Raspberry Pies (is that how you pluralize it?), and especially their SD cards are not the most reliable pieces of hardware. I've already had a few die on me.
I grabbed a le potato with an emmc module a little while back and recently got a rock 3c with an emmc slot. I doubt think I can ever go back to microSD based SBCs. I have a good handful of pis from the first one to the 4. Each one of those has chewed up at least one card until I made a point to buy high quality microsds. They do work quite well if you don't have them reading and writing from the card much, so if it's just running as an appliance it should be able to last a while.
But yeah, I regularly dd my sd cards so I have a backup of a clean setup and a more recent one that I can revert to if I lose a card. Which reminds me, I should probably do that with my pihole, since it's somehow become that one brick keeping my entire network functioning.
Drivers are on the computer, firmware is in the component. Firmware can be updated in both windows and Linux and will affect both systems. Drivers live solely on the OS, so fedora drivers will not be affecting windows. There's an incredibly small chance that your firmware was updated and caused this, but I don't recall a firmware update ever occurring automatically on Linux, I've always had to do it manually.
I kinda wish I liked Mastodon, but I think the very format of Twitter-like social media was a bad idea from the start. Mastodon just feels like the least bad version of it.
I kind of agree, I think it would serve a good purpose as a way to post quick ideas about something but I absolutely don't want to be bombarded by that from everyone and their mother's. I'm just starting on mastodon and micro blogging in general, so I don't have a strong opinion on it yet.
I don’t think humans do well with access to a stream unfiltered, nearly-contextless random thoughts from other people.
Yeah, I'd really like someplace where all the people doing things post about the doing of things, so I can keep up with what's going on and get involved, while also not being subjected to randos posting inane slop. Which I can't see happening while also allowing anyone the opportunity to be heard.
I never had a Twitter account because I felt it was full of just thoughtless statements by people who wanted attention, but I did make a Mastodon account because I do want to get the short random posts by people who are doing the things I'm interested in that Twitter did make popular. I think the barrier of entry for Mastodon is just high enough, and the popularity is low enough that a lot of people who just want attention don't go there, yet.
That's actually a future project for me. I've got plenty of self hosted things going on, so adding one more just adds to the fun. Unfortunately, a lot of the upgrades to my house were done late 80s/early 90s and things I've done the last five years or so. So there's an ungodly number of incompatible light fixtures in this house. Damn led fixtures that you can't replace the light, halogen sconces, florescent tubes, and my favorite, the asshole fixture that has these fittings that currently hosts two 100000k temperature, bright as fuck, lights that I want to die, but not enough to be the fifth fixture I replace in this house.
I'll have you know, I let my bathtub drop for a year before fixing it
I'm sure if they evolved in an environment with electricity, they'd be going from room to room turning off light switches.
...Well if someone else in this damn house would ever turn them off I wouldn't have to now would I?
My step kid literally turned on the kitchen, dining, hallway, and bathroom light after I went to bed and left them on. Cue grumpy ass me turning off lights after my late night pee. The hallway light alone is enough to light up every single one of those rooms for grabbing whatever you need before bed, the switch is five feet from their bedroom and I have a switch in my bedroom for it as well. So of course that couldn't be the only light left on. Rant over
Seven-of-nine (I think), I watched season 1, maybe season 2. I feel like I only watched two or three episodes and the rest of that time is lost to the universe, so I'm not even entirely sure what I watched.
there's a vital role just in having an advocate for the team present in "management."
As a bench level employee, every time I'm asked how long something will take I have to take time to assess where I'm at, what needs doing, and when people in other departments will be able to get to their portion of the project (answer: fuck if I know), which takes even more time away from the project. Then I have to go back and figure out where I was and what I was doing on the project that I was working on. I'm typically on three or so projects at a time in various stages of complete, with one or two waiting in the wings. When you have a different person every day asking you about a different project than the one you're working on at that exact moment, it seriously slows things down.
Our project managers are salespeople, they over promise our capabilities, mostly because they don't even know what we can do, and disappear the moment a contract is signed. Leaving it up to the employees who actually do the work to meet impossible expectations.
There's been a few good project managers who get involved and check in on things, but there's only been one (out of a dozen+ or so) in my 7 years working here who's actually asked us what we can do and how long things take before taking in contacts. I'm sure they, or at least that kind of approach, will not last very long.
Mine is raspberry pi zero 2w with an external enclosure attached to solar+battery. Wi-Fi is barely consistent enough for speeds around 1/4 what they should be. I'm still working out the kinks, but thanks be to FSM for rsync and snapshots, otherwise my backup scheme would probably never be able to finish.
Agreed, I just spent a week (very intermittently) trying to figure out where all my free space had gone, turns out it was a bunch of abandoned docker volumes taking up. I have 32gb on my laptop, so space is at an absolute premium.
I guess I learned my lesson about trying out docker containers on my laptop just to check them out.
I agree, there's a place for flatpaks and appimages, but for the most part my computer isn't it. If I was setting it up as more of an appliance or as a work computer in a fleet of devices, sure they'd be great. I installed VLC in it's flatpak form on accident once and it was worthless because the entire reason I installed it was to watch either a DVD or Blu-ray, and it didn't have the libraries to read the disc. It took me far longer than I'm willing to admit to figure out it was because flatpak. I'm sure there's a way to work around that, but at that point I was done with any flatpaks for anything that might need additional anything.
They do cut down on needing multiple versions of the same package, so I'll sometimes install the flatpak version to try something out if I'm not sure it's what I want.
It was and forever will be wild to me the effort they went to to make the enterprise so elegant, then the first episodes consisted of Q sitting on a forklift, the "guards" wearing ski outfits and the other costumes seemingly being dug out of a Willow reject costume chest they found out back.
I guess they spent all their costume budget on the gender neutral skirts skants
I'm doing a 5-4-3-2-1 method. 5 backups. 4 on-site. 3 attached to one machine, 2 of those are on separate external usb drives synced at different intervals. 1 in the shed.
I grabbed a le potato with an emmc module a little while back and recently got a rock 3c with an emmc slot. I doubt think I can ever go back to microSD based SBCs. I have a good handful of pis from the first one to the 4. Each one of those has chewed up at least one card until I made a point to buy high quality microsds. They do work quite well if you don't have them reading and writing from the card much, so if it's just running as an appliance it should be able to last a while.
But yeah, I regularly dd my sd cards so I have a backup of a clean setup and a more recent one that I can revert to if I lose a card. Which reminds me, I should probably do that with my pihole, since it's somehow become that one brick keeping my entire network functioning.