ChojinDSL

ChojinDSL , 5 days ago

Not a place in particular, but if you’re driving, avoid any border crossings during peak holiday seasons. Specifically when you’re crossing from the EU into non-EU countries or crossing from Schengen into non-Schengen area. During peak times you might be waiting at the border for hours.

ChojinDSL , 7 days ago

What if they ask him to bring watermelon and chicken to the cookout? ;-)

ChojinDSL , 9 days ago

Not really with mdadm raid5. But it sounds like you like to live dangerously. You could always go the BTRFS route. Yeah, I know BTRFS Raid56 “will eat your data”, but you said it’s nothing that important anyways. There are some things to keep in mind when running BTRFS in Raid5, e.g. scrub each disk individually, use Raid1c3 for metadata for example.

But basically, BTRFS is one of the only filesystems that allows you to add disks of any size or number, and you can convert the profile on the fly, while in use. So in this case, you could format the new disk with BTRFS as a single disk. Copy over stuff from one of your other disks, then once that disk is empty, add it as a additional device to your existing BTRFS volume. Then do the same with the last disk. Once that is done, you can run a balance convert to convert the single profile into a raid5 data profile.

That being said, there are quite a few caveats to be aware of. Even though it’s improved a lot, BTRFS’s Raid56 implementation is still not recommended for production use. lore.kernel.org/…/20200627032414.GX10769@hungryca…

Also, I would STRONGLY recommend against connecting disks via USB. USB HD adapters are notorious for causing all kinds of issues when used in any sort of advanced setup, apart from temporary single disk usage.

ChojinDSL , 12 days ago

Stop fingering your mom. 😉 (Sorry, couldn’t resist)

ChojinDSL , 15 days ago

Mailcow allows users to setup their own aliases similar to gmail with a “+” delimiter. E.g. [email protected].

ChojinDSL , 27 days ago

Windows, in the past has been known to sometimes overwrite the Linux boot loader after a windows update, so be careful with that, since windows assumes no other os exists in the universe. Depending on your windows version, it might not be a bad idea to backup the license key. Recent versions store your computer’s information in the cloud, so unless you change a lot of components, it should reinstall without much hassle. But it doesn’t hurt to extract the key just in case. Microsoft gonna Microsoft. There are tools for this. E.g. jellybean key finder (or something like that).

Depending on the distro, it might help to disable secure boot in the uefi bios.

That being said, take it one step at a time. Don’t try to recreate everything you were doing in windows right off the bat. Get comfortable with the desktop first. Try different apps for certain tasks. If you have an Nvidia GPU, the experience can vary greatly between different distros. As others have mentioned, most distros have a “live environment” on the installation cd, which you can test to see if your hardware is recognised straight away. That being said, don’t feel like you’re married to a specific distro. Most Linux users will distro hop quite a bit, before they settle on one that just feels right. And even then they might change again after a while, if they get bored.

ChojinDSL , 27 days ago

Banned books? What year is this? FFS.

ChojinDSL , 27 days ago

“Shot and wounded…”, American cops take some notes!

ChojinDSL , 27 days ago

As much as I would love to see that, I seriously doubt that orange buffoon will ever see the inside of a jail cell. The republicans will find some bullshit loophole or game the system, like they always do.

ChojinDSL , 2 months ago

If you don’t know, or aren’t sure. Backup everything if you have the space. Once you’ve hit a couple of disaster scenarios, it will become apparent what stuff is really important.

Obviously, the stuff you can’t recreate otherwise is most important. But apart from that, even the stuff you can recreate from other sources might be worth backing up because of time savings. E.g. faster to restore from backup than to recreate.

ChojinDSL , 2 months ago

There is also the Hurd kernel, which has been in development for aeons.

ChojinDSL , 2 months ago

Back when I was still using Gentoo, configuring your own kernel was a rite of passage. It was kind of fun to try and configure it as minimalist as possible to cut down on the kernel compile time. Also, understanding all the different options and possibilities. And thanks to use flags, you had access to all these different patch sets for the kernel, which took a lot of the pain out of trying things like experimental schedulers or filesystems.

ChojinDSL , 2 months ago

You can try to faff around with keywords and tags, e.g. give x264 or x265 a higher score rating, etc… As a failsafe you can configure a trashcan location and specify that all deleted files go there first and don’t get emptied for X amount of days.

ChojinDSL , 2 months ago

Mislabeled files, not so much. Since there isn’t really a way to verify the content until it’s downloaded. You can adjust things like which file sizes are considered a certain quality, e.g. HD or 4k. But one approach could be that you define tags for release groups which you know and trust. And give those tags a higher score. This should lead to releases by those groups being preferred.

You can of course add multiple tags with positive and negative scores. For example I use tags to give a higher score to releases that have 5.1 audio, or which are non-hdr.

ChojinDSL , 3 months ago

Around 2003-2004. I was still a bit of a Linux noob, just getting to grips with Gentoo.

Had two no-name WiFi adapters that weren’t directly supported under Linux. Found some obscure forum thread that mentioned them, along with which lines in which source code driver to change to make these adapters work.

