Its about balancing your priorities for availability with recouverability. A business loses a lot more money than I do over a couple days downtime.
Mirrored drives are not backup drives, and vice versa. Though ZFS can definitely start to blur the distinction with automated snapshots and especially offsite mirrors.
All part of the goal of turning personal computing into cable TV by making everything web app SASS.
America had to build the (atom) bomb to “beat the Russians to it”. Then the h-bomb, then the ICBM. Every time it was “we, the good guys need this first to save the world”.
Except, even ignoring the “good guys” part, its always easier to copy and steal than build something new from scratch. In every case, America just ended up handing the tech to Russia. You dont slow down tech by inventing it first.
Ram is expensive… so all my 24x7 things are containers (docker compose on Alpine Linux) or FreeBSD jails.
Ubuntu used to be the obvious choice for reviving old systems that couldn’t run Windows
This is a clear case of AI slop not understanding the context. Lots of ink was spilled over the years suggesting people revive old computers with Ubuntu - EXCEPT, they were targeting Windows users. Ubuntu was lightweight compared to Windows, not other linux distros. This hasnt changed.
Easy install with drivers included and a rich guy willing to mail you installer CDs in a nice jacket for free. Every computer club in any school had a stack of them to give out.
Is it kind of weird to respond to every thread with this same claim? A CD iso with full gnome desktop and openoffice wasnt minimal at the time.
In the early 2000s, that wasnt particularily lightweight. I believe it came with openoffice and the full gnome desktop. That was not really minimal in any way.
Half of them probably already think data centres are a democrat scheme.
Its pretty simple.
Hydrocarbons + oxygen + ignition releases energy, H20, and CO2.
Energy + CO2 + H20 can synthesize hydrocarbons.
There is plenty of interesting research how to do the latter - but it doesnt change the fact it just reverses a process we currently do by the tanker ship full. Why would anyone do that at scale?
It cant have a large scale application until we basically have free energy from some other source - and at that point, synthetic fuel is probably still a terrible way to store and use energy for pretty much everything except jet airplanes.
I am confused. Do you think cryptocurrencies are people? or do you think excluding certain kinds of projects from your community is somehow fascism?
Nobody is excluded from using codeberg based on their identity alone. Every community and internet platform has rules of what you can bring to it and what you are able to do there.
Unlike github, being excluded from codeberg hosting doesn’t really cost you anything because they don’t intend to be a walled garden.
A password manager is literally the poster child for “I would rather it lack features, but be built carefully by an expert.”
Back to TUIs I go.