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geoff , 1 month ago

I have taught my children epistemology for this reason. It is THE key skill in the disinformation age.

geoff , 1 month ago

I like it much better when Republicans stick to pushing for things that are just useless rather than destructive.

geoff , 1 month ago

Came here to find a Mitch Hedberg reference; was not disappointed

geoff , 2 months ago

Sigh…reinstalling Deus Ex today, then.

geoff , 2 months ago

Yes, tell us more…

geoff , 2 months ago

They just had to make it look like a Geth.

geoff , 4 months ago

We got a new heat pump installed in our 1920s house in Minnesota a couple years ago. It works its ass off all year, and only needs help from the boiler in the deepest depths of winter, which it probably wouldn’t if the house were better insulated. It’s always cheaper for us than gas, and it feels great to have our climate control 80-90% decarbonized.

geoff , 4 months ago

Yeah, we got a Daikin setup installed by MSP, who work in the Twin Cities metro.

geoff , 5 months ago

I’m skeptical. “Efficiency” could mean a lot of different things, even the the context of memory management. And it’s a weird metric to put forward since as far as I know, RAM is not really what’s holding us back at the moment.

I’m all for experimenting with new OS designs, but I think even Google just gave up their best try at being better than Linux, so I guess it’s not impossible that Huawei has done it, but I think not likely.

geoff , 7 months ago

I’m a happy btrfs user, but it’s most definitely a great thing to see what seems like a really clean implementation like this that is able to learn from the many years of collective experience with ZFS and btrfs.

geoff , 8 months ago

This one is particularly good

geoff , 9 months ago

Automatic upvote for Jeeves.

geoff OP , 10 months ago

This right here is what has made it so flexible for me to reuse salvaged equipment. You can just chuck a bunch of randomly sized drives at it, and it will give you as much storage as it can while guaranteeing you can lose any one drive. Fantastic.

geoff OP , 10 months ago

I’m not sure I know enough to be giving out advice, but I can tell you what I do. I do have a cron job to run scrub, to keep the bitrot away. I also tend to replace my drives proactively when they get REALLY old — the flexibility of btrfs raid1 lets me do that one drive at a time instead of two, making it much more affordable. You can plan out your storage with the btrfs calculator.

geoff OP , 10 months ago

For a software RAID like this, you don’t want a hardware RAID controller, per se – you just want a bunch of ports. After my recent controller failure, I decided to try one of these. It’s slick as hell, sitting close to the motherboard, and seems rock solid so far. We’ll see!

geoff , 10 months ago

This somehow gives me hope for humanity

geoff , 10 months ago

The PowerPC laptops felt absolutely bulletproof in this way — you could yank out a bunch of USB / Firewire cables and slam the lid shut and you just KNEW it would wake up fine every time.

It hasn’t really felt that way to me since the Intel transition. Now that we’re back on Apple silicon…we shall see. I haven’t gotten one yet.

geoff , 11 months ago

A long time ago, when I was broke and decided I couldn’t afford Photoshop, I decided to invest the time in learning GIMP.

Even though I’m a UX professional, and the barely okay UX does bother me, that has turned out to be a wise investment because no matter what, GIMP is always there for me. Always!

The price never goes up. It never gets paywalled by a subscription. It never has shady license changes. It changes slowly and deliberately. I never have to convince a new boss to pay for it. I never have to wonder if it will be available for a project.

That was like 20 years ago. I don’t how much value I’ve gotten out of that initial investment, but I bet it’s a LOT.