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folkrav

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  • Why didn't Rugby take off in the Indian subcontinent?

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  • I’d say football has that unique advantage that it can be played basically anywhere with anything somewhat ball shaped and bouncy. One of the most accessible sports out there. Barely any equipment required to be able to play it.

  • What's something small you achieved recently that you're proud of?

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  • That’s big!

  • Yay orphaned packages

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  • Different digital world views

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  • Yeah, I’m no graphic designer but the fediverse logo looks like a nightmare to render at small sizes, which is what designers are looking for in a logo, typically - something that is easy to recognize, tells something about the product, and scales well at all sizes, from favicon to building sized ad. I like that it conveys its own meaning really well, but it’s also extremely busy. So many crossing lines in such a small space just looks like a garbled mess at small sizes. Take this image and scale it down to 16x16px, you can see what I mean.

  • New Unraid OS License Pricing, Timeline, and FAQs

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  • There are cheap NASes/home servers to be bought/built for a couple hundred bucks, with very limited RAM, while TrueNAS recommends 8GB minimum. It’s also often much cheaper to have the option to buy mismatched drives on sale and expand your storage over time, than having to buy matched drives, and having to plan long term for potential expansion of else have to replace a whole set of drives at once if you need more. But fair enough, yes.

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  • The incentive is still there, it just presents itself differently. Nothing prevents them from withholding major changes so they happen every 13 months either. If anything, I would at least expect yearly major versions to have large changes, while they can technically do whatever they want during the year I pay for, including not pushing any updates whatsoever.

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  • One time purchases are not a sustainable income source for long living and updated software products like unraid.

    I’m always left scratching my head every time I hear this line. Software subscriptions are a relatively new trend. The majority of software has been single-purchase until then over the last handful of decades. Why did it suddenly stop being sustainable to do so?

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  • It’s the same model JetBrains has for their IDEs. You pay for a year, you get a perpetual fallback license. You pay again, get another year of updates.

    JetBrains (accurately) still calls it a subscription though.

  • New Unraid OS License Pricing, Timeline, and FAQs

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  • I don’t have half the world’s RAM to give to ZFS on my budget NAS tho, and Unraid allows mismatched drive sizes, which is pretty attractive to budget users. TrueNAS is definitely great though.

  • RAID or single drive for backups?

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  • Unraid’s “killer feature” is the ability to mix and match disparate drive sizes and only requiring the parity drive to be at least as large as your largest data disk, a la MergeFS/Snapraid. Also ZFS chugging RAM like there’s no tomorrow so not really an option for underpowered devices like some NASes. But yeah, TrueNAS is nice.

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  • I get your point, but if it’s just about semantics, why would they be so defensive about it not being one?

  • New Unraid OS License Pricing, Timeline, and FAQs

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  • New Unraid OS License Pricing, Timeline, and FAQs

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  • They have all the right in the world to do so, but I have a lot of trouble with them insisting that this is “not a subscription”. Let’s call a spade a spade. It’s a subscription to get updates, with a perpetual fallback license. The only difference with JetBrains’ model, which offers the same for their IDEs (which everyone calls subscriptions, themselves included), is that Unraid still offer a lifetime tier on top. But the lower tiers absolutely are subscriptions. If it was really a “version upgrade” thing, they’d tie the payment to major versions, not a time period. It’s a time based payment in which you get something in exchange during the payment period, therefore, a subscription. The word may have connotations for them to want to avoid it so much, I won’t pretend it’s not what it is…

    Otherwise, for what I actually use Unraid for, they just put themselves out of my price range and it probably won’t be my next NAS’ OS. Outside the “use any disk size” RAID-like solution, there isn’t much keeping me on the OS, and I guess I can deal with setting up MergeFS/Snapraid…

  • What are developers in different languages known as?

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  • Is it pronounced “eleph pants”?

  • What are developers in different languages known as?

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  • Ah, yeah, I knew that at one point. I find recursive acronyms so tacky I tend to tune that information out lol.

  • What are developers in different languages known as?

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  • I don’t know know you’re talking $$$$$about

  • Introducing GNOME 46, “Kathmandu”

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  • KDE6 took a week or so, didn’t it?

  • What are developers in different languages known as?

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  • C could be “C-Men”

    Has a nice ring to it

  • What are developers in different languages known as?

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  • I know Go has gophers