traches

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[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 2 points 55 minutes ago (4 children)

I haven’t done this recently enough to guide you on the details, but step zero is to decide whether you are certain you want to dual boot or not. It adds a lot of complexity and brittleness that is best avoided if at all possible.

  • Try to find Linux compatible replacements for the software you need.
  • if that doesn’t exist, see if you can run it on Linux with wine.
  • If that isn’t possible, consider running windows inside a virtual machine on Linux.
  • If you do want honest, bare-metal windows then using two different physical drives will be easier and more reliable. Ideally your laptop has room for two drives, otherwise you can dangle a USB SSD (not a flash drive). Windows won’t install to a USB drive but Linux doesn’t care.
[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, I tried it but that experience isn’t as good as a native app. No swipe gestures, and an extremely basic UI

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Miniflux has served me very well for years, combined with a few different apps. Reeder on iOS, I can’t remember what I used on android but there were plenty of options

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Tractor pulls

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Reminds me of outer wilds

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

It’s the only time normies encounter the word.

How do you feel about crypto?

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 45 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

They don’t have to, algorithms do whatever they are designed to do. Long division is an algorithm.

Profit motives are the issue here.

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Season 2 gave us avatar Wan, which was great

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

H model C-130s, the ones with the 4 square blade props? The engines and props are mechanically governed. There are electronic corrections applied, but the core of the systems are purely mechanical. Still flying.

Source: former flight engineer on them.

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Agreed. OP was doing well until they replaced the if statements with ‚function call || throw error’. That’s still an if statement, but obfuscated.

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Software & Services:

Destinations:

  • Local raspberry pi with external hdd, running restic REST server
  • RAID 1 NAS at parents' house, connected via tailscale, also running restic REST

I've been meaning to set up a drive rotation for the local backup so I always have one offline in case of ransomware, but I haven't gotten to it.

Edit: For the backup set I back up pretty much everything. I'm not paying per gig, though.

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

iPhone 3G. I’ll never forget the day I put the internet in my pocket

 

I have a load-bearing raspberry pi on my network - it runs a DNS server, zigbee2mqtt, unifi controller, and a restic rest server. This raspberry pi, as is tradition, boots from a microSD card. As we all know, microSD cards suck a little bit and die pretty often; I've personally had this happen not all that long ago.

I'd like to keep a reasonably up-to-date hot spare ready, so when it does give up the ghost I can just swap them out and move on with my life. I can think of a few ways to accomplish this, but I'm not really sure what's the best:

  • The simplest is probably cron + dd, but I'm worried about filesystem corruption from imaging a running system and could this also wear out the spare card?
  • recreate partition structure, create an fstab with new UUIDs, rsync everything else. Backups are incremental and we won't get filesystem corruption, but we still aren't taking a point-in-time backup which means data files could be inconsistent with each other. (honestly unlikely with the services I'm running.)
  • Migrate to BTRFS or ZFS, send/receive snapshots. This would be annoying to set up because I'd need to switch the rpi's filesystem, but once done I think this might be the best option? We get incremental updates, point-in-time backups, and even rollback on the original card if I want it.

I'm thinking out loud a little bit here, but do y'all have any thoughts? I think I'm leaning towards ZFS or BTRFS.

 

Not sure about the artist, sorry

 
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