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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparent issues with ZFS on RPi 5⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  ARC is the in-memory cache used by ZFS. If it’s completely off the effect can be dramatic. Under no circumstances should a larger cache cause anything to get slower, ever. Even the raspi didn’t have memory that is that slow that this is a reasonable outcome.

  As a concrete example: I was recently working on a server where a maintenance task that should take like 12hrs or so at the worst somehow took 2 weeks (!) and still wasn’t finished. That was ARC being disabled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparent issues with ZFS on RPi 5⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  What size is the ARC set to? I’ve seen cases where it was fully disabled, which seemed to murder performance and is probably even worse when in such a CPU limited platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the magic diet for no-wipe poops?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, sorry. Turns out it was a different person posting this, and I had somehow assumed it was the same person replying, my bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the magic diet for no-wipe poops?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So it clearly has nothing to do with the spiciness, and just with whatever your digestive system doesn’t like about jalapeños (or them being pickled). Why would you agree that spicy food is relevant here when it clearly isn’t?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I tried living entirely on IPv6 for a day, and here's what happened⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I really wish I could run ipv6 only at home, but due to a variety of factors, I just can’t. Lacking support for it is actually the least of my problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rough draft NAS is complete!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ZFS, specifically RaidZx, can be expanded like and raid 5/6 these days, assuming support from the distro (works with TrueNAS for example). The patches for this have been merged years ago now. Expanding any other array (like a striped mirror) is even simpler and is done by adding VDevs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LIMBO and INSIDE are being delisted from GOG on July 17th⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s just say I also don’t play platformers, basically ever. It was fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LIMBO and INSIDE are being delisted from GOG on July 17th⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t played inside, but limbo is absolutely fantastic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as analogies go, is pet far off. It doesn’t hold even for basic behaviors of the two cases, let alone complex ones. A better analogy would be that you buy a (small) car that always happens to come with an included, free trailer for more cargo capacity. You can of course take it off and have a small car. And it’s also as magic trailer that doesn’t take up any space at all when not in use.

  I’m actually not a fan, an am also using it somewhat reluctantly personally, though self hosted. I’ve had my issues with it, but an still using it because it solves some issues that are much harder to solve without it. I’m not using the contacts/calendar functionality.

  But your original statement was that you couldn’t understand who would need calendar and contacts (in their file sharing app). There’s enough I object to in this statement that I wrote my comment. First of, in this context, specifically in their article/blog/whatever, it’s about nextcloud as a whole, not the fact that it can do file sharing. That’s what it evolved from, but not all it is any more, more better or worse. Secondly, it’s about an advertised alternative to O365, which includes the very common and almost universal requirement for teams (be it a company, family, …) to have events (=calendar) like schedule meetings with people (=contacts). Even if you work with just like 5 people you are probably gonna need that. There you probably want to share files, but probably more so it’s about the office functionality and collaborative, simultaneous editing of files. Obviously replacing Word, PowerPoint, Excel. And yes, Outlook (calendar,& contacts, also email).

  This isn’t meant for individuals who need a few GB to store some files. It’s for teams of some description that need office like, cloud based tools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your analogy doesn’t make any sense, so I assume you really don’t know. So let me explain:

  If you buy a 4wd, it’s always a 4wd, usually that means s relatively large vehicle. You might be able to turn it to 2wd, but it doesn’t make the car smaller. If you just needed a tiny car in all (or most cases), you can’t push a button to make it smaller. You always drive around the extra equipment to possibly make it 4wd.

  Nextcloud is plugin based. Assuming this isn’t locked away on an instance like this, you can literally push a button and make that whole functionality go away everywhere. You can fully remove that ‘clutter’, if that’s of no use to you. They are offering it always, as it adds no additional effort on the hosters side: they don’t need to add gear boxes or whatever to make it have calendar & contacts. If you don’t want/need it, turn it off and it’s gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who ever wanted a file sync platform that also does calendaring and contacts?

  Most O365 & exchange users? If you just want file sync, this isn’t for you. If you want a collaborative (online) office suite that can also sync files, it is. It’s meant to be able to replace the whole O365 stack, which includes Outlook.

  You can also just not use that part, or any part you don’t need. This is basic NC functionality that has been there for a very long time, so why shouldn’t it be part of the package?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denmark Switches from Microsoft to LibreOffice and Linux⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is like the 3rd or 4th time this (mis)information is posted, and has to be corrected in comments. There’s a very large discrepancy between “all of Denmark” and "this one tiny ministry in Denmark. Journalism really has just become “how to out-clickbait others, no matter if objectively false”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lime bikes dumped in canals and rivers 'posing pollution risk'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in the EU. The violations of Google and Amazon I mentioned also happened in the EU. Feel free to look up the repercussions on those. Having rules is irrelevant if there is no way to actually enforce them, or at least verify them. It would be doable (maybe not quite “easy”) to have that verifiable, but there is no system or law in place for it as it stands right now.

  You can trust them companies that would put surveillance equipment like that in their stuff to not abuse it, that’s your call. I just won’t use it. In quite a few EU countries this wouldn’t be allowed anyway, btw. At least not with current laws in regards to video recording in and around traffic. For example dash cams are still not fully legal in Germany, and only very limited recording (and storing) of footage is permitted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lime bikes dumped in canals and rivers 'posing pollution risk'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes totally. I would trust any company to always do this the right way. And there would never be an incident where some footage gets leaked, or passed around the office. “Oops there must have been a malfunction”.

