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IronKrill

@ IronKrill @lemmy.ca

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  • Am I corrupting my data?

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  • I have two identical HDDs as a mirror, another one that has no failsafe (but it's fine, because the data it contains is non-critical)

    On separate pools, I hope? My understanding of ZFS is that the loss of any vdev will mean the loss of the pool, so your striped vdev should be in its own pool that you don't mind losing.

  • What should be the ONE universal controller layout that everyone would agree on?

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  • It was clearer in the 360 days when the trigger was narrow. Now that it's as wide as a bumper the distinction feels a bit dated. I still prefer the 360 triggers, they felt great for fine control.

  • is Lemmy the most popular 'Reddit Alternative'?

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  • Don't worry, I put a lot more effort into finding alternatives and still landed here.

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    Self-Described Fascist Begs for Donations After Claiming Viral Debate Got Him Fired

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  • I thought this was an Onion headline at first.

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  • No no, ffmpeg is completely different! It refers to two women pegging a man.

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    NixOS and/or TrueNAS - What are your experiences?

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  • I have been using TrueNAS Scale for a while but have not used base Linux for my NAS. My opinion is if you're looking for a quick initial setup or are like me and didn't want to install ZFS yourself, TrueNAS is rather appealing, but otherwise it doesn't offer much. It has ZFS pre-installed, gives you a webUI to monitor basic things about your machine, and has fairly easy ways to setup data protection with snapshots and backups with rsync or zfs replication. In the more recent versions it even has Docker apps built-in so you can host some basic things. The downside of TrueNAS is that despite being Linux under the hood, it's a lot more locked down so doing advanced measures is more of a pain and much of their "simpler" UI-based stuff is exceedingly basic, half-featured, and lacks documentation.

    The way I use TrueNAS right now is to treat the main OS as mainly untouchable. I don't try to break out of the limits placed upon it. I instead use a "Jailmaker" machine (defunct wrapper script for systemd-nspawn) for all my Docker needs. This way the main system remains more stable. If I have to re-install, then it's a simple config import and my NAS is back to how it was.

    I would use the built-in VM tools or the built-in Docker tools for this, but A. they weren't implemented or weren't working when I set this up, and B. I found their setup rather... annoying. For instance, I tried to set up some apps with their previous app system and it required configuration before working and yet nowhere did anyone explain how to configure it so I was wokring blind. No one makes guides for setting up an app in the TrueNAS UI, so the extra layer of obfuscation was just a hinderance to me. Compare that to setting it up directly in Docker, there are a million guides and great documentation for everything I get stuck on. Thus, despite being the "harder" way to set it up, it was easier due to the existence of information about it.

    So, looking at it objectively, what parts of TrueNAS do I even use compared to base Linux? Not much. I use the WebUI to accomplish basic tasks such as creating or modifying datasets and permissions, snapshots, SMB shares, etcetera. All the basic things are there and I use the UI for them. But ever since that initial setup I spend most of my time in the CLI adjusting my scripts and Docker config files, creating directories inside the datasets, fine-tuning permissions... I could definitely have gone for a base Linux install as long as I knew what to install for ZFS support, some manner of WebUI, and so on. TrueNAS just did all that initial setup for me, and having a more locked-down OS forced me to use safer methods of installing programs via containers and keeping my install a lot more portable which I plan to continue no matter what OS I use.

    This was probably not helpful, but that's been my experience of TrueNAS for what it's worth. Whatever you do, just remember: RAID is not a backup. It is protection against drive faults, but an error in the RAID system itself or the RAID pool's data requires a separate copy of the data stored elsewhere to restore.

  • They should’ve let us edit it

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  • She's actually fairly progressive (socially, at least), but on some topics like health she gets kinda nutty... still have not quite beaten the anti-vax out of her although I am happy to say she's not as bad as she used to be. And she did get vaxxed during Covid after our entire family all got it and pushed her on it.

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  • Urban. My siblings were hospital births, but my mom always has been a proponent of more 'natural' solutions so I think she wanted to try the less clinical way. She had a midwife there for the birth.

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  • About 15 metres. I was a home birth and am currently staying with my parents.

  • Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate

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  • they were selling wd red (pro?) drives with smr tech

    Didn't they used to have only one "Red" designation? Or maybe I'm hallucinating. I thought "Red Pro" was introduced after that curfuffel to distinguish the SMR from the CMR.

  • Are there any wrap around sunglasses that don't make me look like a conservative dad?

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  • Driving with flat sunglasses sucks due to the sun getting around all the gaps.

  • NVIDIA is full of shit

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  • enjoy never using a computer again i guess?

  • You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning

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  • Depends who you bank with. Some desktop websites suck on mobile and some don't even allow certain actions on desktop. For some ungodly reason Wealthsimple requires me to do almost everything via app. It's one of the reasons I barely utilise their services.

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  • If I go 6 hours after a shower without deodorant, my armpits usually have started smelling. It ain't just big soap, it's genetics or something.

  • Anybody else block Lemmit.Online spambot?

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  • About two years ago, yeah. I can just visit Reddit for the one or two subreddits left that I want to see. Viewing them with worse formatting and missing comments is pointless for me.

  • Did you you notice the second "you" in the title of this post? How do you feel about (not) noticing it?

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  • I got tripped up around "the second" and had to backtrack so either I subconciously read ahead or I noticed the fault. Either way, heck you buddy.

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    OF alternative fediverse?

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  • that statement has been used so universally sarcastically that no one believes you're being serious when you say it now.

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  • I can think of a hundred issues more pressing to the American public than the existence of same-sex marriage: inflation, the cost of healthcare, national security, the war in Gaza — the list goes on.

    Oh yeah, now you can think of a hundred more important issues. Didn't seem to concern them when fighting against uh... critical race theory and DEI? Okay.

  • Jellyfin 10.11 RC1 Released

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  • Media watch status no longer persists on media rename. When you move or rename your media files, previously Jellyfin remembered the watch status based on external IDs alone; now it uses an actual reference to the database entry. This is a transitional change and we are working on a better way to handle that in a future version.

    I hope they do figure out a solution for that soon... Until that's fixed I'm going to stay on 10.10.7 for a while.