ChojinDSL , 3 months ago

That’s quite the lamest clickbait attempt I’ve come across in a while.

ChojinDSL , 3 months ago

PC Games.

ChojinDSL , 3 months ago

It’s cheaper on other stores. I found it for around 15 bucks on indiegala.

ChojinDSL , 3 months ago

As a seasoned sysadmin, I approve.

ChojinDSL , 3 months ago

I think on some distros this is disabled by default. I have forgotten how you can re-enable it.

ChojinDSL , 3 months ago

UPS with usb allows you to configure a script to properly shutdown your server when a power outage happens and the UPS battery is about to run out.

ChojinDSL , 4 months ago

Also, with windows and Mac OS, the new versions are usually just an excuse to make you pay again.

ChojinDSL , 4 months ago

I always loved Tekken more, because a good match between skilled players looked like something out of a choreographed kung Fu movie.

At least up to the PS2 era. It was also slower paced so you had to be more strategic. I always thought all the little character story movies were a lot of fun. SF feels very bare bones in comparison. But I stopped paying attention a while ago. MK had a distinguishing gimmick with the fatalities, but the general character design never meshed well with me.

ChojinDSL , 4 months ago

Not surprising when corporations and special interest groups practically run the U.S. Government.

ChojinDSL , 4 months ago

(un)fortunately, my thinkpad has a spillproof keyboard.

ChojinDSL , 4 months ago

Back when I still had a desktop system with an NVidia GPU, I never had these problems. On my gaming laptop with an onboard intel + nvidia gpu, I also didn’t have these problems. But…I’m very experienced with linux, so most noob problems are not an issue for me. That being said, POP_OS supported GPU switchting out of the box, without having to faff around. YMMV.

ChojinDSL , 5 months ago

Big surprise here.

ChojinDSL , 5 months ago

Do you have a NAS at home with enough storage? You could use wireguard to setup a vpn tunnel, then mount your NAS’s storage on your vps via nfs and using cachefilesd. If your upload speed is sufficient, this can work pretty well without too much waiting for a stream to start.

ChojinDSL , 5 months ago

Gravity. The biggest killer of Russians lately.

ChojinDSL , 6 months ago

Gentoo is really great if you want to learn a lot about Linux really fast. Back when I still used it, the documentation was second to none.

ChojinDSL , 6 months ago

Laughs in ThinkPad running Linux.

ChojinDSL , 6 months ago

That’s a trend that needs to die. I blame MacBook airs and ultrabooks for this nonsense.

ChojinDSL , 6 months ago

Short answer, no. Nobody knows. At least not unless you can accurately predict exactly how many API calls and how much data you will transfer.

ChojinDSL , 6 months ago

Serbia is relatively easy to emigrate to. Getting a passport is not that big of a deal there.

ChojinDSL , 7 months ago

Windows XP pissed me off one two many times.

ChojinDSL , 7 months ago

How are people still not tired of this crap?

ChojinDSL , 7 months ago

Fuck all of them.

ChojinDSL , 7 months ago

So many options. As others have mentioned, rsync, borg, restic, etc. You might want to look into filesystem snapshots. If you use something like BTRFS you can create instant snapshots and send them to a second BTRFS formatted disk or even a remote system with a BTRFS filesystem.

ZFS would also work here.

I use btrbk for automatic BTRFS snapshots and backing them up to remote systems.

If you want built-in encryption you can use Borg or Restic, which also has the advantage of deduplicating within a single backup set. Restic can also backup to an s3 bucket, in case you want to use a cloud service.

ChojinDSL , 7 months ago

Yes of course. On the btrbk homepage they even describe how to set it up so that a backup gets triggered automatically when you plug in a designated backup drive.

My setup is to create local snapshots and keep X amount of local snapshots. Copy snapshots to a remote server and keep a different amount of snapshots there. Finally I also have a backup drive and btrbk is setup to copy all my local snapshots to that backup drive when it’s plugged in.

ChojinDSL , 7 months ago

Setup jellyfin and pick up a 4k Google Chromecast for your TV. Then use the jellyfin client app on that. Nice and easy.

ChojinDSL , 7 months ago

Rare nuggets of gold swimming in an ocean of shit.

ChojinDSL , 8 months ago

Well… Right off the bat, I can see what the problem is. You have totally mixed up entries for different releases of debian in there. It’s a wonder it hasn’t completely broken your system.

ChojinDSL , 8 months ago

Dude, get some sleep before you kill someone.

ChojinDSL , 8 months ago

Qownnotes with nextcloud.

ChojinDSL , 8 months ago

If you have a big screen TV and a good sound system, I would say no.

ChojinDSL , 8 months ago

I’ve summarised the article as best I could: “Waaaah, waaaah, waaaah!”

ChojinDSL , 9 months ago

Sometimes it can also be due to a wonky hdmi cable. It might be triggering re-syncs with the display.

ChojinDSL , 9 months ago

I use mailcow for self hosting.