[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 4 points 8 months ago

Thanks,

bcachefs could be the answer but I don't really want my data on a fs I need this week's kernel to access properly. Maybe I should just hold off for a few months.

I'm not monitoring the drives, I have backups of important stuff...but would be nice to tag more important stuff amongst the mediocre stuff on the off chance both drives don't fail at the same time.

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I have a pi4 running on an ssd over usb3 with a usb3 dock that has 2x2TB drives for storage.

At the moment I have mainly music on one and mainly video on the other, with important stuff on both and elsewhere.

Is it sensible to combine 2x2TB hdd's via usb3 dock into a 4TB filesystem/pool/volume/thing......and if so can I have tiered storage so if one drive fails the other will have a mirror of important stuff?

[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 15 points 11 months ago

I think that's part of why he is being so careful with language, it's in line with him coming out to say homosexuality is not a crime earlier this year.

Hopefully this is just paving the way for further change but when the Church holds a lot of power in countries where lgbtq+ people are outlawed and heavily oppressed I can see why he's slowly introducing ideas like it's not against the law and being permissible to baptise.

I'm no fan of the RCC but if the pope quickly does a full 180 on these issues the church will likely fracture and the countries where things are pretty extreme will break away and, double down on the persecution and allow it to become an identity marker.

[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

Why?

Triple booting is a pita, moreso if you don't know how to partition a disk. I'd want any laptop encrypted, which adds further complexity to the triple boot.

If you wanna browse, research, watch videos and tinker just install a distro. If you wanna spend time switching your system off and on again over and over and over again to find out what's working/broken go for the triple boot.

Docker could be worth a shot. You can 'docker pull fedora/arch/debina/whatever' and can play around with the base systems. Alpine takes up about 6mib so isn't too resource intensive if you need to nuke it a few hundred times to get up and running.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

Transcoding anything >720p is painful.

I run ancient hardware for desktop/laptop >10yrs old apple stuff running linux. I consume media mainly via rpi4 or android.

What's a minimum level system capable of trans-coding 4k video to x265 in at the very least real time? Is there a tiny trans-coding device out there somewhere?

Would a NUC do? How old or new to churn out 4k x265

Can I avoid hardware? Are cloud gpu's a thing?

[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

https://youtu.be/HkOguZfNJUo

My only issue with kids on a flight is if I'm responsible for them. If they are someone else's problem, all is well.

[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Was worried for a minute I might not even be running linux, but neofetch has saved the day.

[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

Shit, you've just reminded me I've been running this install for months now and I don't even have neofetch installed.

Sorting immediately, not sure how I've managed these last few month.

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Will be doing a fresh install on an old laptop in the near future and was considering trying wayland.

Can you recommend a decent & light window manager & terminal emulator?

I've played around with wayland but always ended up back on xorg, was gonna give it another shot.

[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is it reasonable to advise someone who is new to this stuff on MacOS to just installl Ubuntu on VirtualBox?

[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

New to linux, think she needs a gui. I will look into UTM.

[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure there is a need to run linux on bare metal, or carry around a second laptop.

[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Sounds good, is there a simple guide to UTM on MacOS?

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My daughter is starting a college computing course next month and has been told they will be using linux.

She has a fairly recent, last 5yrs or less I think, intel macbook but knows nothing about linux or vm's.

I advised her to install Ubuntu in a VM when she asked about it, she asked how to do this. Initial thought is Virtualbox but I've not used MacOS since well before it became MacOS nor used VirtualBox in many years, have heard of new shiny new things like UTM, Parallels & VMWare.

Is it a reasonable suggestion to just use VirtualBox? Is there a better option?

Bit of a dad moment; "Just install Linux and then I can help you", "But how do I install Linux dad?"

[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

I think the little prick is out of jail now.

Maybe he's got Shorty Shitstain's Album too.

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