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@Cornflake I prefer good old fashioned dump/restore, but whatever works for you. Most people seem to opt for no backups at all, obviously not a good choice.

@solrize Well it could be worse, I still have an old Dell Inspiron with it's original 2.5" 3600 RPM ultra-slow hard drive. Now that the battery has finally given up the ghost, I am going to replace it with an SSD while I have it open to change out the battery, but because the nvme slot on this machine only supports a max of 500GB, I am going with SATA.

@solrize You want to use nvme rather than sata if possible, particularly if a high end ssd as the absolute max speed you can get with sata is 6gb/s and also using a sata ssd will often make one or two sata ports not function.

@CrisColor A lot of people mistake kind for being fake and not ever expressing disagreement, but doing so neuters what is in my view one of the most valuable aspects of these federated social media, the potential for opposing view points to be expressed and then discussed and hopefully some mutually beneficial solutions that accommodate both sides of an opposing viewpoint can be arrived at. That can't happen unless an environment is safe and inviting and people can act in a civilized manner.

@umbraroze @ALostInquirer On the Subject of pixelfed, I recently (about a month ago) brought up pixelfed.eskimo.com/, but I seem not to be able to get it to federate. Any tips?

@FooBarrington You didn't just specify memory safe, you advocated stripping away a number of features. Yes memory safe anything is a good idea and I've got no objection to the use of rust, I think it's a good language, one of the few worthwhile efforts to emerge in recent years, but if it is going go be re-implemented, do so fully. Yes, anything that runs with privileges should be memory safe else it's open to attack and Rust certainly makes that more possible, I am just concerned about the limiting feature set aspect. I'm not in favor of protecting users from themselves, I don't want a car that is capable of reading speed limit signs and prevents me from exceeding them even if doing so might be unsafe or illegal, that not the car manufacturers job to be come an arm of the government, likewise I don't want Linux protecting me from myself, I already address potentials with regular backups, etc.

@FauxLiving I've been using Ubuntu for about 14 years and in the past they've been at least somewhat interested in user input. I hope "don't become another fucking Microsoft" is a message that Canonical gets.

@somethingsomethingidk Lightdm stopped working for me on several machines with nVidia graphics after updating to 6.14.4 and 6.14.5, but machines with Intel UHD630 graphics continue to function in terms of their display.

@FooBarrington What you are advocating is taking power away from the user. Go install WIndows 11 if this is what you want punk.

Take all the power away from the end user and give it all to Poettering, NO FUCKING THANKS.

It also protects them from a sense of personal responsibility knowing their true identity can't be easily traced. This is what Mastodon doesn't like about them.

The BIOS does not know about the RAID, the is why the EFI partition has to be a regular partition, but there is nothing forbidding more than one EFI partition so simply duplicating that across both drives ensures the same redundancy the RAID offers, but GRUB DOES know about RAID 1, so if you setup a raid1 array as the boot partition and then just write the boot block to both drives along with the EFI partition you can RAID everything except the EFI boot partition. Sorry your motherboard reduces your speed if you have more than one nvme, sounds very odd. Mine does share bandwidth if the SSD's are SATA but NOT if they are nvme.

Can you do it? Yes. Will the performance suck outright? Yes. Nextcloud is a pig. I run it on an 18-core i9-10980xe server clocked at 4.5 Ghz with 256GB of RAM, with RAIDED nvme disk, and I don't find the performance adequate on this platform.

Censorverse... If you don't tow the line we'll de-federate you, this aspect of Lemmy defeats the entire purpose of federation, might as well just call it Facebook II.

You don't need a RAID controller, I have dual NVME set up with RAID1 and boot off the RAID one partition, the only partition I can't raid is the EFI partition because BIOS doesn't know about it, but that I simply duplicate by hand on both drives using dd, since it only gets updated at kernel updates, it just adds a dd to the kernel upgrade process.

Between bash (and the 40 or so other shells available under Linux), python, perl, and the several hundred other scripting languages already available, is a dedicated job control language really needed? I think unnecessary fluff.

If you can get a few hundred watts of electrical power, StarLink is an option for broadband connectivity via satellite when all the local communications are down. Don't know why, but Star Link reminds me of Sky Net.

@warmaster @aptinstallcoffee No it is also possible with Intel, it was in fact possible with Intel BEFORE nVidia.

Best bet when installing a second OS is to MANUALLY partition, select the existing fat-32 efi partition for efi, write the boot block to the drive you're going to boot off of, and choose free space for the remaining required partitions.

systemd-analyze blame will give you information about where the delays are occurring.