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ZFS is really nice. I started experimenting with it when it was being introduced to FreeBSD, around 2007-2008, but only truly started using it last year, for two NASes (on Linux).

It’s complex for a filesystem, but considering all it can do, that’s not surprising.

Hm, they’re removable in about every case I’ve used in the past 20 years. I mostly use Fractal Design cases though, so I suppose it’s something they tend to do.

I’m never giving it up out of principle, but I dunno about the RAM usage. Firefox was above 7GB last I looked. I have RAM to spare though, so I don’t really care.

Helpful yes, but far from enough. It only helps in some scenarios (like accidental deletes, malware), but not in many others (filesystem corruption, multiple disks dying at once due to e.g. lightning, a bad PSU or a fire).

Offsite backup is a must for data you want to keep.

That’s in bytes. A modern NVMe drive can do about 7 GB/s (more than 10 for PCIe 5.0 drives). Even SATA could handle 5 Gbit/s, though barely.

Sorry for the nitpick, but you probably mean GB/s (or GiB/s, but I won’t go there). Gbps is gigabits per second, not gigabytes per second.
Since both are used in different contexts yet they differ by about a factor of 8, not confusing the two is useful.

What does this have to do with systemd? Aren’t they safer in this situation because they aren’t using the beta xz release?

My systems running Debian stable with systemd also aren’t affected…

Most people need something to do. Being free all the time is rarely good for mental health.

Money doesn’t solve everything. The probably have way more issues with stalkers and death threats than any of us do, for example. Even with hired security that can’t feel very good.

20 feet is fine unless you want 4K 120 Hz and stuff like that. I’m which case 20 feet may also be fine with a passive cable, but a bit on the edge of where AOC starts to make sense.

As for 1080p and 4K30 I think 10 meters can work passively.

Edit: My in-head unit conversion was a bit off, 20 feet is probably a bit over what’s sensible for 4K120. But it’s probably fine for non-UHS HDMI.

Biden did win, the tweet isn’t exactly recent.

No, it’s not. I have never brushed my teeth too hard and have always used very soft toothbrushes, but I used to brush for 6-7 minutes, and my gums have suffered for it. Way too much of my teeth are now exposed, which is both ugly and causes sensitivity.
In the long run, if one keeps this up, teeth will start falling out.

Don’t overbrush.

ps aux says hi!

z is for gz files only though, there are plenty of others. xf autodetects and works with all of them (with GNU tar att least).

Do most editors do that by default? If so, that’s great – if not, it’s just a downside for tabs, if you need to hit enter, backspace out the automatic indents and then press space 30 times rather than just hit enter and have it aligned automatically.

vim seems to auto-insert tabs when you hit enter mid-function definition, at least with standard settings.

How does that work, and with which editor settings? If you simply set the tab width (tabstop) in vim, things go south.

Say you have a function definition one indent level in, then 22 characters of text. You more want to align the next line to that. How does that work in practice with tabs?

The obvious way with tabs and ts=4 would be 6 tabs and two spaces(one tab for the initial indent, the rest to match 22 characters). But then someone with ts=2 comes along and barely gets half way there, or someone with ts=8 who overshoots by a lot.

The consistent appearance thing is probably more about how mixing tabs (for indentation) and spaces (for alignment, eg in multi-line function definitions of calls) looks like complete crap if you change the tab width.

Well, how it may work. It is fairly controversial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_desensitization_and_reprocessing

History search is built into most shells AND it’s interactive. Try hitting Ctrl+r and stay typing. Ctrl+r again to go to the previous result.

When you find the one you want, either hit enter to execute or use arrows, Ctrl+a/home or Ctrl+e/end to start modifying the command.

Nice! I started using it just this week. I built a computer to serve as NAS with Debian and ZFS.

I’m also considering moving my Ubuntu based server to Debian; it gets too many package updates that I frankly don’t care about, plus even Ubuntu server feels a bit bloated.
I moved from Gentoo to Ubuntu a few years ago precisely to reduce my workload; I just wanted it to work… and now I’m considering Debian for the same reason.