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Fermentation (kefir, yoghurt, cheese). Recently lactase.

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Be aware that halfway decent backup solutions dedupe. Which is not to say you shouldn’t clean your shit up. I vote github.com/qarmin/czkawka.

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To a large degree, the point of RAID is to not care about drive reliability, trust the process. Also, you seem to conflate RAID with backup (“RAID is not a backup”), you want both. In a NAS, you’re probably better off with RAID5 + backup.

In a system that can take a drive failure, the current datahoarder zeitgeist is Manufacturer Recertified (Enterprise) Drives, see ServerPartDeals.com if you’re a yank, other countries have their own options.

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I’d suggest you move toward a backup approach (“RAID is not a backup”) first. Assuming you have 2x10Tb, get a 3rd and copy half of your files to it, disconnect it, and now half your files are protected. Save, get another, copy the other half, now all your files are protected. If you’re trying to do RAID on USB, don’t, you are already done, otherwise (using SATA or better) you can proceed to build your array in an orderly fashion.

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Literally is the grub menu…

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For even less pain try a ublue variant (Aurora or Bazzite probably for KDE depending if you game). No faffing around with codecs and RPMFusion etc…

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The *arr suite, e.g. rando hard drive TV show, add show to sonarr, import (yes it’s usually that easy), movies - radarr, seeking out stuff you’re watching now - prowlarr. Quite mature and way easier than hunting through streaming services.

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Narrator: They were lying about not using the data. They already had.

New to soulseek and have questions

So I saw this post here a couple days ago about music piracy and got interested in soulseek. I’ve installed nicotine in a docker container and started searching for some music. I’ve found some pretty hard to find music and this album my father used to have in vynil when I was a kid. Cool. But the files had PRIVATE written on...

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Yeah, some dickheads apparently want to monetize and should die in a fire, but it doesn’t hurt to ask. Patience usually does the trick, but I need to work out how to filter Private out of search results.

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I ran across it somewhere, greed makes it sound plausible, but I have no direct evidence.

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Figured that was likely, haven’t found it yet.

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Thanks, literally the second option. Blind!

The anti-AI sentiment in the free software communities is concerning. (lemmy.world)

Whenever AI is mentioned lots of people in the Linux space immediately react negatively. Creators like TheLinuxExperiment on YouTube always feel the need to add a disclaimer that “some people think AI is problematic” or something along those lines if an AI topic is discussed. I get that AI has many problems but at the same...

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AGI, then ASI. Goalposts change…

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“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” (a.k.a., the Sagan standard)

Should I even click?

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Fingerprint readers are definitely hit or miss… If you care make sure it was originally specced for linux (usually at least Red Hat), then you’re probably good for any distro.

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Also note that Thinkpads up to a couple of years ago (when soldering RAM became a thing) are mostly trivial to open and upgrade RAM / drives, so you don’t have to care about those and can pick up a bargain (look to T480 at the moment (not the TN screen tho), or whatever is 3 years or so old, as that’s the corporate fleets that are getting dumped onto the market).

Thinkpad recs?

I like used Thinkpads. I bought a T430s off eBay and used it for several years. Recently I got a T570 from work. It had a screen issue, so I bought a new screen. That didn’t fix it so I bought a new mobo, but it has a loose drive connector so won’t boot. Just now I killed it for good by putting an nvme in a sata slot lol....

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I’m on a T580, great machine, basically a P52. Dual batteries. No TN screens (I think, make sure). I put the discrete graphics card cooler in my (integrated graphics) coz I live in a hot place and some TPN7950 on the CPU, and it never cracks 70C and usually stays silent. Upgraded the SSD to a 2TB nvme, and it’s basically been flawless for 2+ yrs, touch wood.

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Yup, Framework 16 highly tempting, that 8xOculink project is awesome. I’m usually a firm believer in out of contract business models, but this…

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RAID is your friend. If you can’t afford to lose one, you might have a bad time (applies to all drives anyway). Manufacturer refurbs are your best bet.

