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by archagon 11mo ago
It would appear that flash storage loses data when left unpowered for extended periods of time, however. Maybe not an issue if your NAS is powered 24/7, but it makes me nervous for archival storage.
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by archagon 11mo ago
But there is nothing fundamental to configure in TrueNAS. Everything crucial to the base experience works perfectly out of the box: just install, connect to Ethernet, and visit http://truenas.local in your browser. I only have t
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by archagon 11mo ago
If the vast majority of your code is repetitive stuff, you are not using the right abstractions.
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by archagon 11mo ago
Synology adds some additional logic to automatically recover data from other RAID drives when the BTRFS layer encounters a checksum failure. I don’t think there’s any way to homebrew that part.
635.
by archagon 11mo ago
Well, the warning makes sense with respect to the dedup vdev since the DDT would actually be stored there. On the other hand, the L2ARC would simply serve as a read cache, similar to the DDT residing in RAM.
636.
by archagon 11mo ago
As a US citizen with plenty of travel experience, there are actually scant few things the USA is best at, especially when it comes to quality of life for ordinary people. US residents who rarely leave their borders likely won't underst
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by archagon 11mo ago
Synology also has a bit of a software moat with its BTRFS-backed SHR implementation. You can throw in drives of arbitrary size and it'll automatically maximize the available free space. ZFS can't do that, though AnyRaid should mak
638.
by archagon 11mo ago
I think the asterisk there is that the special vdev requires redundancy and becomes a mandatory part of your pool. Some ZFS discussions suggest that an L2ARC vdev can cache the DDT. Do you know if this is correct?
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by archagon 11mo ago
I really didn't want to setup and admin my own Unix system when I was building my NAS, and TrueNAS made the software side trivial. It's basically plug-and-play and almost entirely configurable from the web interface. Why complicat
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by archagon 11mo ago
The N5 Pro is a good machine, but I have to recommend the Aoostar WTR Max over it, having used both. It's a few hundred bucks cheaper ($680 post-tax for a quality SFF case + mobo + CPU + power + fans!!) and has an extra drive bay and a
641.
by archagon 11mo ago
At our current level of technological advancement, we should be able to get far more than a 5y Kerouac road trip before joining the grind. Where are all those supposed productivity gains going? Why are we becoming less free? (This is sort
642.
by archagon 11mo ago
Or maybe it’s just people trying to be kind. Not everything is a fucking battle.
643.
by archagon 11mo ago
Well, let’s be clear: it’s not a “gift for a child,” but the selection of a child heuristically determined to be genetically superior to others.
644.
by archagon 1y ago
Why do they “need” nature? Looking back on my childhood, I think I got tremendous value from the diversity of experiences I was exposed to, not any one specific thing. The nature at my grandfather’s dacha was lovely and enjoyable, but so
645.
by archagon 1y ago
Begging the question. Regular cars are not "legacy" or "obsolete," and self-driving cars do not yet have a proven track record.
646.
by archagon 1y ago
The penultimate step before just swapping them with some AI simulacrum.
647.
by archagon 1y ago
I love SFF PCs, but you can’t get the same density as a manufacturer doing a fully bespoke design. Just look at those innards: no space is wasted.
648.
by archagon 1y ago
I was under the impression that these drives may be transparently encrypted by default. (Rollable encryption key in hardware, invisible to end-user.)
649.
by archagon 1y ago
I believe many enterprise drives have instant-erase functionality (presumably deleting an encryption key).
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by archagon 1y ago
We do not have a “far left” political bloc in this country.
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by archagon 1y ago
Developers would revolt if Apple introduced it right away. The steps will have to be gradual. But it’s pretty clear that the open, Unix-based Mac is an odd duck in Apple’s current lineup — and Apple is a company that likes to homogenize.
652.
by archagon 1y ago
Wolf picking sheep fur out of teeth: “stop being so tribal and let’s focus on the systemic issues here.”
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by archagon 1y ago
You can bet that Apple will pervert macOS notarization for app review just as soon as they can get away with it.
654.
by archagon 1y ago
"The IRS unit that audits billionaires has lost 38% of its employees since January, new data shows" https://www.icij.org/news/2025/03/the-irs-unit-that-audits-b... "After mass firings, the IRS
655.
by archagon 1y ago
Interestingly, the items I was looking for (NAS boxes) were actually cheaper at MicroCenter than anywhere else. And I could get them same day with a generous return policy.
656.
by archagon 1y ago
We may have to revisit this comparison once the AI bubble pops.
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by archagon 1y ago
People with money understand how to get themselves more money, often at the expense of others. And indeed, they’re very good at that.
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by archagon 1y ago
They talk the big talk, but when push comes to shove, most still want to live in places with cachet and culture, not some tax haven in the boonies.
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by archagon 1y ago
Oh nice! Just gave it a shot and it does feel a lot more pleasant to use on macOS than what I remember.
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by archagon 1y ago
Gimp, maybe not so much[1], but I understand that Krita has improved quite a bit. And regardless of stagnancy, both of these applications will continue to exist long after Affinity gets our-incredible-journeyed. [1]: (FWIW, I don't kno

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