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It helps not having a computer with specs from a decade ago.

It should work - possible that it won't let you create a one disk raid 0, but creating a one disk raid 1 and then converting it to a two disk raid 0 should word. It's been years since I played with a pure raid 0 (don't see much sense in them), but managed conversion back then.

If your install is using LVM (which anything installed over a bit more than a decade should be) you can set up the new second drive as a RAID with a missing device, add it as additional PV, use pvmove to move all PEs to the RAID, remove the old PV, and now add that disk to the RAID.

I did not sign with them after I had some issues with the contract provided, and the resulting interactions with my future manager. I'd say at least for someone from Europe the company culture is less than ideal from that encounter.

AMD keeps some older generations in production as their budget options - and as they had excellent CPUs for multiple generations now you also get pretty good computers out of that. Even better - with some planning you'll be able to upgrade to another CPU later when checking chipset lifecycle.

AMD has established by now that they deliver what they promise - and intel couldn't compete with them for a few generations over pretty much the complete product line - so they can afford now to have the bleeding edge hardware at higher prices. It's still far away from what intel was charging when they were dominant 10 years ago - and if you need that performance for work well worth the money. For most private systems I'd always recommend getting last gen, though.

Zumindest fuer Deutschland absolut korrekt - hier in Finnland wuerde ich das vermutlich anders sehen. Deutschlandurlaub ohne Bargeld geht auch 2024 immer noch nicht.

Auch an Orten, wo Kartenzahlung nicht akzeptiert wird, beispielsweise bei der Zahlung von Kopiergeld an der Schule

Hier ist nicht das Problem dass Kartenzahlung nicht geht, sondern dass es sowas wie Kopiergeld gibt

No OS updates, unless promised at release. Some security updates, though. They're GPL violators, and don't release kernel sources, which makes 3rd party OS images harder.

Devices are generally easily repairable,they sell spares, and their support also sends you parts during warranty period if you ask - I just received a new battery for my titan slim.

Just read her wikipedia page - as I'm not from the US I've been mostly treating US politics as a bad comedy show for the last two decades or so, and even though she's vice president she was too much of a side character to register.

The one thing that did rech me over there was that she's a bad candidate as VP as she'll erect a police state when biden dies. After reading her bio I can't find problems there, though. I disagree with some details - like seeking life imprisonment - but can give her a pass due to the environment she's operating in which probably wouldn't allow anything else (if you're confused: all convicts should undergo rehabilitation attempts with goal of release. If you stay locked up it'll be due to you still posing a danger to society, in which case you still get more privileges than a prisoner as at that stage it is considered a mental health issue, and treating you as prisoner for that would be a human rights violation).

For sticking to not seeking death penalty she deserves respect, though, and generally she seemed to be focused on putting actual criminals to prison.

This doesn't have anything to do with user control - modern windows versions need drivers to be WHQL signed to get that kind of access. Alternatively you'll need to enable developer mode on your system, and install your own developer certificate into its keyring for running own code, which has its own drawbacks.

Crowdstrike is implemented as a device driver - but as there is no device Microsoft could've argued that this is abusing the APIs, and refused the WHQL certification. Microsofts own security solution (Defender) also is implemented as a device driver, though, and that's what the EU ruling is about: Microsoft needs to provide the same access they're using in their own products to competitors. Which is a good thing - but if Microsoft didn't have Defender, or they'd have done it without that type of access it'd have been fully legal for them to deny the certification for Crowdstrike.

Both MacOS and Linux have the ability to run the type of thing that requires those privileges on Windows in an unprivileged process - and on newer Linux versions Crowdstrike is using that (older versions got broken by them the same way they now broke Windows). So Microsoft now trying to blame the EU can be seen as an attempt to keep people from questioning why Microsoft didn't implement a low privilege API as well, which would've prevented this whole mess.

I just mentioned that because google drive links are one of the very few things I'm opening in chrome - and they're the only site where I need a 3rd party cookie exemption for.

Ich beschreib mal wie ich das bei meinem letzten Umzug hier in Finnland in 2014 (also vor etwas ueber 10 Jahren) gemacht habe:

Wir waren gerade auf dem Rueckweg vom Termin um Kaufvertrag zu unterschreiben, und als Hausbesitzer war jetzt klar dass wir umziehen. Ich geh zur Seite der Post, oeffne den Nachsendeantrag, authentifiziere mich ueber meine Bank (die ja meinen Ausweis geprueft hat, und daher bestaetigen kann dass ich das bin), fuelle aus wann und ab welchem Datum ich umziehe, mache ein Haekchen dass meine Frau auch mit umzieht, und schicke das ab. Damit habe ich meinen Nachsendeantrag, und die Post leitet das dann zum Einwohnermeldeamt fuer die Ummeldung weiter.

Das ist wieder so eine Sache wo die Leute auf beiden Seiten doof sind. Wieso man da eine Plastikkarte rumschicken herstellen muss hab ich auch als ich sowas vor 15 Jahren selber noch genutzt habe nie verstanden - das abzuschaffen sehe ich daher als durchaus sinnvoll. Wer kein Internet benutzt wird wohl generell zum Bahnschalter gehen wenn er was will - Problemloesung waere hier ganz einfach dass man dort eine Bahncard kaufen kann, und einen mitzufuehrenden Papierbeleg erhaelt, waehrend der Rest der das Online kauft sich das zum Absichern gegen Batterieausfall selber ausdrucken kann. Wobei letzteres eigentlich nicht noetig sein sollte - falls das mal passiert, und ich mich ausweisen kann sollte der Schaffner das gegen die Datenbank abpruefen koennen ich ich eine gueltige Karte habe.

Das nervige an Deutschland und Digitalisierung ist dass das erst immer 10 Jahre verschlafen wird, und dann wird eine massiv ueberkomplizierte Loesung fuer das Problem gebaut die dann noch extra Probleme schafft.