BearOfaTime

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I do too, but it's a dog. So damn slow.

Outlook is fast, and that's important

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

MD sucks balls, I despise this crap. It makes a less obvious distinction between elements to look cool, or new or intriguing, or different, or whatever bullshit UI designers come up with.

UI everywhere has been going backwards for 10-15 years now. Giant ovals with text for the Quick Settings buttons is an improvement? More swipes is better? Less contrast in a browser/app window is better?

Oh yea, let's remove color from status bar icons ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿผโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

As someone who's worked for such companies since the mid-90's, it's common knowledge that run-and-maintain isn't appreciated, only doing new things is.

Someone who keeps things from failing is much more at risk during layoffs than those who work only on new projects.

Gonna call me a liar now?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

But you only get the storage capacity of the smallest drive, right? So in a 5 drive RAID, if one drive is 1TB and the rest are 5TB, it's 1TBx5

It's been a while since I setup UnRAID, not sure if I remember right.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Spot on.

Plan a little for growth, maybe a 5 drive unit with 12TB drives, with duplicate parity.

Optionally: Two 20 TB drives mirrored, cloud backup (e.g. Storj. io or another), perhaps another local 20TB drive that's a backup or a local replica.

Edit: any approach needs to include off-site backup, and that backup needs to be tested, at least quarterly.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yea, the amount of stuff destroyed (or just lost) by airlines every day is staggering.

I used to fly for work, I bought high quality, expensive bags, once. My shit was always fucked up, lost more times than I could count. I stopped checking bags - I need my shit when I get there, since it's work. I don't have 3 days to wait, I'm only on-site for that long.

There's a reason why pilots have aluminum-framed bags, and they don't even check theirs.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Yea, I callin BS right out of the gate.

I've never seen any dog have an issue with bacon. Hell, all my vet acquaintances years ago poured leftover bacon fat onto their kibble.

It seems like cool guides is just be a bad format for most things as it lacks nuance.

And then you have the judgement of whoever makes the list - pretty much every list I see here, someone comments how wrong it is.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

But I still have off-site backup

I also have extensive emergency planning that's documented and practiced. I know what's valuable, and what isn't. Valuable stuff is already protected or planned for, not stuff I need to grab.

If I needed to leave, right now, I'd be out the door in under 5 minutes and have 3 day's supply of food and water (with a compact cook kit), a week of clothes including cold-weather gear, phone chargers, batteries, flashlights, blankets, spare sunglasses, medicines, first aid kit, a small tool kit, spare glasses, etc, etc. And this list of stuff is documented.

Grabbing my little 5lb NAS is a trivial add-on that was only added to the list once everything else was organized. And it has its own bag, only need the NAS and power supply. I've added a handle to it (mostly to make it easy to move around), and everything has large, clear labels (no guessing which power supply goes with what device).

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Ah, thanks for the clarification. That makes a lot of sense.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Even Firefox has this issue, which is what this post is about, really - obfuscating functionality.

Peak UI was about 15 years ago. Now it's all dark patterns to get you to do only what they want you to do.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Since it sounds like front engages less (being an open diff, I guess they use the brakes to bias torque between sides), I'd go there.

In my opinion, the concern over tire replacement is overblown, especially with systems like Audi uses. Subaru uses a full-time system, that would be more concerning, but even there I'm not so sure any more.

I'm sure your LSD is some kind of hydrostatic, that was Audi's claim to fame from the start. Hydroststics don't care one whit about different wheel speeds.

Even a Quaife (torque-biasing using gears) wouldn't really care all that much, and it would effectively be engaging all the time... Which they kind of are anyway.

Clutch-based LSDs (old style, just springs and plates) would be a concern because it would cause more wear there, but you don't see those on road cars. Modern clutch-based diffs like Bendix supplies to Honda (and other companies) wouldn't care, since each rear wheel is independently (wet) clutched, and the clutches are electro-hydraulically controlled. It would simply compensate for slip, like it's already doing all the time anyway.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Seaweed.

Enlarge the video and it's pretty clear

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