ky56

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

And I was worried that it was the Australian Governments Digital ID shit that would be what gets in my way. You know what reddit, just do it. It would be the kick I need to completely drop reddit.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's hard to tell sometimes. Especially when it's such a sensitive issue where normies will parrot the same ignorant crap over and over again. I one went off on someone, not even considering it was in-jest, because is was so convincingly written.

The /s is important people. I know it slightly reduces the impact of the joke but some people believe that shit 110%.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago

Congratulations.

How does/can Australia stop the Under 16 Social Media ban? I suspect that this is the first step of many to undermine Australians.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Not really. Even TrueNAS Core (ZFS) highly recommends ECC memory to mitigate this possibility from occurring. After reading more about filesystems in general and when money allowed, I took this advice as gospel when upgrading my server from junk I found laying around to a proper Supermicro ATX server mobo.

The difference I think is that BRTFS is more vulnerable to becoming unmountable whereas other filesystems have a better chance of still being mountable but contain missing or corrupted data. The latter usually being preferable.

For desktop use some people don't recommend ZFS as if the right memory corruption conditions are met, it can eat your data as well. It's why Linus Torvalds goes on a rant every now and then about how bullshit it is that Intel normalized paywalling ECC memory to servers only.

I disagree and think the benefits of ZFS on a desktop without ECC outweigh a rare possibility that can be mitigated with backups.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Banana Pi R3 or R64 (OpenWRT). Some DIY assembly required but it will probably last you over a decade.

My favorite part about these is that they are unbrickable. There is no bootloader to permanently corrupt as the firmware that loads the flash chip is in mask memory and the firmware you load from OpenWRT is the bootloader + firmware. So even if the flash chip dies you can use the other flash chip on the board or with soldering skills replace it and re-flash it.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 3 points 8 months ago

Hopefully this means coreboot support finally.

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 13 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 15 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

 

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

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