Snapraid parity is offline, so that’s not strictly accurate.

You build the parity, and then until you do a sync/scrub/rebuild they don’t do shit, so there’s no reason to keep them spun up.

If the drive are slow spinning up, then this is probably not a fatal concern, but there’s zero details here.

Not just zoomers.

I’m a grumpy old-inneial, and I dumped them a while ago.

The big reason is they’ve become fucking awful exploitative shitshows. Paywalls for everything, nonstop popups to buy shit, push notifications about things that you should pay for, fake messages that there’s “waiting matches” if I just pay $39.95, and the dark pattern bullshit you expect off scam websites: limited time sales, limited volume sales, ‘act now or it’s gone forever’ nonsense.

And, if that wasn’t bad enough, what you would get, if you paid for it, is flakes, fakes, scammers, and catfishers. Like, while hovering in the free pity-zone you get, I got a ton of matches. I’d say out of ~60 matches, 25 were outright scams (Oh hello, I am kindly wanting to get laid, please contact me on the app I use every day, telegram!), 20 were fakes (quick reverse image search showed that shockingly, that image was, in fact, not someone who felt the need to actually use dating apps), 10 were people who had decade old pictures or very, very selective angles, and the last 5 were conversations that totally went to plans and then… nothing.

Now, I’m gay, so I already have a HUGE advantage over the poor straghts, because everyone is there to get laid, and thus the bullshit is usually a lot more minimal. Don’t have to convince a dude all that hard, or play the make-sure-you-answer-the-question-correctly shit my straight friends have to deal with.

But, even then, over the course of a month, it was just a case of being nagged to death to spend money, and every interaction being total bullshit, which doesn’t really make you want to spend the time OR money.

And before you assume it’s just me, I went on dates and uh, more, 3 times in the same month off people I met from Snapchat. From the random-people-you-should-add list. So, I’ll assume it’s not just me, and that those apps have rotted to the point they’re literally worse than random people on Snapchat, which is a hell of an achievement.

And I’ll 2nd the just meeting people at things in real life. People can’t play the stupid shit games if they’re standing in front of you: it’s hard to be a scam or a fake, and your ability to catfish is limited to trying to suck your gut in, which isn’t really something someone is likely to miss you doing.

I do think, though, that there were useful dating apps before they got ingested into the match.com umbrella, but they have been, so it’s just a wilderness of enshittified piles of poo as far as you can see.

Store full of fake merchandise uses fake postage to deliver it’s fake crap?

You don’t say.

(Don’t buy shit from Temu, Wish, or Shien.)

I honestly assumed STO died years ago.

I kinda quit playing it when greifing the ERPers stopped being fun (or even all that possible), since the rest of the game had stopped being fun quite a while before that.

Hard to say if someone other than Cryptic is good or bad for the game, given Cryptic was always pretty shit.

See, IBM (with OS/2) and Microsoft (with Windows 2.x and 3.x) were cooperating initially.

Right-ish, but I’d say there was actually a simpler problem than the one you laid out.

The immediate and obvious thing that killed OS/2 wasn’t the compatibility layer, it was driven by IBM not having any drivers for any hardware that was not sold by IBM, and Windows having (relatively) broad support for everything anyone was likely to actually have.

Worse, IBM pushed for support for features that IBM hardware support didn’t support to be killed, so you ended up with a Windows that supported your hardware, the features you wanted, and ran on cheaper hardware fighting it out with an OS/2 that did none of that.

IBM essentially decided to, well, be IBM and committed suicide in the market, and didn’t really address a lot of the stupid crap until Warp 3, at which point it didn’t matter and was years too late, and Windows 95 came swooping in shortly thereafter and that was the end of any real competition on the desktop OS scene for quite a while.

Since it appears this happened 8 years ago, and uh, I can’t say that I’ve seen a single MP3 file since then, perhaps nobody still cares.

If you’re building a music library, and you’re NOT using some sort of lossless format, I’d love to know why. I know a lot of people with massive libraries, medium libraries, and just shit they like one song at a time and not a one of them isn’t using FLAC files for it.

