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Redundancy? storage options for a rpi4? filesystems? raid?
  • Thanks, I do have backups of important stuff.

    I think bcachefs is what I'm looking for, but I'm gonna wait a bit until development calms down a little and keep on the way I am at the moment.

  • Redundancy? storage options for a rpi4? filesystems? raid?
  • Thanks,

    bcachefs could be the answer but I don't really want my data on a fs I need this week's kernel to access properly. Maybe I should just hold off for a few months.

    I'm not monitoring the drives, I have backups of important stuff...but would be nice to tag more important stuff amongst the mediocre stuff on the off chance both drives don't fail at the same time.

  • Redundancy? storage options for a rpi4? filesystems? raid?
  • doh

    will just keep on keepin' on then

  • Redundancy? storage options for a rpi4? filesystems? raid?

    I have a pi4 running on an ssd over usb3 with a usb3 dock that has 2x2TB drives for storage.

    At the moment I have mainly music on one and mainly video on the other, with important stuff on both and elsewhere.

    Is it sensible to combine 2x2TB hdd's via usb3 dock into a 4TB filesystem/pool/volume/thing......and if so can I have tiered storage so if one drive fails the other will have a mirror of important stuff?

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    I need bass!

    The bass player in Zbigniew Namysłowski is fucking awesome, first time in a while I've really heard the bass stand out all they way through tunes.

    Getting knee deep into Mingus at the moment but

    curious for bass heavy recommendations?

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    Debbie Harry & H R Giger - Now I Know You Know

    I did not know about this.

    I like H R Giger, I like Debbie Harry.

    How did it take 'till 2024 for me to stumble upon this?

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    Not quite a fungus but a result of one
  • Nice pic, been a few years since I've seen any but always a joy to find ☺️

  • Vatican says it's permissible for transgender Catholics to be baptized
  • I think that's part of why he is being so careful with language, it's in line with him coming out to say homosexuality is not a crime earlier this year.

    Hopefully this is just paving the way for further change but when the Church holds a lot of power in countries where lgbtq+ people are outlawed and heavily oppressed I can see why he's slowly introducing ideas like it's not against the law and being permissible to baptise.

    I'm no fan of the RCC but if the pope quickly does a full 180 on these issues the church will likely fracture and the countries where things are pretty extreme will break away and, double down on the persecution and allow it to become an identity marker.

  • YouTube's anti-adblock rollout has finally arrived for Firefox users
  • I've been using the 'Open With' extension on Firefox to play video through mpv with a click

  • Collared Earthstar, new one to me
  • picked a random peertube, does this work?

    https://libre.video/videos/watch/94ed06a7-5372-4a1b-ac89-9c3f1eb05fd2

    no pooping, i promise

  • Collared Earthstar, new one to me
  • I don't think popping them was an issue, it was a few hours before the rain hit, they were ready to pop and my son was eager to help them.

    I think the idea is that raindrops hit the mushroom which expels the spores, suspect my son's finger does the job better than the fungi was expecting....but perhaps it would be better to leave them alone.

    Have a few video clips of pooping, but not sure how to post/share them

  • Collared Earthstar, new one to me
  • I'm not aware of any utility, but am a novice.

    I have seen hundreds of puffball mushrooms recently, my son is big fan of popping them, but these are a little different. It looks like an average puffball on a futon that turns into a star.

  • Collared Earthstar, new one to me

    Seen many puffballs in this area, but never like this. Today they were everywhere. !

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    ID? Scotland
  • Thanks.

    Yeah. It was on the west bank of Loch Lomond, on the forest path with loads of birch all around.

  • Can Anyone Help Me ID This?
  • Nice shot.

    No idea about this stuff, hopefully someone knows. Will take a guess on some sort of slime mould.

  • My first Amanita Muscaria Find
  • I am a moron and in no position to give advice but.

    Afaik.

    Ok to touch.

    Traditionally, feed it to your reindeer and drink the reindeer piss. Then you can drink your own piss 6/7 times.

    I've opted for the tea/tincture route and pass on the drinking piss.

  • My first Amanita Muscaria Find

    Been wanting to get my hands on one of these for a long time.

    Found three big ones, which was nice 🙂

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    "Just pain and blood and razor burn": The First Month of Weckoning has come and passed; An Analysis of Gore and Announcement of Winner(s)
  • What's the deal with these?

    I've used a few cheap disposable straights, or the ones with disposable blades, are these much different to the ones you just snap a DE in half and pop it in?

  • Tips on running multiple distros together on my laptop?
  • Why?

    Triple booting is a pita, moreso if you don't know how to partition a disk. I'd want any laptop encrypted, which adds further complexity to the triple boot.

    If you wanna browse, research, watch videos and tinker just install a distro. If you wanna spend time switching your system off and on again over and over and over again to find out what's working/broken go for the triple boot.

    Docker could be worth a shot. You can 'docker pull fedora/arch/debina/whatever' and can play around with the base systems. Alpine takes up about 6mib so isn't too resource intensive if you need to nuke it a few hundred times to get up and running.

