.
I don’t disagree at all. In fact, I think TOS is probably pretty hard to sit through for a lot of people, not just your teenagers, but plenty of adults who grew up after TNG and more modern-looking shows existed. TNG suffers from 80sness here and there, but the look is unusual enough to not feel ridiculously dated, but TOS, as much as I love it, does not have that going for it. Special effects on a TV budget just wouldn’t have been enough in the 60s.
And I’m sure that a lot of people would be fine these days starting with something like SNW, but like I said, you could probably start pretty much anywhere. The only exceptions I would make are Picard and LD, both of which do rely on a lot of lore knowledge to really enjoy.
Also, Prodigy is such an incredibly good introduction to virtually all major Star Trek concepts that it’s a great place for anyone to start.
Longtime fans keep putting forward the inference, based on their knowledge of the franchise, that Lower Decks won’t work for those who don’t get the references.
But the data keeps squashing that hypothesis.
There is a significant group of younger millennials and Zs that got into the franchise via Lower Decks. They’re the target market of viewers of ‘adult animated comedy’ and the format/media rather than the Easter eggs are the hook for them.
On other platforms, you hear a lot from them, as well as from Trek fans who say they got their housemates, BF/GF or siblings into the franchise by watching Lower Decks with them.
If the show weren’t limited to a platform that’s otherwise offering little for their niche, it would have had more success. But Paramount+ just doesn’t have enough in that niche to make it worth subscribing to for them.
That’s not the actual definition of species (for example, assume a formerly viable species was reduced to three infertile members), but ask ten biologists to define species and you’ll get twelve answers so whatever
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