Do not split a RAID array across drives in separate USB enclosures.

Doing RAID on USB drives is alright, as long as they’re all in the same enclosure and use a single USB interface. If you split an array between drives with separate USB interfaces, you will face corruption and rebuild issues when one of the controllers has a hiccup or comes up slower/faster than the other, which WILL happen. If you need to run a RAID array on USB-connected drives, use a 2-bay USB-connected DAS. I’ve used the QNAP TR-002 in the past, it works fine, just set it to individual mode.

The better option since we’re just talking about a mirror, is to run on one drive primarily, and occasionally sync your data to the other for a backup.

Shut off and leave your phone at home, buy a pay-as-you-go to bring with you for emergency contact/coordination

4-bay DAS with a handful of big HDDs in RAIDZ1. Load it up, then store it in your office at work or at a friend or family member’s house. Retrieve, update, and scrub somewhere between once every few weeks to once every few months, depending on how often your critical data is changing.

Yes, because the argument was never “we’ll have fusion in 20 years”, it’s always been “we COULD have fusion in 20 years IF research was properly funded”. It’s never been properly funded, hence it’s always 20 years away.

It’s a bit like my boss coming to ask me how long it would take to do project X. I tell him 6 months after we get funding. We don’t get funding. 6 months later he comes and asks me how long it would take to do project X. I tell him 6 months after we get funding. Queue shocked Pikachu face that the estimate is still 6 months, 6 months later.

Notifications will go a long way toward helping with that. Check all assumptions, check all exit codes, notify and stop if anything is amiss. I also have my backup script notify on success, with the time it took to back up and the size and delta size (versus the previous backup) of the resulting backup. 99% of errors get caught by the checks and I get a failure notification. But just in case something silently goes wrong, the size of the backup (too big or too small) is another obvious indicator that something went wrong.

Anyone who would sign up for a porn website using their .gov email address deserves to have it leaked

From what I’ve read about the issue middle mouse click to paste overwrites normal expected behaviour in some applications

Applications can override the behavior. I have several applications I use on a daily basis that use the middle mouse for panning and they work fine. If other applications don’t, that’s their own fault. Forcing users to disable a useful feature system-wide so a couple lazy applications can get away with buggy code is not a reasonable solution.

I only use a few applications where middle click panning makes sense, and it works fine, middle click paste has no effect. If some applications don’t handle panning properly, that’s a bug in those applications. Why on earth should we disable a useful feature system-wide so a couple buggy applications can get away with shoddy code?

No, middle click paste has nothing to do with middle mouse scroll, or middle click open-in-new-window. They’re independent functions, and all 3 can work together just fine. Disabling middle click paste has absolutely no upside that I can think of. Unless they’re going to replace middle click paste with something more useful, I don’t understand this push.

These modern app devs can pry my ncurses TUIs from my cold dead fingers

It’s happening at a lot of companies. Last year our C-suite cancelled some big IR&D projects (where we were designing real products that could actually be built and sold) in order to dump $300k/mo into renting a cloud AI infrastructure that none of the employees want or use.

Pretty awful, from what I’ve heard, and PCIe passthrough into VMs is a nightmare for Intel cards as well. Again, no experience myself, but from everything I’ve read it appears to go AMD > NVIDIA >> Intel as far as Linux support for dGPUs is concerned.

Median average salary in 1947 was $36,000

Where did you get that? That’s not what your link says at all. $36k was the median salary around 20 years ago, not 80 years ago.

What are you talking about?

Depends on what you’re buying. Wiredzone and Provantage are solid for enterprise/workstation gear, and for anything storage or camera related B&H is my go-to.

Average wage index in 1999: $30,469.84

Average wage index in 2023: $66,621.80

So wages roughly doubled, while the house now costs 8x as much. Yep, sounds about right.

The hard links aren’t between the source and backup, they’re between Friday’s backup and Saturday’s backup