  • Weekly Questions Thread (Newbie Friendly) - Sep 04, 2023
  • I hone my own. My edges are not on par with pro edges I've used but I'm often a few weeks between shaves and I like it a little forgiving on the flesh. I'm not too fussed about billiard ball smooth

    I only ever sent one razor out for sharpening, it was for some comedy level sharp from someone using Ken Schwartz sub-micron sprays. Glad I tried it, not for me.

    In the first few years I bought maybe ten or more cheap vintage razors from people who seemed to know what they were doing, was a nice way to try different blades and edges.

  • least unhinged econ researcher
  • Good to know, thanks

  • PSA: When people ask you "What distro should I use?", try pointing them here
  • I'd put the 1gb ram laptops to server/kodi/retroarch/something mode and focus on the three decent machines for anything that requires a modern web browser, or add some ram. Porteus might be worth a shot if you've not tried it and want to push the Firefox on a potato idea.

    I don't think this is a one OS fits all situation, unless maybe Gentoo.

  • PSA: When people ask you "What distro should I use?", try pointing them here
  • How bad is really bad?

    AntiX is a good choice. Other option is a usb3 drive for each family member so everyone has their own portable AntiX on a stick.

    MX is the related project with a more standard install and could be worth a look, the Fluxbox option should be quite light.

    Each user could have a personal AntiX system on persistent usb3 and each system could have a bare metal MX Linux install. Just see what wins out via natural selection over time.

    LXQT is another option for a full desktop environment that will run on a potato. If family members are mainly just users and you are admin, the base OS may not matter much. They could switch between a potato running Alpine and a good system running Fedora and if they are just logging into LXQT to launch browser, office, email etc the internal system plumbing is not gonna concern them.

  • How do I convert my videos to h265 without melting my current, shit, hardware

    Transcoding anything >720p is painful.

    I run ancient hardware for desktop/laptop >10yrs old apple stuff running linux. I consume media mainly via rpi4 or android.

    What's a minimum level system capable of trans-coding 4k video to x265 in at the very least real time? Is there a tiny trans-coding device out there somewhere?

    Would a NUC do? How old or new to churn out 4k x265

    Can I avoid hardware? Are cloud gpu's a thing?

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    Minimal Wayland Software?

    Will be doing a fresh install on an old laptop in the near future and was considering trying wayland.

    Can you recommend a decent & light window manager & terminal emulator?

    I've played around with wayland but always ended up back on xorg, was gonna give it another shot.

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    Wee Mad Beasties
    www.bbc.co.uk Incredible photos of 'wee beasties' in Glasgow park

    How lockdown helped David Hamilton discover his love for macro photography in a local park.

    Incredible photos of 'wee beasties' in Glasgow park

    Glaswegian bugs from David Hamilton

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    Legit Cali?

    I've not come across this packaging before and can't see any trademark.

    Just wondering if anyone has seen this, nugs ain't too dense either.

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    ID?

    Current name is Frank the bin spider, but I don't know his family name.

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    What is this?

    Found in UK, not stumbled upon this before.

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    Best way to run a Linux VM(s) on intel MacOS?

    My daughter is starting a college computing course next month and has been told they will be using linux.

    She has a fairly recent, last 5yrs or less I think, intel macbook but knows nothing about linux or vm's.

    I advised her to install Ubuntu in a VM when she asked about it, she asked how to do this. Initial thought is Virtualbox but I've not used MacOS since well before it became MacOS nor used VirtualBox in many years, have heard of new shiny new things like UTM, Parallels & VMWare.

    Is it a reasonable suggestion to just use VirtualBox? Is there a better option?

    Bit of a dad moment; "Just install Linux and then I can help you", "But how do I install Linux dad?"

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    Best Saxophone tracks?

    In my early teens I stumbled upon Charlie Parker, stuff like Salt Peanuts made a big impact.

    The past decade or so I've been enjoying Pharaoh Sanders, John Gilmour & others......only just stating to really appreciate the genius of John.

    The past few years Albert Ayler has made me smile even more than Charlie, John (Coltrane or Gilmour), or Pharaoh did with this & this sorta stuff.

    I'm a big fan of John Coltrane but the noises Albert makes on his horn seem to often be a wonderful step beyond John.

    Who are your sax heroes and which tracks do you love and return to?

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    Ted Tso gives some insight on the LKML on the Red Hat & IBM approach to software

    https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/7/6/1228

    From Ted, the ext4 maintainer, on the LKML a few days ago.

    The thread is about mainlining bcachefs but the post from Ted, who from what little I know seems about as trustworthy as ext4 has been over the past few decades, gives an interesting overview of the business approaches to software of IBM, Red Hat, Google & Sun Microsystems.

    Of general interest to myself but mainly posting as it seems relevant to the recent changes in RHEL, CentOS, Rocky, Alma & Fedora over the past few weeks/years and gives some context of how we got where we are from ~2010.

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