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  • I want to make the subtext text actually. When you speak with people on the internet in information security focused places you are most likely talking directly to cops and soldiers a good amount of the time and certainly in the presence of them.

  • I don’t feel one way or the other. Plenty of people instrumental to the company come from the natsec space though.

    That’s not in and of itself damning though. Infosec people are often cops or soldiers of one kind or another because that’s where the jobs are.

  • You are missing the middle of your troubleshooting process.

    Everything is physically plugged in, your dhcp device is doing its thing and the wire works.

    But does your os see the card? Post the output of ip address show to find out!

    If you wanna jump to the end, and I recommend you do not do that, your os has most likely recognized and automatically selected the fiber interface instead of the cat5 one.

  • Plenty of people are talking about how they did get sued and it’s working itself out.

    If you believe that crowdstrike is a normal company doing security then the fact that most of their customers stuck with them after the event shows they’re doing something right.

    If you believe crowdstrike is a natsec cutout then it won’t matter if they get sued.

  • Two things are happening: intel is trying to figure out how to deal with likely existential problems and their extremely mature product base doesn’t need those maintainers enough to offset supplying early retirement/buyout.

  • Hey I see that you found hd-idle.

    Last time I tried to use it it wasn’t compatible with smartmon.

    I would take smartmon over spin down every day of the week.

    I’m gonna go out on a limb and assume the reason you have this problem with power is that you’re running a zfs/md-raid 5 or whatever. It may be a good idea to get away from that configuration. When you write a file to a 3 disk pool with parity, all three drives spin up. The details are a whole nother can of worms but the way that operating systems, busses and hbas interact with disks make this even worse.

    I got away from that situation with a mergerfs/snapraid setup where my disks are jbod and writing a file to the pool only spins up one disk (with some caveats) and parity calculation is done at night as a snapshot all at once.

    I do not think this saves power, although my power use has been very low in this configuration. I do think this saves drives, because snapraid is decently judicious with spin up/spin down work, amassing all the changes first then calculating what to put where and doing that all at once.

    If your primary concern is power use and hard disk life, consider a ssd pool. The density and power consumption are why datacenters switched to them and why 3.5 racks are so cheap now in comparison.

  • You answered the most important question when another person asked it.

    You aren’t developing anything, so a distribution for development wouldn’t be necessary. If it were, it would be the distribution closest to the target environment.

    You’re learning, and anything is fine. Someone said Debian testing, that’s a good choice. You just want stuff to work and spend the barest minimum amount of time fiddling around with your environment so probably not Linux at all.

    You’ll find that the overwhelming majority of support materials in every language you listed will use windows or can be effectively used in windows. If you really need the Unix environment, they will probably first have examples in macos.

    So maybe consider using windows or macos.

    You’re not going to have an easier time learning2code on some esoteric distribution.