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Seems like a solved problem. !aa

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Wat?

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TIL, and it makes sense.

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Wrong, but entitled.

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I used to Arch, now I’m on ublue-kinoite with an Arch distrobox. Is there a reason to consider switching? (actual genuine question, not trolling)

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Fairly universally the worst moment (Mine was actually validating, but ppl seem to hate it)

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Nice wastage satan :)

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Hail!

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Everything old is new again (GIGO)

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Narky, but real, updoot.

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Dear God, hope you got my letter…

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Give blood.

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Nice

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Wouldn’t it be nice to set 'em all up to want something (perhaps the glowing suitcase (soul?) from Pulp Fiction) and watch the greedy bastards fight, fight, fight…?

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If you’re doing weird shit, partition the 4TBs into 2x2TB, now you have 10x2TB. Or use unraid / mergerfs + SnapRaid.

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Huh, TIL. Wait, no, Gaia means Earth, not milk. Fact checking, not just for plebs.

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I eat foods of which I don’t know the ingredients all the time.

Might want to look at that, likely to catch up with you.

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DON’T YOU TRY TO JUSTIFY

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Also, I used to think it was ‘Some of those in that work forces’ TIL, better this way.

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Somewhere there was an asshole who made a decision, one of our failures as a (global, makes it harder) society is failing to hold responsibility accountable. Do the crime, do the time.

Can anyone help me with a problem with Photoshop on Linux (Lutris) (feddit.nl)

I managed to get Photoshop CS6 installed on Lutris, using the script on their site. The problem is however, that whenever I open a file (doesn’t matter if it is jpg, png, psd, etc.) the screen remains black. I can see the picture in the Layer thumbnail, but not in the main work-area. Does anyone know what the problem might be?...

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You might like to look here, github.com/LinSoftWin/Photoshop-CC2022-Linux

No idea if it works, but I installed something similar a few years back, and it worked (might have been CS6 at that). Searching Photoshop linux github has a few hits. There’s also a project for GIMP to skin the interface to look like Ps, I just sucked it up and learned GIMP…

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Hopefully without adding too much confusion, using rpm-ostree to add systemwide new packages/applications is generally to be avoided, keep your main OS clean and stable (thankfully bazzite has done the heavy lifting here for you already for all the gaming stuff, codecs etc). General apps (office, media etc) are usually installed via flatpak (using kde discover or gnome software).

If / when you want to explore the deeper (CLI / obscure things without flatpaks) Linux world open a terminal and enter


<span style="color:#323232;">distrobox-create --name fedora-mutable --image fedora:latest --home ~/fedora-mutable
</span><span style="color:#323232;">distrobox enter fedora-mutable
</span>

You can now go ahead and use dnf, install whatever with no risk of breaking your main system. But wait, there’s more, ‘exit’ out of fedora-mutable, type


<span style="color:#323232;">distrobox-create --name arch --image archlinux:latest --home ~/arch
</span><span style="color:#323232;">distrobox enter arch
</span>

You now have all the AUR (Arch User Repository) at your disposal, install practically any Linux program in existence, and use ‘distrobox export’ to put it in your main OS applications list. It’s pretty glorious. Remember to make homes for your distroboxes so they don’t pollute your main home.

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You can go ahead and say ‘Evil’.

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My supervisor talked of Barnum and Bailey. He wasn’t wrong, but glad I got out.

Science should be a worthy endeavour, currently it’s not. Sell out for more…

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Annoyingly insightful.

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I only read the first sentence and the last. Just like every reviewer ever. Be well.

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Meh, association taints.

Remote desktop for Wayland?

I only just switched to Linux last month that time I don’t know what Wayland or X11 is and I just use Linux like normal without knowing I’m using Wayland (KDE), now since I’m already configured my KDE desktop on Wayland and I don’t wanna do it again, so I’m looking for a remote desktop that work under Wayland not...

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Well, that’s disappointing.

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Also my experience, but before they made transference a thing they controlled.

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