  Yes like Amazon AND Google haven’t been caught saving private conversations that their voice assistants recorded totally unintentionally even though they weren’t triggered. They did totally say “sorry” and won’t do it again, ever. Right? Right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lime bikes dumped in canals and rivers 'posing pollution risk'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds nice until you think about the implications for everyone that doesn’t vandalize or destroy these bikes. I’m most certainly not going to rent one if it has 360° surveillance capabilities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG summer sale is live⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  … and Amazon games. People who have or had prime accounts often have large amounts of free games on there from claiming them in the past (often via twitch).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voting in the threadiverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That also means you can’t downvote just wrong information anymore. Look at YouTube, which disabled down votes and nothing got better. And their votes weren’t even public.

  I think that’s a terrible idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patreon plans to consolidate its Pro and Premium plans starting August 5, taking a 10% commission, rather than the current 8% for Pro and 12% for Premium users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They took very large sums of money from venture capital firms. As in many millions. Those now require constant and perpetual number-go-up. This won’t stop getting worse, let alone get better. There are other services. If you’re a creator, use them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  WotC did some shady shit before, too. Certainly right improve since the acquisition though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bambu Lab Controversy Deepens: Firmware Update Sparks Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  While I agree with the most valuable users statement, I can’t imagine that is how they see it. Or that they even should realistically care from a purely financial standpoint. Most users buy their printers and just use them with whatever software came with them. And most of those didn’t even watch or read reviews. Or worse: they did, and possibly heard about the firmware and online thing and just didn’t care.

  I disagree with your second part though. Voron is only relevant for the complete opposite end of the spectrum. People who are multi-discipline tinkerers (electronics, hardware, …) and capable and interested in building their own printer. Actual overlap with all Bambu customers is probably sub-1%. The commercial printers that are Voron-adjacent (inspired by or based on the design in some way) still have a different demographic and severely lack in software polish and especially out of the box experience. It isn’t remotely close. Even if they innovated over night and made it even with Bambu, there is nothing that would cause that to be actually relevant in the market without millions in marketing. They might be able to gain momentum, but only slowly and I highly doubt they can catch up to Bambu momentum even in years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bambu Lab Controversy Deepens: Firmware Update Sparks Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also the only way they have to act against the change, which might cause enough users to protest, which might (temporarily) get Bambu to back out. Or delay at least. Probably not, but again it’s their only option.

  If they go along with it, the users that could or would proper will just use Orca until inevitably Bambu also removes that possibility, then everyone is fucked anyway.

  What percentage of Bambu users are using Orca? Single digit percentage? Maybe barely double digit? It’s probably not gonna change anything in the end. Clearly this has always been their plan.

  I always thought their entire product strategy was clearly designed to be an eventually rug pull just like this, which is why I never got one. Other people that care about fully owning and controlling their devices probably didn’t either, or that number might be higher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨40,000 Security Cameras Found Compromised Online.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t remember when it came into effect, but randomized device specific passwords are also mandatory in the EU now. This was relatively recently though. It means they single device (item, not model type or class) has to have an individual password (also usually it’s on a sticker or something).

  And yes, connecting any ip camera to the Internet is just dumb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 2 is free to claim on Steam for the next two days⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No of course not, but if it’s run under proton/wine it doesn’t even have access to any normal files. When it’s run natively it does (documents and all that). I’m not saying it’s doing anything with this, or even that it would make sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 2 is free to claim on Steam for the next two days⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not in general. Typically, games with kernel level drm or anticheat just didn’t work at all.

  Borderlands 2 specifically has a native Linux version though, and it may or may not abuse this fact. It isn’t run in a sandbox-like environment like Windows games that run through proton, but according to protondb it does run through proton? In any case yes, it’s probably better than running it on Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Definitive Guide to Steam Play Tools⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This comes at the perfect time. I was thinking I’d have to find out how to run modloaders or managers on Linux, but I guess I got my answer right here. Thanks for posting!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA rebrand and refresh their anti-cheat into EA Javelin Anticheat, still blocks Linux / Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With my backlog of games I have, but never played, I really find it hard to care. I’m not running out of games. Keep piling on reasons for never buying your games. So I won’t. Not my loss.

  Eventually it’ll be enough reasons for enough people that they’ll notice. Guessing it isn’t that time yet though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No Linux support though, which is a bummer these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to build a Mini ITX PC for my home server, where do I start?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree with those saying that you can’t do a build for that budget, but I would suggest looking into used parts, at least for some things, to improve the result significantly.

  Since your system goal doesn’t seem to be storage related, as nextcloud includes storage obviously, but typically isn’t used to house multi-terabyte data sets. So assuming you can make that work for the “future homelab projects” to with dual 500gig NVME as storage. Search for a used mITX board+CPU that can accommodate that (has the slots), and go from there. Things like CPU cooler, if not part of a possible mainboard+CPU bundle, should be selected after the case at that is the limiting factor for it. Didn’t skimp on RAM size if you can (new or used is fine, depends what you can get in your area).

  With this list you’re basically done to get it up and running.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities Skylines 2, Kerbal Space 2, Planet Coaster 2, Frostpunk 2... What Went Wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean for ksp2 saying it failed cause they had “no experience with this kind of work” is kind of weird, since neither did the ksp1 devs when they started that. And they didn’t fuck it up either, let alone this badly. Remember that it was a passion project of harvester, working at a PR firm that just happened to let him do it under their roof and employment. The company did not even have any basic experience in game development, arguably even software development in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ZimaBoard 2 is a single-board server with Intel N150, dual SATA interfaces, and two 2.5 GbE LAN ports - Liliputing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally! I was waiting for a version of the original zimaboard with a modern/competitive processor. Such a versatile little device.