Redundancy? storage options for a rpi4? filesystems? raid?
  • SnailMagnitude SnailMagnitude 9mo ago 100%

    Thanks, I do have backups of important stuff.

    I think bcachefs is what I'm looking for, but I'm gonna wait a bit until development calms down a little and keep on the way I am at the moment.

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  • Redundancy? storage options for a rpi4? filesystems? raid?
  • SnailMagnitude SnailMagnitude 9mo ago 100%

    Thanks,

    bcachefs could be the answer but I don't really want my data on a fs I need this week's kernel to access properly. Maybe I should just hold off for a few months.

    I'm not monitoring the drives, I have backups of important stuff...but would be nice to tag more important stuff amongst the mediocre stuff on the off chance both drives don't fail at the same time.

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  • Redundancy? storage options for a rpi4? filesystems? raid?
  • SnailMagnitude SnailMagnitude 9mo ago 100%

    doh

    will just keep on keepin' on then

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  • I have a pi4 running on an ssd over usb3 with a usb3 dock that has 2x2TB drives for storage. At the moment I have mainly music on one and mainly video on the other, with important stuff on both and elsewhere. Is it sensible to combine 2x2TB hdd's via usb3 dock into a 4TB filesystem/pool/volume/thing......and if so can I have tiered storage so if one drive fails the other will have a mirror of important stuff?

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    The bass player in Zbigniew Namysłowski is fucking awesome, first time in a while I've really heard the bass stand out all they way through tunes. Getting knee deep into Mingus at the moment but curious for bass heavy recommendations?

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  • SnailMagnitude SnailMagnitude 9mo ago 100%

    Nice pic, been a few years since I've seen any but always a joy to find ☺️

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  • Rare white gentoo penguin discovered in Antarctica
  • SnailMagnitude SnailMagnitude 9mo ago 100%

    I think that's just one of the official binary penguins that were released last month.

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  • Just say no

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    Vatican says it's permissible for transgender Catholics to be baptized
  • SnailMagnitude SnailMagnitude 12mo ago 100%

    I think that's part of why he is being so careful with language, it's in line with him coming out to say homosexuality is not a crime earlier this year.

    Hopefully this is just paving the way for further change but when the Church holds a lot of power in countries where lgbtq+ people are outlawed and heavily oppressed I can see why he's slowly introducing ideas like it's not against the law and being permissible to baptise.

    I'm no fan of the RCC but if the pope quickly does a full 180 on these issues the church will likely fracture and the countries where things are pretty extreme will break away and, double down on the persecution and allow it to become an identity marker.

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  • YouTube's anti-adblock rollout has finally arrived for Firefox users
  • SnailMagnitude SnailMagnitude 1y ago 100%

    I've been using the 'Open With' extension on Firefox to play video through mpv with a click

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  • Collared Earthstar, new one to me
  • SnailMagnitude SnailMagnitude 1y ago 100%

    picked a random peertube, does this work?

    https://libre.video/videos/watch/94ed06a7-5372-4a1b-ac89-9c3f1eb05fd2

    no pooping, i promise

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  • Collared Earthstar, new one to me
  • SnailMagnitude SnailMagnitude 1y ago 100%

    I don't think popping them was an issue, it was a few hours before the rain hit, they were ready to pop and my son was eager to help them.

    I think the idea is that raindrops hit the mushroom which expels the spores, suspect my son's finger does the job better than the fungi was expecting....but perhaps it would be better to leave them alone.

    Have a few video clips of pooping, but not sure how to post/share them

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  • Collared Earthstar, new one to me
  • SnailMagnitude SnailMagnitude 1y ago 100%

    I'm not aware of any utility, but am a novice.

    I have seen hundreds of puffball mushrooms recently, my son is big fan of popping them, but these are a little different. It looks like an average puffball on a futon that turns into a star.

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  • Seen many puffballs in this area, but never like this. Today they were everywhere. ![](https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/418b22fb-24f0-4a7f-9f9b-1432ce55ca9f.jpeg)

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    ID? Scotland
  • SnailMagnitude SnailMagnitude 1y ago 100%

    Thanks.

    Yeah. It was on the west bank of Loch Lomond, on the forest path with loads of birch all around.

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    Can Anyone Help Me ID This?
  • SnailMagnitude SnailMagnitude 1y ago 100%

    Nice shot.

    No idea about this stuff, hopefully someone knows. Will take a guess on some sort of slime mould.

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  • My first Amanita Muscaria Find
  • SnailMagnitude SnailMagnitude 1y ago 80%

    I am a moron and in no position to give advice but.

    Afaik.

    Ok to touch.

    Traditionally, feed it to your reindeer and drink the reindeer piss. Then you can drink your own piss 6/7 times.

    I've opted for the tea/tincture route and pass on the drinking piss.

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  • Been wanting to get my hands on one of these for a long time. Found three big ones, which was nice 🙂

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    How Much Garden You Would Need to 100% Survive On
  • SnailMagnitude SnailMagnitude 1y ago 100%

    George Miller has a good documentary on this with Tom Hardy which covers stacking stuff if space is tight.

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  • "Just pain and blood and razor burn": The First Month of Weckoning has come and passed; An Analysis of Gore and Announcement of Winner(s)
  • SnailMagnitude SnailMagnitude 1y ago 100%

    What's the deal with these?

