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I saw this on Mastodon the other day and started digging into it. Seems like a really cool project although the chip they used appears inferior to the ESP32? I found a few similar projects based on the ESP32 but they seem to be limited to wifi/bluetooth captures only with the possibility of other options if you swap out the firmware. This makes me question why the ESP32 with 4MB of flash cannot do much more than the Flipper Zero with its 1MB of flash and a CPU that runs at 1/3 the speed (or less) and only a single core? Anyone have some ideas, and/or have seen other open projects based on the ESP32 that do all and more that the Flipper Zero can do?

Welcome to 1980, Microsoft (or 1993 if you're feeling really generous).

One big problem is going to be that political supporters have been more than willing to assume anything they don't like about their candidate is a "deep fake", regardless of the fact that this has only been a recent possibility. You could have an authentic video of their favorite candidate telling everyone how stupid their supporters are, and those supporters will never believe it (or vice-versa, that easily-detectable fakes are made to smear a candidate, and the opposition will gobble it up).

Yeah we're going to see a lot of disgusting stuff like fake porns, but that was already being made on still photos so of course we're going to start seeing videos now. I think it will be interesting to see what happens in Hollywood, where actor's voices are already being used without their consent. If laws get passed to discourage such things (and we've just seen the FCC ban the use of faking politician's voices), they can also be used to curb other fakes of real people. I think that will help, but in the meantime it's still the Wild West of AI-generated content.

I dunno, like I said zfs is pretty damn good at recovery. If the drives simply drop out but there's no hardware fault you should be able to clear the errors and bring the pool back up again. And the chances of two drives failing at the same time are pretty low. One of these days I do need to buy a spare to have on hand though. Maybe I'll even swap out one drive just to see how long it takes to rebuild.

My current setup is eight 18TB Exos drives, all purchased from Amazon's refurb shop, and running in a RAIDz2. I'm pulling about 450MB/s through various tests on a system that is in use. I've been running this about a year now and smartd hasn't detected any issues. I have almost never run new drives for my storage and the only time I've ever lost data was back when I was running mdadm and a power glitch broke the sync on multiple drives so the array couldn't be recovered. With zfs I have even run a RAID0 with five drives which saw multiple power incidents (before I got a redundant power supply) and I never once lost anything because of zfs' awesome error detection.

So yes, used drives can be just fine as long as you do your research on the drive models, have a very solid power supply, and are configured for hot-swapping so you can replace a drive when they fail. Of course that's solid advice even for brand new drives, but my last set of used drives (also from ebay) lasted about a decade before it was time to upgrade. Sure, individual drives took a dump over that time, this was another set of eight and I replaced three of them, but the data was always safe.

Ugh... still? I knew the mail app had shitty support for it and had to create an IPv4-only dns entry for my mail server, I didn't realize the whole system was broken. Ah well, despite being an android user myself I would still place it in the bucket of "not modern" because there's really no excuse for something like this.

What do you consider a fair amount? My current server has 64GB of ram but arc_summary says ZFS is only using 6.35GB on a system with three ZFS pools totaling over 105TB of storage under pretty much constant usage.

Seriously? How can any device call themselves current gen and not support something as basic as this? That's just embarrassing.

Yikes. I get free IPv6 for my servers through Hurricane Electric since my ISP doesn't provide it yet, I wonder if their service also works on AWS? I mean come on, if someone like Comcast can figure it out, why is it so hard for a major player like Amazon?

All it takes is one big company like Amazon changing their services to IPv6-only and most of the world would be converted over in a month or two... but now I guess we know the reason WHY Amazon doesn't push such a policy.

No matter how you go about it, getting these drives set up to be reliable isn't going to be cheap. If you want to run without an enclosure, at the very least (and assuming you are running Linux) you are going to want something like LSI SAS cards with external ports, preferably a 4-port card (around $50-$100, each port will run four drives) that you can flash into IT mode. You will need matching splitter cables (3x $25 each). And most importantly you need a VERY solid power supply, preferably something with redundancy (probably $100 or more). These prices are based on used hardware from ebay, except for the cables, and you'll have to do some considerable research to learn how to flash the SAS cards, and which ones can be flashed.

Of course this is very bare-bones, you won't have a case to mount the drives in, and splitter cables from the power supply can be finicky, but with time and experience it can be made to work very well. My current NAS is capable of handling up to 32 external and 8 internal drives and I'm using 3D-printed drive cages with some cheap SATA2 backplanes to finally get a rock-solid setup. It takes a lot of work and experience to do things cheaply.

The core of Ubuntu is built on Debian, but the maintainers create a lot of their own packages based on the latest versions of software available. So for example both distributions have a version of Python available, but the one in Ubuntu might be the very latest release while the one in Debian may be several months old because it goes through more testing. I like to compare their usage to the difference between using Ubuntu for a desktop computer (where it's not the end of the world if something breaks) to using Debian for a server (where you absolutely need rock-solid services that will never fail you). And of course Ubuntu and Debian are not your only choices, there are even other distributions which are based on Debian or Ubuntu, several distributions based on Redhat, and plenty of others which are completely built in other ways. If you really want to learn the nuts and bolts of it, check into the Linux-from-scratch project which walks you through building your own system completely from compiled source code.

Now the desktop environment is a whole different thing, and Linux gives you a lot of choices there too, from very lightweight desktops that could run on a twenty year old computer to much heavier desktops with a ton on features which require more modern hardware. The nice thing about desktop environments is you're not stuck with just one. You can actually load up several and choose which one to load when you log in to the desktop, then later on dump the ones you don't like. So the important thing is finding a base OS you like first, then everything on top of that can be changed as you learn more about Linux.