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  • When I was a wee kid, I thought that scene from the Matrix where Morpehus explains that humans destroyed the whole damn planet just to maybe slow down the machines was stupid.

    I mean if you block the sun, we're all going to fucking die, why would you do something that stupid?

    Yeah, well, the last few years has shown that actually at least half the people on the planet would be pro-kill-everything, even if that includes themselves.

    So really, this take isn't remotely shocking anymore.

  • Yeah that's basically the same conclusion I reached: it's perfectly cromulent until you run into something you need that it won't do, and then there's absolutely no way to make it work, period.

    A lot of the final decision was based primarily around the fact that I just was not invovled in what friends and family members were doing, because I had become a pain in the ass to contact and so people just.... didn't.

  • Oh I wasn't saying to not, I was just saying make sure you're aware of what recovery entails since a lot of raid controllers don't just write bytes to the disk and can, if you don't have spares, make recovery a pain in the ass.

    I'm using MD raid for my boot SSDs and yeah, the install was a complete pain in the ass since the debian installer will let you, but it's very much in the linux sense of 'let you': you can do it, but you're figuring it out on your own.

  • Buy multiple drives, setup some sort of raid, setup some sort of backup. Then set up a 2nd backup.

    Done.

    All drives from all manufacturers are going to fail at more or less the same rate (see: backblaze's stats) and trying to buy a specific thing to avoid the death which is coming for all drives is, mostly, futile: at the absolute best you might see a single specific model to avoid, but that doesn't mean entire product lines are bad.

    I'm using some WD red drives which are pushing 8 years old, and some Seagate exos drives which are pushing 4, and so far no issues on any of the 7 drives.

  • Make sure, if you use hardware RAID, you know what happens if your controller dies.

    Is the data in a format you can access it easily? Do you need a specific raid controller to be able to read it in the future? How are you going to get a new controller if you need it?

    That's a big reason why people nudge you to software raid: if you're using md and doing a mirror, then that'll work on any damn drive controller on earth that linux can talk to, and you don't need to worry about how you're getting your data back if a controller dies on you.

  • Well knowing Elon, he's probably paying minimum wage and also forcing the guy to clean his toilets and bring him tendies.

    And complaining the entire time about how the tendies doesn't have enough honey mustard.

  • Ugh I always hated that phrase. Like, space age technology is ball point pens, Tang, and those MPET blankets you find in first aid kits. Oh and freeze dried ice cream.

    It really really does not mean shit at this point.

  • Yeah. Those Durons were a stupidly good deal at the time since you could overclock the snot out of them and get a CPU on par with a top of the stack one for absolute pennies.

    Unless they caught fire. But that mostly usually didn't hapen all that often sometimes.

  • Like everything else on the internet, absolute shit I'm sorry to say.

    The spam problem exists there, and if it's not spam, it's more than likely a complete scam.

    I've quit trying to buy used stuff online outside of ebay (because, if nothing else, the level of interaction is much lower and if it's a scam then you've got actual protections) and totally given up selling anything online anymore and just throw everything I don't want away becasue I don't want to deal with the headache of selling shit on these platforms.

    The last try was a computer on Facebook marketplace which did, eventaully, sell: after something like 60 people asked questions and 4 or 5 people flaked out. It was very much not worth the $150 or whatever.

  • I'm using their T-Mobile rebrand, and it's just as good as T-Mobile ever was, excepting you don't get any 5G access.

    Though, tbh, I don't care, since I'm paying $5 a month for 500 minutes, 500 texts, and 500mb of data. 5G would be a total waste since, I mean, even the 4G stuff can eat all my data allocation in like 30 seconds anyways.

  • I still strongly dislike a lot of the dynamics around them.

    They're still privacy nightmares, they're still running black-box software that's not auditable and doing who the fuck knows what in the basebands, and they're still covered in sensors running apps that are trying to scrape every byte of that data to profile you and sell that data to anyone who asks.

    But, ultimately, I was spending too much time trying to stand on a principle that wasn't really doing anything (I still use computers, and the websites of most of the apps I was using before, and still having a huge amount of data ingested since I didn't live in a cabin in the woods) other than making my own life more complicated and causing shit like missing invites to things because my phone just didn't get the SMS, or resorted the arrival order, or failed to download a MMS message or whatever whereas everyone on a modern phone was like, fine.

    So I won't say I'm all-in, or that I like them, or that I've even changed my mind that they're little spy rectangles that are making us all stupid, but uh, too much in modern life is making the assumption you have one to completely unplug without losing an awful lot.

  • Hah was coming here to say basically this: if you're always tired after sleeping, go get a sleep study. If you do have sleep apnea, absolutely nothing short of medical intervention will make a meaningful difference, and it's an easy place to start.

  • So have you looked at using a N95 filter in a respirator?

    I don't know if that'll work for you, but they certainly stay in place much better than any mask, and there's a wide variety of them that have the filter in various locations so maybe that'd be a better option?

    You look a little bit Fallout while wearing them, but they're super comfortable for hours (because that's how people who wear them use them), cheap to replace the filter when the time comes, and they seal spectacularly well and are easy to fit.

  • I'd support that: the new excuses as to why a suspect escaped would be fantastic.

    "Well, I would have caught him but my car died for some reason and I couldn't get out."

    "Well, I would have caught him but I hit a bump and half my car fell off."

    "Well, I would have caught him, but my car caught fire and killed my partner."

    "Well, I would haved caught him but it was raining so my bumper fell off and punctured my tire."