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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?

[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 7 points 9 months ago

I think that's just one of the official binary penguins that were released last month.

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Just say no

[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 15 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 22 points 1 year ago

I've been using the 'Open With' extension on Firefox to play video through mpv with a click

[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

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.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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?

[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Was worried for a minute I might not even be running linux, but neofetch has saved the day.

[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

Shit, you've just reminded me I've been running this install for months now and I don't even have neofetch installed.

Sorting immediately, not sure how I've managed these last few month.

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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)

Glaswegian bugs from David Hamilton

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Swiss bronze age bling from Estonia.

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Legit Cali? (mander.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz to c/trees@lemmy.world

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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Not had this stuff in many years.

A friend brought it back from Japan and told me it was either sencha or hojicha but I think I got lucky.

My beloved clay kyusu died some time ago, this is my charity shop backup kyusu. Not a looker but makes a fine cup of Japanese tea.

[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure there is a need to run linux on bare metal, or carry around a second laptop.

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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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Loki has arrived (mander.xyz)

[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't doubt that relying on Red Hat's code makes life easier.

My needs are minimal. I can get by on openrc, runit, systemd or sysv.

Curious to see where s6 goes.

I lost interest in Arch when Tom Gunderson was aggressively promoting systemd whilst being funded by Red Hat, I was sad when Debian made the decision to rely on Red Hat to take care of the low level system plumbing.

My tinfoil hat from around 2010 still seems relevant.

[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

linked added to the OP....odd, I posted it as a link, but added an image which seems to be the only visible content.

Sorry, new here & confused by stuff.

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

[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

Debian had a very long and painful public debate to eventually depend exclusively on systemd, from Red Hat. I'm not so sure they choose wisely to heavily depend upon RH/IBM LGLP code.

The new release is the first ever, I think, to offer non-free software by default.

Personal opinion is that Gentoo had it right all along. They spend a lot of time & man hours ensuring pretty much anything coming from Red Hat, that isn't being filtered by Linus, is optional. They created eudev, elogind & made Gnome portable again when Red Hat tried to shut down portability. Neddy shows that you can run a bleeding edge system whilst not depending on much at all from Red Hat over the past 15yrs or so.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz to c/music@beehaw.org
[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

We need more threads about not talking about that thing that we have been talking about too much.p

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