swordgeek

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[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca -2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

So slavery, then. No surprise.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

Games, economics, and politics aside...

FromSoft has to be about the worst name for a company ever.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

"Five mistakes" were actually one point repeated over and over, for a ten minute video.

In other words, clickbait.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Fuck off with your spam.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 weeks ago

Interesting points, but you're missing an important point: This isn't necessarily about the definition of what SHOULD be or MUST be preserved, but whether studios should be allowed to PREVENT it from being preserved by those who want to.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well, I've found some of the answer.

/volume1 is a single LV on a single VG - no surprise there. There are two PVs comprising it, each of which is a RAID5 group across an extended partition on the disks.

pv0 is /dev/sd[abcd]5 and pv1 is /dev/sd[abcd]6

Now what I find most interesting right now is that SHR supposedly required btrfs to operate - and yet, /volume01 is an ext4 filesystem.

Part of me would like to convert to btrfs, but I'd need a spare 10TB of storage just to back up to, before starting down that odyssey.

More digging, more questions.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I get what you're saying, but it never works like that.

You said it yourself: "I hope reddit exists to...be a breeding ground..." And it will. The worst of humanity will collect and fester and grow in numbers. And what's going to happen then? Some will spill over to here, and other 'safe' communities.

There's no way we can thrive and simultaneously isolate ourselves from assholery; and by encouraging it to thrive elsewhere, we're only expanding its power and reach; and at the same time, enriching and empowering asshole billionaires like spez, Zuck, Musk, etc.

No, we need to fight them. We need to wade hip-deep in the shit to shovel it down the drain, rather than hoping it'll just go away on its own.

Look at it another way: If you have a garden, what happens if you designate one corner as "the weed corner?" It grows, spreads, and takes over the rest of the garden.

 

Anyone an expert in Synology here?

Synology's Hybrid Raid (SHR) is a funky little system, especially since it's built on standard Linux tools.

What I'm wondering though, is how data is distributed when you change the disks in the system.

Imagine I have 2x1TB drives and 2x4TB drives in a system.

  • First it creates a 4x1TB "chunk" which is essentially RAID5. (3TB available)
  • Next it creates a 2x3TB chunk which acts like RAID1 (although internally may be calculated like a RAID5 parity.) (3TB available from this)

Now let's say I replace those two 1TB drives with 4TBs (safely, preserving data, etc.), and tell SHR to expand to use the new drives. I can see a number of scenarios from this point:

  • It mirrors the two new blocks into another 3TB chunk, giving me 9TB total. (3 from RAID5, 3 from first mirror pair, 3 from second mirror pair)
  • It expands the 3TB mirror into a second RAID5 group, giving 12TB total. (3 initial plus 9 in the second group)
  • It does the same thing and also rewrites the data on the (former) 3TB mirror pair to be striped across all four disks
  • It expands the 3TB mirror to RAID5, *and merges it with the original 3TB RAID group, giving a single 12TB RAID5.
  • Again it does the same thing but with rewriting of the data that was formerly just mirrored.

This isn't likely to be a huge deal, but I'd like to know how it works under the covers.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Yep, agreed. The biggest problem there is that Meta is generally not making life worse for its users than they're used to. Facebook and Instagram are giving you almost the same shitty experience you got a decade ago.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Nope.

If you encourage it, it will continue to fester and rot, and the entire internet will lower their expectations.

We need to destroy these companies. We need to smash them to pieces, and hey guess what - it's going to hurt a bit! We need to be prepared to stand up against evil, corrupt, racist, bigoted robber barons. We need to make some sacrifices to fix the internet.

Burn the fuckers to the ground, and let spez rot in a hole.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

It's true that Qobuz pays more per stream, although I've heard that they pay an amalgamated sum to the label instead of direct payment by artist.

Furthermore, while MQA was a bit of a bait-and-switch (basically lossy versions of much higher quality), Tidal always offered pure lossless as well.

Qobuz apparently has a better classical catalog, but worse customer support.

Basically, I've found Tidal to be - at this point - a bit ahead of Qobuz. Not a real complaint, just a "if I had to choose..." opinion.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Short summary: Tidal is the best overall.

Balancing the content, quality, and amount paid to artists, I put it on top.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 707 points 1 month ago (57 children)

There's still one protest possible.

LEAVE REDDIT!!! GET THE FUCK OFF OF IT! LET IT DIE. MAKE IT DIE!

Same with twitter.

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