They might transcode into something occasionally, but it’s always something like AAC or OPUS, not MP3.

10% of windows laptops being sold are ARM?

That’s gotta be some weird corporate buyer thing, because otherwise I strongly don’t buy that line at all.

That could probably work.

Were it me, I’d build a script that would re-hash and compare all the data to the previous hash as the first step of adding more files, and if the data comes out consistent, I’d copy the files over, hash everything again, save the hash results elsewhere and then repeat as needed.

Yeah I figured that’s what you were trying to figure out, since I 100% went through the same thought process, lol.

I just bought a Mac Mini instead of moving to Linux on the desktop, and am pretty happy with the outcome (everything works) but that’s not a solution for everyone.

I can answer your question: Resolve are very clear that Intel iGPUs are not supported in Linux, at all, because the Intel Linux drivers do not support some features they require.

Free version, paid version: doesn’t matter, it’s not supported hardware right now. Not even the new ARC cards are, because it’s a software issue Intel has to fix.

Ran into this when looking at moving to Linux and there’s not a solution for it.

Was replacing ‘24’ with ‘25’ too much work, or something?

The format is the tape in the drive, or the disk or whatever.

Tape existed 50 years ago: nothing modern and in production can read those tapes.

The problem is, given a big enough time window, the literal drives to read it will simply no longer exist, and you won’t be able to access even non-rotted media because of that.

As for data integrity, there’s a lot of options: you can make a md5 sum of each file, and then do it again and see if anything is different.

The only caveat here is you have to make sure whatever you’re using to make the checksums gets stored somewhere that’s not JUST on the drive because if the drive DOES corrupt itself, and your only record of the “good” hashes is on the drive, well, you can’t necessarily trust those hashes either.

So, 50 years isn’t a reasonable goal unless you have a pretty big budget for this. Essentially no media is likely to survive that long and be readable unless they’re stored in a vault, under perfect climate controlled conditions. And even if the media is fine, finding an ancient drive to read a format that no longer exists is not a guaranteed proposition.

You frankly should be expecting to have to replace everything every couple of years, and maybe more often if your routine tests of the media show it’s started rotting.

Long term archival storage really isn’t just a dump it to some media and lock it up and never look at ever again.

Alternately, you could just make someone else pay for all of this, and shove all of this to something like Glacier and make the media Amazon’s problem. (Assuming Amazon is around that long and that nothing catches fire.)

I’m using blu-ray disks for the 3rd copy, but I’m not backing up nearly as much data as you are.

The only problem with optical media is that you should only expect it to be readable for a couple of years, best case, at this point and probably not even that as the tier 1 guys all stop making it and you’re left with the dregs.

You almost certainly want some sort of tape option, assuming you want long retention periods and are only likely to add incremental changes to a large dataset.

Edit: I know there’s longer-life archival optical media, but for what that costs, uh, you want tape if at all possible.

Change your port definitions so that they’re only binding to localhost, like so:

• “127.0.0.1:8001:8001”

That’ll stop access from anywhere but the local host. You’ll have to redo your reverse proxy configuration to use 127.0.0.1 instead of whatever you’re using now, though.

Uh, Fry’s Electronics? The Fry’s Electronics that have been out of business for like five years?

Not that I doubt this list, but listing long dead companies as current donors does not add to the legitimacy.

All these posts, and not ONE person mentioned The Animated Series. No, not that one, the older one.

It’s unorthodox, sure, but it’s also a pretty low stakes and less uh, of-its-time, way to enjoy some TOS before going into TOS, which is 100% where you should start.

Part of me finds it sad that the “green” option is not only shit but actually worse.

The other part of me is laughing because that’s the best snacking my doomer-ism has had for a while.

Also, isn’t the preferred nomenclature actually a ‘m’lord’?

Perhaps I’ve misunderstood something.

The old ‘this is not an airport, you don’t have to announce your departure’ line seems like it might apply here, since that’s the least interesting why-im-leaving post I think I’ve read in a while.