ky56

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[–] ky56@aussie.zone 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't Windows 10 already do that? I could never get the freaking thing to leave my files behind and disable itself.

Windows 10 LTSC for the win if you have software you can't yet abandon.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago

Isn't the Banana Pi R64/R3/R4 close enough to that?

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

FYI the open source OpenWRT based Banana Pi R3 AX 4x4 is a thing. Don't buy closed source Routers/APs on purpose.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 36 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Every time someone writes x.com I immediately think they're talking about a porn site. What a shit rebrand. Or what a perfect name I guess?

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My solution is RAIDZ5 and storing the backup on LTO6 tape with parity/erasure code. I think the fact that scrub times take 24 hours even on 16TB drives is already over the safety margin. If a drive failure happens, the first thing I'll do to run a manual diff backup which should take a fraction of the time and then run the ZFS resilver.

I'm beginning to see why SSD RAID is being considered now. My guess for HDDs in enterprise is that a RAID 15 (I made this up) would be considered. What I mean is data is stored on two identical servers each running RAID5 or 6. Off the shelf solutions like Gluster exist and that seems to be gaining traction at least according to Linus Tech Tips.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 8 points 6 months ago

If your computer is incapable of even running Ubuntu. Then I don't think it's worth using.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 34 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Cool. So you can no longer turn your phone off.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You know what's funny. I was investigating the hardware datasheets for the PinePhone and looking at the RTC module and just like PC RTC chips there is an option to trigger an interrupt/power on when a certain time is met. That means that there appears to be no reason this couldn't be a current feature on probably all modern smartphones. Just lack of software support.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You would surprised how much control a fearmongering narcissist can have over you. And I'd argue, most christian conservative are narcissists.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah. All the cool kids are doing it. Like Tom Cruise.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 2 points 6 months ago

There is one on the Wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-RAM

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/DVD-RAM_FUJIFILM_disc_removable_without_cartridge_locking_pin.jpg

Due to the caddy nature I believe there were plans or limited availability of double-sided disks. That would have made it so much more appealing I think.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yea but the tape is likely to last the 20-30 year estimate. You couldn't say the same about HDDs especially the helium sealed ones.

Whether the tape drive will survive as well is another question but between the simpler mechanism, a drive 2 generations ahead can still read the tape, parts inter-compatibility if you needed to frankenstein an older drive with new rollers and motors and just plain buying and keeping drives sealed in storage as new-old-stock ahead of time. You have a few options to choose from.

Where as with HDDs you may have to repair each one. The helium ones you may have to re-gas.

Tape sounds like a better long term archival/backup approach.

 

Newegg seems to be no longer offering free over ~$380 World EggSaver Standard to Australia? Can anyone else confirm this?

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