Every year or so.

My NAS is self-built.

I used to buy one more drive whenever my pools would start getting full. I’m now in a place where I can discard data about as fast as I get more to store, I don’t predict needing new drives until one fails.

I’ve re-arranged my volumes to increase or decrease parity many times after buying drives or instead of buying drives.

Mergerfs makes access easy, the underlying drives are either with or without parity pairs, and I have things arranged so that critical files are always stored with mirroring, while non-critical files are not.

I rather enjoy the added storage capacity.

So do I.

It’s just that I use btrfs, mergerfs, or lvms to pool storage. Not RAID.

Making changes to my storage setup is far easier using these options, much more so than RAID.

Mergerfs especially makes adding or removing capacity truly trivial, with the only lengthy processes involved being bog-standard file transfers.

Hard drive storage is pretty cheap. And the effort it takes to make changes to a raid volume as my needs change over the years, just isn’t worth the savings.

Rebuilding parity requires processing power. Copying a mirror does not.

There’s also the fact that the rebuild stresses the drives, increasing the chance of a cascade failure, where the resulting rebuild after a drive failure, reveals other drive failures.

It all results in management overhead, which having to “just tweak some parameters” makes worse, not better.

In comparison to simple mirroring and backing up offsite, RAID is a headache.

The redundancy it provides is better achieved in other ways, and the storage pooling it provides is better achieved in other ways.

They can be banned by admins and mods without defederating. Their account will “work” until @yell0wfever92@chatgptjailbreak.tech does something about it, but they wont show up for most users for long.

When someone does this, the culling of the content may be gradual, but it starts immediately.

I’m a sovern citizen

🤣

And the typo is the least funny part.

And you’re posting this from an account impersonating a trans person.

The admin of blahaj no less.

Your ban will be swift and deserved.

Pretty much.

My volumes are either RAID1 or mergerfs.

That’s not quite right. Our sun has never gone nova, and is a fairly young main sequence star. It’s still in the first “main sequence” of fusion after accumulating from scattered matter. It’s heavy enough to do fusion, but not heavy enough to really “properly” go boom at the end (or to have done so in the past).

While novas form heavy elements, the originating star either becomes a neutron star or black hole. Sol, our sun, is a a “normal” star (though above average brightness) which means it won’t properly go nova. It’ll just “burn out” and become a white dwarf.

The matter ejected by a Nova flies out into the universe and falls in the gravity wells of other Solar systems. So our heavy elements likely hail from millions of other past stars.

Nnooooo

They were already building lasting value.

By just making good artistically meaningful games.

Bonk

Cool.

The restrictions won’t change what little I use it for, but it might piss off some of my friends who are deep in the discord rabbit hole.

Well yeah without an active session into something it gets tricky.

I just shamelessly start saving their credentials into my bitwarden.

My relatives that I was able to train into using it, have their passwords shared with me via organizations. And I’m set up as their vault recovery.

I also have “parental” access to the location of my grandmas tablet and phone. Which also doubles as a way to see if she’s turned on airplane mode and isn’t getting our calls and messages.

Helping other people break back into their own accounts simply because they’ve forgotten the password is tediously frustrating

I’ve done it enough to start getting good at it.

At this point I’m kind of scared of how easy it is.

I’m at a point where if someone says they don’t remember a password, my next question is “can I see your phone for a second” and as long as they hand it to me unlocked I’ll be in the account in about two minutes.

Omg 😻

!smolmoe@ani.social

True passion. For MURDER!

Ah, I missed this in the finnish comms.

Signed. I’m livid that our fucking election infrastructure was recently outsourced to fucking Amazon.

How the hell is that independence?

I’m paraphrasing, but how is “you would all be better off on reddit” not an insult?

The disrespect expressed there is immense.

It’s not an argument, or piece of logic. It’s literally just “you are so wrong, you’re worse than collectively hated thing”.

Lizard time!