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  • Top post of PCMR on Reddit today XD

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  • It is such a beautiful system too. I would love to use it more, but nix and NixOS have kind of ruined every other operating system for me...

  • its true tho

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  • If you follow a certain orange website, until very recently there's been a big group of apologists who protect the big and mighty if any bad news surfaced.

    This has started to change, but the change is very recent. And in the startup ecosystem using a Mac is a standard and if you do not like them, you are considered weird and the latest social note keeping tool everybody else uses in the company has severe bugs on Linux, if it even works.

  • Music Players

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  • Plex and plexamp are quite good. Jellyfin and finamp too.

  • How to pickup girls 101

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  • I call it Wayland/Linux.

  • Edibles in Las Vegas

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  • We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave... So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high water mark — that place where the wave finally broke, and rolled back.

  • Do you forget that you need to update your system?

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  • It has the best integration with zfs, and has had that for a long time already.

  • Do you forget that you need to update your system?

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  • Yeah, also a bit wary of btrfs. I sure hope some day bcachefs can be the true cow filesystem in Linux. There is hope, it is pretty good already.

    NixOS definitely solves the issue of rollbacks the best here. And FreeBSD.

  • Skelly Boi Wants You To Remember

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  • Just a glass full of crushed ice and drink your water like a true American 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

    But to be serious, I'd like to have a water filter in my fridge. The water here has a bit too much calc to my taste.

  • Dead?

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  • That reminds me I should finally play Donkey Kong on game boy. It is supposedly the best game for the system...

  • Skelly Boi Wants You To Remember

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  • ...in US. Pretty rare in the EU where apartments usually come with the cheapest fridge available.

  • Do you forget that you need to update your system?

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  • Laughs in NixOS, smiles in btrfs snapshots.

  • Warning: HAOS may become unbootable after upgrade from 12.1 -> 12.2

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  • Whew! I think I dodged the bullet. Upgraded today and it boots just fine. Running HAOS in a vm, so that might be the reason...

  • ext2: mark as deprecated - kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree

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  • For sure. I would say if you run a distro like Arch, using it without cow filesystem and snapshots is not a good idea... You can even integrate snapshots with pacman and bootloader.

    I've been running nixos for so long, that I don't really need snapshots. You can always boot to the previous state if needed.

    If you write software and run tests against a database, I'd avoid having the docker volumes on btrfs pool. The performance is not great.

  • ext2: mark as deprecated - kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree

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  • Yeah. I would not for example install ZFS to a laptop. It's just not great there, and it doesn't like things such as sudden power failure, and it uses kind of a lot of memory...

  • ext2: mark as deprecated - kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree

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  • ZFS is still the de-facto standard of a reliable filesystem. It's super stable, and annoyingly strict on what you can do with it. Their Raid5 and Raid6 support are the only available software raids in those levels that are guaranteed to not eat your data. I've run a TrueNAS server with Raid6 for years now, with absolutely no issues and tens of terabytes of data.

    But, these copy on write filesystems such as ZFS or btrfs are not great for all purposes. For example running a Postgres server on any CoW filesystem will require a lot of tweaking to get reasonable speeds with the database. It's doable, but it's a lot of settings to change.

    About the code quality of Linux filesystems, Kent Overstreet, the author of the next new CoW filesystem bcachefs, has a good write-up of the ups and downs:

    • ext4, which works - mostly - but is showing its age. The codebase terrifies most filesystem developers who have had to work on it, and heavy users still run into terrifying performance and data corruption bugs with frightening regularity. The general opinion of filesystem developers is that it's a miracle it works as well as it does, and ext4's best feature is its fsck (which does indeed work miracles).
    • xfs, which is reliable and robust but still fundamentally a classical design - it's designed around update in place, not copy on write (COW). As someone who's both read and written quite a bit of filesystem code, the xfs developers (and Dave Chinner in particular) routinely impress me with just how rigorous their code is - the quality of the xfs code is genuinely head and shoulders above any other upstream filesystem. Unfortunately, there is a long list of very desirable features that are not really possible in a non COW filesystem, and it is generally recognized that xfs will not be the vehicle for those features.
    • btrfs, which was supposed to be Linux's next generation COW filesystem - Linux's answer to zfs. Unfortunately, too much code was written too quickly without focusing on getting the core design correct first, and now it has too many design mistakes baked into the on disk format and an enormous, messy codebase - bigger that xfs. It's taken far too long to stabilize as well - poisoning the well for future filesystems because too many people were burned on btrfs, repeatedly (e.g. Fedora's tried to switch to btrfs multiple times and had to switch at the last minute, and server vendors who years ago hoped to one day roll out btrfs are now quietly migrating to xfs instead).
    • zfs, to which we all owe a debt for showing us what could be done in a COW filesystem, but is never going to be a first class citizen on Linux. Also, they made certain design compromises that I can't fault them for - but it's possible to better. (Primarily, zfs is block based, not extent based, whereas all other modern filesystems have been extent based for years: the reason they did this is that extents plus snapshots are really hard).

    I started evaluating bcachefs in my main workstation when it arrived to the stable kernels. It can do pretty good raid-1 with encryption and compression. This combination is not really available integrated to the filesystem in anywhere else but zfs. And zfs doesn't work with all the kernels, which prevents updating to the latest and greatest. It is already a pretty usable system, and in a few years will probably take the crown as the default filesystem in mainstream distros.

  • Which DE/WM do you prefer?

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  • Used i3 and then sway almost a decade. When Plasma 6 arrived, I just wanted to try it out and it just kind of stuck to me. Lovely desktop.

  • YouTube is severely rate limiting Invidious instances

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  • I run Piped from my homelab, from our home IP. I wonder if they will limit our home too...

  • Asking a Linux user to recommend a printer

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  • In Germany, we have a health insurance card. Let's say your insurer is Techniker Krankenkasse. They provide you a card with your photo and an NFC chip. You show this card in any doctor/hospital you visit, and your expenses are all paid. Today, as a new feature, your prescriptions are also stored to this card. You show the card in the pharmacy, get your medicine and the costs are all paid by the insurance company (minus the co-pay, 10 euros, which you pay by yourself).

    Edit: To be clear, we don't have public hospitals or doctors. They're all private. But the insurance can be public, and the doctors and hospitals accept your public insurance and you don't need to pay for them.

  • Asking a Linux user to recommend a printer

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  • Nowadays you can get your prescription into your insurance card... Finally. You still need to walk to the doctor's office though. But it is digital.