    I've used a few cheap disposable straights, or the ones with disposable blades, are these much different to the ones you just snap a DE in half and pop it in?

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    Cold brews?
  • SnailMagnitude SnailMagnitude 1y ago 100%

    Very occasionally Japanese green with a few ice cubes instead of hot water.

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  • Tips on running multiple distros together on my laptop?
  • SnailMagnitude SnailMagnitude 1y ago 100%

    Why?

    Triple booting is a pita, moreso if you don't know how to partition a disk. I'd want any laptop encrypted, which adds further complexity to the triple boot.

    If you wanna browse, research, watch videos and tinker just install a distro. If you wanna spend time switching your system off and on again over and over and over again to find out what's working/broken go for the triple boot.

    Docker could be worth a shot. You can 'docker pull fedora/arch/debina/whatever' and can play around with the base systems. Alpine takes up about 6mib so isn't too resource intensive if you need to nuke it a few hundred times to get up and running.

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  • Weekly Questions Thread (Newbie Friendly) - Sep 04, 2023
  • SnailMagnitude SnailMagnitude 1y ago 100%

    I hone my own. My edges are not on par with pro edges I've used but I'm often a few weeks between shaves and I like it a little forgiving on the flesh. I'm not too fussed about billiard ball smooth

    I only ever sent one razor out for sharpening, it was for some comedy level sharp from someone using Ken Schwartz sub-micron sprays. Glad I tried it, not for me.

    In the first few years I bought maybe ten or more cheap vintage razors from people who seemed to know what they were doing, was a nice way to try different blades and edges.

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  • least unhinged econ researcher
  • SnailMagnitude SnailMagnitude 1y ago 100%

    Good to know, thanks

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  • PSA: When people ask you "What distro should I use?", try pointing them here
  • SnailMagnitude SnailMagnitude 1y ago 100%

    I'd put the 1gb ram laptops to server/kodi/retroarch/something mode and focus on the three decent machines for anything that requires a modern web browser, or add some ram. Porteus might be worth a shot if you've not tried it and want to push the Firefox on a potato idea.

    I don't think this is a one OS fits all situation, unless maybe Gentoo.

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  • Transcoding anything >720p is painful. I run ancient hardware for desktop/laptop >10yrs old apple stuff running linux. I consume media mainly via rpi4 or android. What's a minimum level system capable of trans-coding 4k video to x265 in at the very least real time? Is there a tiny trans-coding device out there somewhere? Would a NUC do? How old or new to churn out 4k x265 Can I avoid hardware? Are cloud gpu's a thing?

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    Dog for scale ![](https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/6756e23d-c265-406c-8018-e9c534921359.jpeg)

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    Will be doing a fresh install on an old laptop in the near future and was considering trying wayland. Can you recommend a decent & light window manager & terminal emulator? I've played around with wayland but always ended up back on xorg, was gonna give it another shot.

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    Glaswegian bugs from David Hamilton

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    I've not come across this packaging before and can't see any trademark. Just wondering if anyone has seen this, nugs ain't too dense either.

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    Spiders SnailMagnitude 1y ago 93%
    ID?

    Current name is Frank the bin spider, but I don't know his family name.

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    Found in UK, not stumbled upon this before.

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    Not had this stuff in many years. A friend brought it back from Japan and told me it was either sencha or hojicha but I think I got lucky. My beloved clay kyusu died some time ago, this is my charity shop backup kyusu. Not a looker but makes a fine cup of Japanese tea.

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    My daughter is starting a college computing course next month and has been told they will be using linux. She has a fairly recent, last 5yrs or less I think, intel macbook but knows nothing about linux or vm's. I advised her to install Ubuntu in a VM when she asked about it, she asked how to do this. Initial thought is Virtualbox but I've not used MacOS since well before it became MacOS nor used VirtualBox in many years, have heard of new shiny new things like UTM, Parallels & VMWare. Is it a reasonable suggestion to just use VirtualBox? Is there a better option? Bit of a dad moment; "Just install Linux and then I can help you", "But how do I install Linux dad?"

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    ![](https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/15ba13ce-fc37-4275-a06b-4204e906e164.jpeg)

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    In my early teens I stumbled upon Charlie Parker, stuff like [Salt Peanuts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGA-w_1N__s) made a big impact. The past decade or so I've been enjoying Pharaoh Sanders, John Gilmour & others......only just stating to really appreciate the genius of John. The past few years Albert Ayler has made me smile even more than Charlie, John (Coltrane or Gilmour), or Pharaoh did with [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v4409U6V6w) & [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z17o7QekxJ0&list=PLfyg_SuY7fELV600e3wJDLjpq2rinfrgi) sorta stuff. I'm a big fan of John Coltrane but the noises Albert makes on his horn seem to often be a wonderful step beyond John. Who are your sax heroes and which tracks do you love and return to?

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    https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/7/6/1228 From Ted, the ext4 maintainer, on the LKML a few days ago. The thread is about mainlining bcachefs but the post from Ted, who from what little I know seems about as trustworthy as ext4 has been over the past few decades, gives an interesting overview of the business approaches to software of IBM, Red Hat, Google & Sun Microsystems. Of general interest to myself but mainly posting as it seems relevant to the recent changes in RHEL, CentOS, Rocky, Alma & Fedora over the past few weeks/years and gives some context of how we got where we are from ~2010.

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