Limonene

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[–] Limonene 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Sure. First you set up a RAID5/6 array in mdadm. This is a purely software thing, which is built into the Linux kernel. It doesn't require any hardware RAID system. If you have 3-4 drives, RAID5 is probably best, and if you have 5+ drives RAID6 is probably best.

If your 3 blank drives are sdb1, sdc1, and sdd1, run this:

mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=5 -n 3 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1

This will create a block device called /dev/md0 that you can use as if it were a single large hard drive.

mkfs.btrfs /dev/md0

That will make the filesystem on the block device.

mkdir /mnt/bigraid
mount /dev/md0 /mnt/bigraid

This creates a mount point and mounts the filesystem.

To get it to mount every time you boot, add an entry for this filesystem in /etc/fstab

[–] Limonene 5 points 3 months ago (7 children)

The man page at https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/mkfs.btrfs.html says:

RAID5/6 has known problems and should not be used in production.

So those profiles have unknown, unspecified problems.

But btrfs is safe on top of md-based raid1/5/6. It also has the advantage that you only need to encrypt one volume.

[–] Limonene 2 points 3 months ago

Just the things currently on my shopping list. A CPU fan, a network card, some exterior lights for my house... There are no items that I buy online repeatedly.

[–] Limonene 4 points 3 months ago

Nobody's doing that. The only gender affirming surgeries done on minors are for cis minors (e.g. breast implants, facial reconstruction).

Minors need hormones, which are noncontroversial, but this also bans.

[–] Limonene 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I just searched for the article's quotation in duckduckgo, then selected "video" results at the top.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1lugbpMKDU

If you are trying to win an argument, watch out for the narrow loophole: your opponent may claim that adults can still get non-federally-funded trans healthcare, if they can still find a doctor after that private right of action chilling effect. The loophole is so narrow as to be useless, and the video demonstrates Trump clearly wishes to stop all trans healthcare.

[–] Limonene 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

He forgets a lot of the crazy things he says. That original (unconstitutional) plan has likely leaked out of his head, but he will probably do some other terrible thing. Trans people will need to watch out for his senile whims.

[–] Limonene 25 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It's hard to take you seriously when you claim to be centrist, but use the term "wokeism". Do you want trans people to apologize for existing?

Trump is an objectively dangerous person, a serial rapist, a severe racist, and a senile compulsive liar. If the Republican candidate had been a normal person, like John McCain or Mitt Romney, then I could understand seeing it as an even match. But Trump has made credible threats to endanger tons of American citizens, has promised to be a dictator, has promised that people won't need to vote any more, and is going to use the presidency to persecute his enemies.

This is me being dispassionate and objective. Trump is the most dangerous threat the US has ever faced.

[–] Limonene 28 points 3 months ago (16 children)

He can't [legally] deport US citizens either, but he has promised to do so. Who's going to stop him? Congress? The courts? Republicans will control both.

[–] Limonene 39 points 3 months ago (9 children)

While this may look like a good reason not to use the service, I learned of an even better reason just now from this article:

At the start of next year, GeForce Now will roll out a 100-hour monthly playtime allowance to continue providing exceptional quality and speed – as well as shorter queue times – for Performance and Ultimate members

Apparently you have to wait in line?!

[–] Limonene 22 points 3 months ago

The potato is just the electrolyte. The energy comes the oxidation of the metal electrodes.

[–] Limonene 57 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think it counts as satire, even if the headline is a completely true statement.

[–] Limonene 191 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Pretty fucked, but not as fucked as Ukraine, Palestine, Lebanon, or Taiwan.

NATO will be fucked for a while if the US withdraws, but other NATO countries may ramp up military spending over time.

This situation is a worldwide danger. The US is/was a world power, it has/had the largest national economy in the world, it has the largest military in the world.

Previously, we could be concerned that democratic countries (including the US) weren't putting enough pressure on authoritarian countries (like Russia, China, and North Korea) to improve. Now we have to worry that the US will actually become a fully authoritarian country, like Russia or China.

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