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  • If by "no, not even now", you're referring to how the incPliny US administration is basically Ronald 2.0, I'm right there with you.

  • Did I mix them up? In case somebody didn't know what the trolley problem was, I figured i'd link to that, but got to my bus stop before I could find the original shower thought. I still haven't figured out how to find stuff in Lemmy.

  • There was a shower thought the other day on Lemmy that said that the whole situation is a real life trolley problem.

  • I didn't realize how badly I want to do this until you said (wrote) it.

  • You have some good points. I'm curious about the scenario where you need encrypted communications with an untrusted party.

    I guess if you are leaking insider information to the press and need to be anonymous, but then use an anonymous account. Why would you need to send information to someone but not trust them to use the information responsibly?

  • I've been wanting to try it for a while now, but I'm too cheap to buy a phone that can run it.

  • I am interested in compression. I may give it a try when I swap out my desktop system. I did try btrfs in it's early, post alpha stage, but found that the support was not ready yet. I think I had a VM system that complained. It is older now and more mature and maybe it's worth another look.

  • Those are some good points. I guess I was thinking about the hardware. At least where I do RAID, it's on the controller, so that offloads much of the parity checking and such to the controller and not the CPU. It's all probably negligible for the apps that I run, but my hardware is quite old, so maybe trying to squeeze all the performance I can is a worthwhile activity.

  • Generally, if a lower level can do a thing, I prefer to have the lower level do it. It's not really a reason, just a rule of thumb. I like to think that the lower level is more efficient to do the thing.

    I use LVM snapshots to do my backups. I don't have any other reason for it.

    That all being said, I'm using btrfs on one system and if I really like it, I may migrate to it. It does seem a whole lot simpler to have one thing to learn than all the layers.

  • Regularly assess the goals that you had when starting the endeavor and decide if you'd start the initiative then if you had the information you have now. What investment is lost if you stop now?

    If this is about relationships, that's another story.

  • I used to be an IT consultant.

  • I've got raid 6 at the base level and LVM for partitioning and ext4 filesystem for a k8s setup. Based on this, btrfs doesn't provide me with any advantages that I don't already have at a lower level.

    Additionaly, for my system, btrfs uses more bits per file or something such that I was running out of disk space vs ext4. Yeah, I can go buy more disks, but I like to think that I'm running at peak efficiency, using all the bits, with no waste.

  • Aging helps. I'm not sure how or why, but these days, I couldnl't care less about what strangers think of me.

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  • I am consistently disappointed to see the top posts say to not buy a car whenever news like this comes out.

    Your post at least provides an alternative.

  • I think your comment is the key. Many others tell what to do, but yours addresses the core in that you won't be happy unless you decide or allow yourself to be happy (perception).

    I used to mock those people who would say things like "smile in the mirror and tell yourself that it's going to be a great day". Later in life, I figured out that that's what they needed to do, so good for them. For me, it's something else. I need to be around nature to ground my feelings. Other times, it's physical cardiac exertion, like a bike ride.

    Medication can help if there's a real medical problem, like depression. Self medicating can be dangerous.

  • That is the plan. Imagine an app that can provide personalized pricing to extract just less than the amount that would cause you to go elsewhere?

    It knows when you get paid and can splurge. It knows when you are drunk or high and have less self control. It's the digital pricing tags at the grocery store, but personalized to you (and not with your best interests in mind).

  • I've done this same thing. My dad lived on the other side of the country and it was a way for me to "take him out to eat" at a restaurant that he loved but was too expe dive for his tastes. Another time, I bought him a round of golf at a nice golf course that he would not treat himself to. He did not "believe" in gift cards wither, but on both occasions he mentioned that it was as if I took him to eat/golf and it was a nice gift for the guy who has everything.

  • Similarly, I have a cuckoo clock. I could watch the internal mechanism for hours.

  • Given my skill with 3d model creation, i'd be more likely to create something that would hurt me than inflicting harm on someone else. Mostly when I take that razor sharp tool to remove anything from the build plate, but also just my awful measurements and tolerances.