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IronKrill

@ IronKrill @lemmy.ca

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  • 120 is definitely smoother, but I've found you can't really feel it until your minimums are at your target. So if your minimum frametime is 30-60fps on a 120fps monitor, it'll feel pretty crap compared to a solid 60 (or 75).

  • there's no escape! brew another cup!

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  • No no, ffmpeg is completely different! It refers to two women pegging a man.

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    NixOS and/or TrueNAS - What are your experiences?

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  • I have been using TrueNAS Scale for a while but have not used base Linux for my NAS. My opinion is if you're looking for a quick initial setup or are like me and didn't want to install ZFS yourself, TrueNAS is rather appealing, but otherwise it doesn't offer much. It has ZFS pre-installed, gives you a webUI to monitor basic things about your machine, and has fairly easy ways to setup data protection with snapshots and backups with rsync or zfs replication. In the more recent versions it even has Docker apps built-in so you can host some basic things. The downside of TrueNAS is that despite being Linux under the hood, it's a lot more locked down so doing advanced measures is more of a pain and much of their "simpler" UI-based stuff is exceedingly basic, half-featured, and lacks documentation.

    The way I use TrueNAS right now is to treat the main OS as mainly untouchable. I don't try to break out of the limits placed upon it. I instead use a "Jailmaker" machine (defunct wrapper script for systemd-nspawn) for all my Docker needs. This way the main system remains more stable. If I have to re-install, then it's a simple config import and my NAS is back to how it was.

    I would use the built-in VM tools or the built-in Docker tools for this, but A. they weren't implemented or weren't working when I set this up, and B. I found their setup rather... annoying. For instance, I tried to set up some apps with their previous app system and it required configuration before working and yet nowhere did anyone explain how to configure it so I was wokring blind. No one makes guides for setting up an app in the TrueNAS UI, so the extra layer of obfuscation was just a hinderance to me. Compare that to setting it up directly in Docker, there are a million guides and great documentation for everything I get stuck on. Thus, despite being the "harder" way to set it up, it was easier due to the existence of information about it.

    So, looking at it objectively, what parts of TrueNAS do I even use compared to base Linux? Not much. I use the WebUI to accomplish basic tasks such as creating or modifying datasets and permissions, snapshots, SMB shares, etcetera. All the basic things are there and I use the UI for them. But ever since that initial setup I spend most of my time in the CLI adjusting my scripts and Docker config files, creating directories inside the datasets, fine-tuning permissions... I could definitely have gone for a base Linux install as long as I knew what to install for ZFS support, some manner of WebUI, and so on. TrueNAS just did all that initial setup for me, and having a more locked-down OS forced me to use safer methods of installing programs via containers and keeping my install a lot more portable which I plan to continue no matter what OS I use.

    This was probably not helpful, but that's been my experience of TrueNAS for what it's worth. Whatever you do, just remember: RAID is not a backup. It is protection against drive faults, but an error in the RAID system itself or the RAID pool's data requires a separate copy of the data stored elsewhere to restore.

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  • She's actually fairly progressive (socially, at least), but on some topics like health she gets kinda nutty... still have not quite beaten the anti-vax out of her although I am happy to say she's not as bad as she used to be. And she did get vaxxed during Covid after our entire family all got it and pushed her on it.

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  • Urban. My siblings were hospital births, but my mom always has been a proponent of more 'natural' solutions so I think she wanted to try the less clinical way. She had a midwife there for the birth.

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  • About 15 metres. I was a home birth and am currently staying with my parents.

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  • Good find, that method is what I used too when I was still split tunneling my regular PC apps. Since then I have migrated to a docker setup using Qbittorrent's webUI and I just run it's network through a Gluetun container. Haven't thought about it in ages.

  • Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate

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  • they were selling wd red (pro?) drives with smr tech

    Didn't they used to have only one "Red" designation? Or maybe I'm hallucinating. I thought "Red Pro" was introduced after that curfuffel to distinguish the SMR from the CMR.

  • Are there any wrap around sunglasses that don't make me look like a conservative dad?

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  • Driving with flat sunglasses sucks due to the sun getting around all the gaps.

  • Samsung is building a Dedicated Production Line to produce displays for Apple’s First Foldable iPhone

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  • A folding display feels so... anti-Apple. The crease in the middle of the screen and reduced durability go against their general perfection and the user choice of a different form factor is not something they usually do. Plus, half the reason I would buy a Samsung Fold is so that I can run two apps at once side by side and more space for floating apps, but Apple has never had such power-user features. I will be very surprised if they actually release one.

  • Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic Portal 2 as Steam’s top-rated game

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  • It's been hilarious watching Overwatch take notes from Paladins, the "Overwatch clone", more and more lately. 5v5, hero builds, more of a brawly playstyle... OW2 at times feels like a blend between OW1 and Paladins.

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  • enjoy never using a computer again i guess?

  • The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead'

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  • PewDiePie moved to Japan and while I have no idea what he's uploaded (or not uploaded) I get the sense he's basically retired. He's doing surfing, rock climbing, art, I don't know that he cares enough anymore to support it.

  • You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning

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  • Depends who you bank with. Some desktop websites suck on mobile and some don't even allow certain actions on desktop. For some ungodly reason Wealthsimple requires me to do almost everything via app. It's one of the reasons I barely utilise their services.

  • What type of piracy do you think will become harder to do over time?

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  • Fair point. Although the problem with those sketchier sites is they usually slap watermarks all over the images and scrape the first release of a chapter regardless of the translation group, which results in very spotty quality. There are absolutely series where certain translation groups or anonymous uploaders snipe it with terrible quality and it's not worth reading until the better group translates it, but the scraper websites don't update their chapters.

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  • If I go 6 hours after a shower without deodorant, my armpits usually have started smelling. It ain't just big soap, it's genetics or something.

  • Anybody else block Lemmit.Online spambot?

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  • About two years ago, yeah. I can just visit Reddit for the one or two subreddits left that I want to see. Viewing them with worse formatting and missing comments is pointless for me.

  • What type of piracy do you think will become harder to do over time?

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  • Not sure why you're being downvoted for expressing an opinion... an opinion based on current trends, at that. Mangadex just had a large chunk of work wiped out and many translations are only on Mangadex or translator websites with no torrent. This is a fact. Not hard to be worried that further takedowns will affect access to niche manga.