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xyguy

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  • Questions about migrating a ZFS RAID

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    1. The order doesnt matter as long as they are the same drives, you dont have a usb dock or raid card in front of them (ie sata/sas/nvme only)and you have enough of them to rebuild the array. Ideally all of them but in a dire situation you can rebuild based on 2 out of 3 of a Raid Z1
    2. You can do that, you shouldn't but you can. I've done something similar before in a nasty recovery situation and it worked but don't do it unless you have no other option. I highly recommend just downloading the config file from your current truenas box and importing it into a fresh install on a proper drive on your new machine.
    3. Sort of already mentioned it but you can take your drives, plug them into your new machine. Install a fresh Truenas scale and then just import the config file from your current setup and you should be off to the races. Your main gotcha is if the pool is encrypted. If you lose access to the key you are donezo forever. If not, the import has always been pretty straightforward and ive never had any issues with it.
    4. Lots of people virtualize truenas and lots of people virtualize firewalls too. To me, the ungodly amount of stupid edge cases, especially with consumer hardware that break hardware passthrough on disks (which truenas/zfs needs to work properly) is never worth it.

  • It's time to move to Linux - YouTube

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  • That would lower the barrier to entry significantly. It doesn't address the issues with the bios but someone mildly adventurous would have a much easier time going forward.

    I think something like that would have to be sponsored by and maintained by a big distro though. I'm afraid if it was a community effort the amount of bikeshedding would stop it before it even began.

  • It's time to move to Linux - YouTube

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  • Linux pre installed is the only way for most people to use it I'm afraid.

  • It's time to move to Linux - YouTube

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  • Fedora does btrfs snapshots on boot also, which is such a great feature that I'm surprised Microsoft hasn't copied it for Windows.

  • It's time to move to Linux - YouTube

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  • This is definitely the case. And by the time someone is willing to experiment with their PC its so old that the experience with Linux is hampered by the older hardware.

  • It's time to move to Linux - YouTube

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  • Definitely. I can genuinely say that the autotiling in PopOS completely changed my workflow for the better.

  • It's time to move to Linux - YouTube

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  • Absolutely. If Linux was pre installed that's what people would use. Its the switching to Linux from something else that proves so complicated.

  • It's time to move to Linux - YouTube

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  • Mostly just so they know which boot device to pick.

    Admittedly that's probably not necessary or the least of someone's issues.

  • It's time to move to Linux - YouTube

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  • God i wish. And most everyone here could install a new operating system in about 20 minutes. But nobody else is going to because the learning curve for a regular user to install an os is basically perpendicular. Even if they had a linux installer already on a flash drive.

    Oh just boot into the bios and find the option to boot for a flash drive and then boom installed.

    Which requires a user to know, What a bios is

    What booting means

    What boot options mean

    What the model of their flash drive is

    What button on their keyboard they need to press to get to the bios

    What secure boot is

    Where they need to go to turn off secure boot

    How and where to back up their important files

    What a disk partition is

    How to reverse the changes made to the bios so that it doesn't boot to usb by default.

    And that's assuming they know why they want a different OS, why they care and that they know about Linux in the first place.

    Most people dont and never will. All you can do is install Linux for the ones you like the most and say a prayer to your favorite deity for the rest.

  • Dr. Pulaski Appreciation Post

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  • This video sums up my feelings exactly. Thanks for the recommendation. They are a lot more articulate than I was.

  • Dr. Pulaski Appreciation Post

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  • I think that's something that gets forgotten. Season 2 gets skipped through a lot during rewatches I know. All anyone remembers is her being racist to data.

    She starts out mean to Data but she comes around by the end of the season. She is also a former lover of Kyle Riker, which could have made for a much more interesting dynamic for and with Riker if it had continued.

  • Dr. Pulaski Appreciation Post

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  • I agree. And its a real shame. I also remember seeing Pulaski sitting in the chair next to Picard relatively often where I think of Crusher being in the medical bay far more. That could just be my own memory though.

  • Period Piece Rule

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  • Why is replacement for home device controls so complicated?

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  • I actually run mine in a 12 year old castoff Thinkpad. 4 GB ram total. More than enough to run it because I run a DNS server, a dashboard and a speedtest server on the same machine.

  • Why I Lost Faith in Kagi

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  • That was my main take-away. You're the CEO of the company. If someone writes a mean blog post about your business so what? Fix the issues with the product if they are legitimate things that need fixing. Otherwise leave people alone. If something constitutes libel then sue. Otherwise it's just someones opinion which they are entitled to.

    No I have a bad opinion about him as well (please don't reach out to me either).

  • “Untitled Star Trek Origin Story” film officially added to Paramount Pictures' 2025-2026 lineup.

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  • I think they mean Seth Grahme-Smith, author of Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.

    So I'm down. Please not too many pew pew space battles. You can include Abe Lincoln if appropriate. That is precedented and canonical for Star Trek.

  • Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100

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  • Only 1000 times? It's interesting that there's such a bias there but it's a computer. Ask it 100,000 times and make sure it's not a fluke.

  • Star Wars Outlaws' $110 and $130 editions prompt a collective sigh from potential players tired of season passes and ill-advised early access periods

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  • I've got 110-130 dollars that says people will buy it anyway and the publisher will make a fortune.

  • How ‘The Conners’ Went From Nearly DOA to a Milestone 100th Episode — and What’s Next: ‘There’s So Much More to Do’

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  • Ambien, not even once.