bluGill

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[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 2 weeks ago

Talk to your doctor and read those studies. If you have a heart condition you maybe someone who should start taking it. Or maybe you are amoung those who should never take it. I don't know your exact situation (and I'm not a doctor), I know just enough that I would not be surprised if viaga would be helpful

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Start by diplomatically recognizing Taiwan - Tell both sides that Germany does not recognize the One China policy as something realistic. Then demand the UN bring Taiwan in as a full member (they wouldn't get Veto rights on the security console, but they should be equal to New Zealand in everything) .

Nobody will of course, but the above is the right thing and has been for at least 50 years. (really it has been right since WWII, but at least in the early years we can pretend like reunification was a serious idea)

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago

could be, but this is hard to prove. And then we have ask what about people who wouldn't get Alzheimer's, is there harm from giving them to them? Lots of other questions come up when treating normal people that we can ignore for those who need help. (if this revered Alzheimers but caused death by Cancer in 5 years it is still worth it for those with Alzheimers)

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Viagra was developed as a promising heart disease treatment. In trials the side effects we all know of it for came apparent quickly and so they got it approved for that since it is very easy to prove it is helpful. However there is still good reason to believe that it is helpful for a lot of other things and everyone should take it. What isn't known is if there is anyone who shouldn't take it, what the best dosage is, and lots of other details - but studies are happening and I expect in 10 years it will be a regular treatment for a lot of people who don't care about the side effects.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 5 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

The laws are weird. I've often been called a jerk, but when I check the laws they are on my side - or so ambiguous that nobody really knows what is right even though everyone thinks they do (whatever helps them against everyone else)

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

Changed my family dashboard from magic mirror to a home assistant dashboard. I'm missing some cute things, but the major functions work better, and I get some options that I didn't before.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 0 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, so you don't have pay at the pump and so have to wait in line? I remember those days. The station takes more risk of someone driving off without paying but it mostly works for them. Not pleasant for the customer who is waiting in line behind someone who is trying to decide which lottery ticket to buy or whatever they are being slow on.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I would guess that you have the same thing happen there - you just never noticed/looked at the right time to see those charges. Fuel stations don't want you to fill your tank and then discover you can't afford the fuel, so they have some sort of arrangement with the credit cards to verify that you can afford the fuel before you put it in.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 2 weeks ago

Pilot is a big truck station. I expect it isn't unusual for customers to buy $900 worth of diesel in a single fillup.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 37 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

The US promised to bring this to the UN security console and did. However Russia has veto rights on the UN security console and so this went nowhere.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

RaidZ1 is not the same as a mirror. I'm not sure if you are allowed to have Z1 with only 2 disks, but if you are you still shouldn't because while it scales down that far it still does parity calculations and writes that to the second disk instead of just writing a copy of the data (the parity calculations probably result in the same data, but I doubt this is optimized)

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

ZFS snapshots are easy to settup. If you don't notice that you deleted all the snapshots for a month you never will.

you still should have offsite backups for a fire, but the notion that raid isn't backup is not really correct since for most people the situations that raid with snapshots isn't enough protection will never occure and to the risk is acceptable. Plus raid is a lot easier to get right. For that matter if you have a backup but don't have the password after the fire you don't have a backup.

though if you rely on raid alone I'd want 3 disk redundancy.

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