SethranKada

joined 2 years ago
[–] SethranKada@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Hadn't thought of that, makes sense though. Thanks

[–] SethranKada@lemmy.ca -1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Well, how would you spell it? I don't have time to look up every word I don't remember the spelling of when I'm typing from a phone.

[–] SethranKada@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

Here's one, it certainly got a laugh out of me

https://lemmy.world/post/33357611

[–] SethranKada@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago (9 children)

The store I work at mostly hires immigrants. While I would say that the language barrier is squing things a little, my coworkers generally have never handled technology before, even if they were previously in a role that had a high level of education.

Take one of my coworkers for example. When she asked me what I was reading, my fumbled attempt to explain fanfiction might as well have been pure gibrish. She didn't even have a concept of a book that isn't educational, never mind not knowing the translation of "fiction". After explaining the concept, she said "Oh, like the Bible?"

I think I might have done a mental bluescreen at that one.

Even just this last week, she seemed to be genuenly confuzed when I explained that I was writing a book. She kept asking "oh, are you in school then?" as if the only reason to ever write stuff was for school.

Anyways, my point is; the average everyday person has likely never so much as owned a smartphone, never mind knows how to boot off a usb drive. It's not just an immigrant thing either, my familly is almost utterly unable to have conversations with me because they don't even recognize 3/4ths of the words I need to use to describe the concept I need to explain to explain why I was laughing at a meme.

[–] SethranKada@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

Thanks for the info! I didn't realize that ZFS already does caching. I guess I'll use those two nvme slots for two identical drives for my secondary pool then.

[–] SethranKada@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Could you elaborate on why the read cache won't work? I'm aware of the high RAM requirement, and plan to allocate 40GB to the L2ARC. Or is there some other bottleneck I'm not aware of?

These things are expensive, so I'd appreciate any info.

My thought process for the mirroring is that in the event the nvme fails, the pool will remain accessible, just extremely slow in comparison to previously, and it'll be easier for me to replace than if I just made regular backups to the primary storage pool.

 

I recently purchased a new NAS / Server and while I'm waiting for it to arrive I'm planning out my storage and RAID configurations.

I'ce mostly decided on using 5 20TB or 24TB drives in RAID z2 as my primary storage pool. I'll just use a 500GB nvme as a read cache. But I still have a gen 4 by 4 nvme slot available, and I'm considering buying a stupidly large nvme drive to put in it.

Problem is, I want some fault tolerance, so I'm wondering if I can just make a virtual drive in my primary pool and use a RAID mirror between the nvme and the virtual drive to make my secondary pool.

Would this work? Or would the performance overhead and instibility make this a fool's errand?

[–] SethranKada@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Meal replacement bar

[–] SethranKada@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And how many bottles are still in your closet? Because that's always the first thing you should check after thinking that particular thought.

[–] SethranKada@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

That's awesome!

[–] SethranKada@lemmy.ca 60 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Librewolf. It does everything i need, and nothing i don't. It doesn't have bloatware or adware, and it respects my privacy. That's all I care about, besides that it can still do everything I need a browser to do.

[–] SethranKada@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

Magpies, crows and ravens. Idk why, but to me they're adorable

 

I'm pretty new to self-hosting, and the NAS I'm using right now has been a pain since the moment I bought it. The Synology DS220+ just doesn't have enough CPU power for my needs, and I've recently used up all the disk space I installed, so I'm looking for a new server.

Unfortunately, all the options I've found online prioritize storage space over CPU, and I haven't had much luck finding anything that fits my needs.

Requirements: CPU: Intel Core i3 or higher, but preferably Core i5 GPU: Not needed RAM: max 64 GB, min 16 GB Storage: max 32 TB, min 10 TB Network: 10 GB SPF+ Price: max 6K CAD, preferred 3K CAD

I'm hoping to run TrueNAS Scale with Plex and Nextcloud installed, and my media library isn't likely to get larger than 5 TB, so CPU is really the main limiter of my current NAS.

As an example of something almost perfect: The TrueNAS mini X+ and R varieties would work excellently, but don't meet the CPU requirement. I wanted to look at the other systems on offer from TrueNAS, but they don't list out CPU specs for anything more advanced than the Mini line.

Of the Lenovo stuff, since it was one of the few websites with a filterable picker, the ThinkSystem SR630 V2 was the closest of fitting my requirements. It comes short on the CPU, though, and is verging on the price limit too. I also don't need 12 TB of RAM, or 1.2 PB of storage.

What do you use? Can you recommend any websites I can go to find something that fits my needs better?

 

I'm finding it really difficult to tell whether a particular air conditioner is supported by Home Assistant, since all the ones I've seen in stores don't seem compatible. I mean, I'm probably wrong in that, I'm sure that with enough work anything will work, but I didn't see any integrations with Midea air conditioners, for example.

All my windows in my house slide sideways, so most of the in-wall air-conditioners won't work, and I rent the place, so I can't make large alterations. This pretty much limits me to portable ACs, which don't tend to have much smart home functionality.

Any help would be appreciated, as I'm pretty new to using Home Assistant in general, and I'm still trying to figure out how things work. I only bought my Home Assistant Yellow last year, and I don't yet have any smart appliances to connect it to.

 

What brands do you avoid at all cost? I don't keep up with the news all that much, and many of the reasons to avoid something don't make it there anyway. So I'm asking here to make a big list of things to avoid. It could be anything from bad security practices to really frustrating packaging. Working as a cashier myself, I definitely know there are plenty of brands I avoid purely on the basis that their product is a pain to stock.

On the flip side, what's the alternative? If you avoid Pepsi, for example, what do you turn to instead?

 

I'm getting really tired of my food expiring before I make anything with it, and I want to quit buying anything that can't be frozen or last several months in the cupboard.

 

It's a personal philosophy that I've come to use as my own form of religion, and while I'm aware other people have researched the idea, I'm having some trouble finding the name for the concept.

 

I love browsing crates.io and blessed.rs for interesting and useful crates to experiment with. What are your favorite?

I'm especially interested in those simple ones that do one thing and do it will, like uuid, tempfile, and notify.

 

I'm aware I can just remove a couple mods, and I plan to do so anyway for my poor laptop's sake, but this is ridiculous. Does Dub's Mint Menu effect the build menu at all? And if it does, does it make it more compact?

 
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