filister

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[–] filister@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I am wondering how come so many countries "suddenly" strengthened the tone and then I realised that they did that just because the US administration had shown publicly that they are running out of patience with them. So don't fool yourself, all the European countries are too afraid of the US policies and would only protest when the US president is showing frustration.

That's sad and morally bankrupt. Why protest an aid and humanitarian blockade after 11 weeks. 11 weeks there was very little condemnation and then boom!

[–] filister@lemmy.world 28 points 12 hours ago

Exactly that. Everyone is obsessed with eternal growth, pushing SaaS offerings our throats and even more subscriptions. There is a real estate crisis, where putting a roof over your head becomes an even more distant dream for the majority of the working population and greedy companies are firing people and replacing them with AI and then they wonder why people are revolting. Eat the rich!

[–] filister@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

It is just immutable modded Arch Linux with some particular optimisations. While I am sure the task to create it is not so trivial. I am also sure that their hardware engineers put immense effort into designing and building the Steam Deck, which is no small feat. Selecting the components, thermal design, power design etc. considerations that need to be taken into account while building such a device is very challenging, I am sure and their hardware engineers did an excellent job. That's why the Steam Deck is also so much superior to rival handheld devices.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 134 points 1 week ago

Defending human rights and condemning war crimes is now punishable.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sometimes I wonder if he is really that stupid or is just pretending.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Typical bully.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I have a physical CD of Ubuntu 6.10, back then they were distributing those over the mail and a friend of mine ordered some and gave me. I still keep it.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I also played it on 2.1 and the game was absolutely amazing. The story was engaging, and the world was absolutely stunning.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago (3 children)

And here you have it how Germany turned like this during WWII. Propaganda, and dehumanization of the adversaries. As you can see this is still possible even now.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, sorry, my bad. Plus that's not really beginner friendly distro

 

I am looking for recommendations for some good historical fiction books. I am mostly interested in books about mediaeval times or even earlier, as I find it fascinating to understand the struggles of the people back then, but I am also open to any suggestions if worthy.

 

I would like to buy myself a second hand and install Linux on it. I was looking into ThinkPad T14 gen1 or gen2 devices because of their maintainability and repairability. I found one where I live with a Ryzen processor but it has the wrong keyboard. How easy and expensive would it be to swap this with US English? Are there any good alternatives to the ThinkPads? I fancy the X1 but don't like the fact that I cannot change or swap anything on it. The T14 looks very bulky and unattractive but at least can have the RAM upgraded and the battery changed.

I fancy the Framework laptops, but don't want to spend so much on a laptop. Especially the latest 16 inch with Ryzen AI CPUs.

The T14 G1 is at least cheap, like 350€ with the 400 nits low power display and the battery is at 99%. I guess with tlp installed and autocpugfreq I can get 5-6 hours out of it.

 

I am building a Proxmox server running on an SFF PC. Right now I have:

  • 1 x 250 GB Kingston A400 Sata SSD
  • 1 x 512 Gb Samsung NVMe 970 Evo Plus
  • 1 x 512 Gb Kingston NVMe KC3000
  • 1 x 12 Tb Seagate Ironwolf Re-certified disk

I plan to install Proxmox on the 250Gb Kingston disk using ext4 and use it only for Proxmox and nothing else.

I am thinking of configuring ZFS mirrored raid on the two NVMe disks. Here one disk is on my mobo, and the other is connected to the PCIe slot with an adapter, as I have only one M2 slot on the mobo. I plan to use this zpool for VMs and containers.

Finally, the re-certified 12 Tb disk is currently going through a long smarctl test to confirm that it is usable and it is supposed to be used primarily for storing media and non-critical data and VM snapshots, which I don't care much about it. I will in parallel most likely adopt the critical data to a cloud location as an additional way to protect my most important data.

My question is should I be really concerned about the lack of DRAM in the Kingston A400 SSD and its relatively low TBW endurance (85 TB) in case I would run it only to boot Proxmox from it and I think the wear out of the drive would be negligible.

  • I have the option to exchange the Proxmox boot drive with a proper SSD, like a Samsung 870 Evo (SATA SSD, using MLC NAND and having DRAM cache). I would of course need to pay around 60% more but I am just thinking that this might be an overkill.
  • Do you think that using ZFS pool for the two NVMe drives will wear them out very quickly? I will have 3-4 VMs and a bunch of containers.
  • Is the use of a slow Proxmox boot drive (SATA SSD) going to slow down the VMs and containers as they will run on much quicker NVMe SSDs, or it won't matter?
  • Shall I format the Seagate HDD in xfs to speed up the transfer of large files or shall I stick to ext4?
  • What other tests shall I run to confirm that the HDD is indeed fine and I can use it?
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