Dog hardware ... with dog software I guess. Barks mostly reliably, but sometimes bugs out and keeps barking for no reason.

Next, show us your butthole by drawing it in the linux terminal

I have a raspberry pi running from a microsd (which uses the same kind of tech as a usb stick) for over 5 years with dietpi.

But considering that you think you chewed through an nvme somehow, you may be right.

The state of mind depends on sensory input.

I don't think we are arguing about the same scenario at all.

Here is an example of what I have in mind:

1. I work as a freelancer on a customers project.
2. In my computer I have an 128G NVME (15$) which is seperate from my OS where I put the data the customer entrusted me with and the project files
3. After the project, I take that NVME out, put it in a box on a shelf and buy a new one (15$) for the next project
4. Some time after project completion, I can either trash the drives or send them in bulk to some data erasure service, or leave them on my shelf for ever.

As opposed to

3. After the project, I take that NVME-1 out, put it in a box on a shelf and buy a new one for the next project (NVME-2)
4. for the project after that, I again take out NVME-2 and put it on a sheld, I get NVME-1 from my shelf, put it in, run secure erase for multiple hours before I can start working on the next project.

My argument is, that the cost of the first process is negligible compared to the effort and hassle of the second process, for a freelancer that earns over 6x the cost of such drive per hour.

I agree that it is worth it at scale, but for a freelancer it won't make much financial difference getting a new drive after a project.

Freelancers take about 100$ pee hour where I live. (and thats a low rate, usually it's more)

Whith theoretical possibilities like https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.10192v1 you still have to do multiple passes, which takes hours, even on an NVME.

Even running something like https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10446654 takes more than an hour.

A new 1TB nvme can be had for 60$ on amazon. Swapping it takes 5 minutes. So unless the client pays for the time, it is not worth it.

Great concept, but I don't live in the terminal and prefer GUI text editor features (like jumping the cursor with a mouseclick).

The workflow on the git page looks extremely clunky compared to a good old textfile.

Here is my personal approach to this.

• I have set my bash history to a ridiculous 1000000 max length, so that I can use CTRL+R to search for commands that I have ran before

• I write down a lot of commands in a searchable note text document

• Ask chatGPT

• Use the tldr command

• Added A LOT of verbose custom aliases and scripts. For example instead of

inotifywait -m -r --exclude "(/tmp.*|/var/cache.*|/dev/pts/|/var/log.*)" -e MOVED_TO -e CREATE -e CLOSE_WRITE -e DELETE -e MODIFY . (nobody can remember that alphabet gibberish)

I just type watch_for_changes .

Since it is verbose, straight from my brain, I always remember it and it works with autocomplete. I have like ~30 such commands so far.

I loathe to grind all the software setup, it's so dull, yet I have to concentrate to not fuck anything up.

Just wanted to vent.

Thank you 🫰

finish setting it up

I have all the hardware laying around collecting dust

Don't panic, thats just me running it on PC, laptop, worklaptop, pinenote, pinephone, steamdeck and in multiple VMs for experimentation. (and don't forget my randomized fingerprinting setup in the browser)