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JovialSodium

@ JovialSodium @lemmy.sdf.org

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  • ZFS or LUKS/btrfs for my use case

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  • Fine points. And I am considering that simplicity might be worth it. Except for:

    Another fix might be moving towards software that doesn’t require the capacity to reverse updates frequently.

    Totally solid advice, but I love my rolling release distro though. So for the time being I'm willing to accept the associated risk.

  • ZFS or LUKS/btrfs for my use case

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  • Your comment as well as @stupid_asshole69@hexbear.net were really food for thought for me. stupid_asshole69 advising against, and yours as a cautionary tale.

    This would be a complex stack to accomplish my goal. It occurs to me that it'd be mdadm (raid 1) > LUKS > btrfs since btrfs can't do encryption which is right in the middle of that stack, so I couldn't use it's raid 1 functionality. If any of those pieces break, all the protection they would have otherwise provided me goes out the window.

    And I'm not really worried about losing data. I already backup my personal files and most of my configs. The appeal with this kind of setup is the data redundancy and fairly quick recovery. But a partition clone like what saved you also works pretty well for that purpose. I don't know what I'll do just yet, but definitely taking all that in to consideration.

  • ZFS or LUKS/btrfs for my use case

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  • I wasn't familiar with timeshift so I took a look at it. My primary use case for snapshots is to take one before updates. So I can load from the snapshot if there's issues. It doesn't look like using it with ext4 would fulfill this use-case. But it looks like it also supports btrfs snapshots so could be useful as a UI to configure that.

  • ZFS or LUKS/btrfs for my use case

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  • Hearing roughly a decade of successful use, especially on systems with constrained resources, certainly makes me lean further towards btrfs.

    its RAID ≠ 0/1/10 are buggy, but 0/1/10 are considered reliable.

    btrfs has been solid and done everything I could want. It was a huge upgrade from mdadm and lvm

    @ikidd@lemmy.world said that btrfs is poor at software RAID. I'll do a little research in to how it fares for RAID 1 vs mdadm. I don't see any reason I couldn't do mdadm>luks>btrfs if that's the better choice. But if btrfs is reliable and with comparable performance, I'd certainly rather do that.

  • ZFS or LUKS/btrfs for my use case

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  • It’s the shits at software RAID, but that’s rarely a thing on a workstation.

    I am using a RAID 1 mirror over two disks. So that's good to know. I'll do a little research and see if it's better to let mdadm handle that.

    Look at btrfs-assistant for adminstration. That’s what Fedora ships with, I think it uses Snapper in the backend.

    Doesn't look like that's in the void repo. But that's ok, I don't mind learning the command line tools.

  • Can someone get through college on GNU Linux?

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  • I don't know specifically about a medical lab tech program. But I do know about clinical software in general. It is by and large proprietary Widows software. Seems like something you may encounter. But said software could be delivered via Citrix, which does have a Linux client.

  • What is the definition of concurrent vs cumulative?

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  • Thanks for the tip!

  • What is the definition of concurrent vs cumulative?

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  • Edit: I typed out two sets of the same numbers, one in a row, intonating one after the other, and the others in a column in an attempt to impart the idea of all at once.

    My Lemmy client put both on single lines, which is confusing. So I removed the original comment.

  • End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending

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  • Fair point. I dislike competitive multiplayer games. Also why I don't encounter anything with anti-cheat, as that's the primary (maybe only?) type of game it's used for.

    But absolutely an important consideration for those that do like competitive multiplayer.

  • End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending

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  • My personal experience gaming solely on Linux for about two years is a 100% success rate running Windows games. Mind you I don't play anything that has anti-cheat. And maybe 85%-90% without needing to fiddle with anything.

  • Apparently it was in the manual, but I'm just learning it now.

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  • I feel like I was aware of this (much time has passed), but I think it's something we discovered by trying it out of curiosity.

  • Apparently it was in the manual, but I'm just learning it now.

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  • I was aware of this, but I think it's something we discovered by trying it out of curiosity.

  • Modern Auto

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  • How do man-made hiking trails keep the grass from overgrowing the dirt portion of the trail?

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  • I built an office shed in my back yard. Almost all the grass is gone where I walk between the back door and the shed. I do this fairly frequently, but I'd think still quite a bit less than an even lightly trafficked hiking path.

    I'll put some stepping stones out there eventually.

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  • Gross. I didn't know that. I do occasionally use AirBnB. I'm aware of their impact on the rental market, so I favor hotels most of the time. But there have been a few occasions in recent years where I was traveling in a larger group and an AirBnB made more sense. But no more of that.

    I looked in to this a little, and Joe Gebbia is no longer the CEO, but he is still on the board. Still a good enough reason to boycott.

  • I Believe That It's Important For All of Us to Understand What 'Decentralization' Truly Means. Please, Let's Talk About That

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  • Risk is also a factor re: self hosting.

    • You're exposing potential attack vectors, which is particularly concerning if self hosting = home hosting.
    • Also with home hosting, it's probably against your ISP's TOS. It is for mine (I actually read it!). Will they do anything? Probably not. But it's a risk.
    • You could face legal issues if someone posts illegal content, since you're hosting it. Even unwittingly.

    Those concerns are what stop me. Because I otherwise think I'd enjoy hosting a little corner in the fediverse.

  • Why do you use the distro you use?

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  • NixOS is a declarative distro. Meaning it you can declare pretty much every aspect of it from what software is installed to how the system is configured from a config file.

    Using your calandar example, you can list Thunderbird (or whatever) as a package you want in the configuration and it will be installed. You can also use that same configuration on another machine and produce the same environment.

    Relevant to the original point, since all your software is listed in a text file, you can easily see exactly what's installed.

  • Why do you use the distro you use?

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  • Void for desktop/laptop. These are the things I like about it.

    • Rolling release
    • Initial installation is minimal, and doesn't foist a specific DE or other unessential software on me.
    • No systemd
    • Nothing similar to Arch's AUR. I know a lot of people love it, but I do not. I mention as the distros are similar.

    Debian for my server. But I plan to migrate to Devuan.

    • Stable and well tested
    • Huge package selection
    • Pretty ubiquitously supported. If for whatever reason what you want to run isn't in the repo, .deb packages and apt repos are often available.
    • Minimal installation available.

  • Contacts and calendars sync without a server (Syncthing + Radicale)

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  • I'll try this! I used to use caldav via my mail provider with DAVx5, but I had problems with it not retaining notification settings with recurring events.

    I don't know if that's a problem with their caldav server, DAVx5, or my phone's calendar. But worth trying with radicale and see if it works.