My current setup is an Odroid H3+ with 2x8TB hard drives configured in raid 1 via mdadm. It is running Ubuntu server and I put in 16GB of RAM. It also has a 1TB SSD on it for system storage....
You want to pool 2 drives managed by software RAID with 4 other drives in an external enclosure managed by hardware RAID, connected via USB?
Yes, this is a terrible idea, as you already suspect. If you even get it to work, it will be unstable and the USB bus will be a nasty bottleneck for data transfer.
This would be a significantly more stable and reliable setup, and offers room for future expansion. In addition, if data hoarding is the goal, you would be able to use an OS like TrueNAS which would give you better control over your drive pool(s).
So… what happens when the USB cable gets bumped mid-write, and the drives in the external enclosure suddenly go offline? Because the cable will get bumped at some point, probably at the worst possible time.
Genuine question, I don’t have experience with MergerFS. OP’s planned setup seems fault-prone to me, rather than fault-resistant.
I doubt anything practical can be done to help with her current situation, but I think the community should be more aware of her work and the pressure she’s under from the Chinese government.
I love Naomi wu / sexy cyborg. I’ve been watching her for years and she helped encourage me to setup my own 3d printer. It hurts to see someone who’s been so inspirational to me be silenced like this. I hope she can stay safe and have a productive makerspace still
I doubt anything practical can be done to help with her current situation, but I think the community should be more aware of her work and the pressure she’s under from the Chinese government.
I’ve been following Naomi for several years, and I’m convinced that she’s the kind of functional genius that the world needs more of. I really don’t understand why she hasn’t had better reception and support from the US maker community and tech press. I think the way she’s been treated is a combination of envy, sexism and racism/jingoism.
I think the 3D printing community should be more aware of her situation, so I’ve cross-posted this to !3dprinting and !3DPrinting
Bullshit, he didn’t appear in court voluntarily. He was investigated and arrested. McGonigal is sorry he got caught and that’s all.
concealing hundreds of thousands of dollars he received from a former employee of an Albanian intelligence agency while he was a top official at the bureau.
He was paid by a foreign agent while he was still in his position at the FBI. What was he paid for? I’m way more interested in this part - the charge is apparently money laundering but it sounds like bribery.
Food Innovation Australia’s national food waste strategy argues reducing household food waste will require consumer behaviour change coupled with technical developments in packaging, and recommends improved portioning and better food date labelling....
OK, so biodegradation is basically dependent on microbes penetrating a material and digesting at least part of its chemical structure causing it to break down into simpler molecules. There are lots of hungry microbes in our world, so this process starts happening to basically any material they can get inside of. It will happen to you as soon as your immune system is no longer able to keep the hungry microbes away.
The problem is with the getting inside - most microbes live and travel in water. If a material is water-resistant it is almost impossible for it to biodegrade. This is one of the reasons plastic waste is such a problem - most waste plastic is water-impermeable, and so few if any microbes can digest it. This property is also what makes it useful - it can be handled, contain liquids, and be left outdoors for extended periods of time without failure. The same characteristic that makes plastic useful also makes it very difficult to get rid of (a lot of polymers never denature through normal exposure).
Food packaging will necessarily need to be water resistant. Even if you’re packaging a dry food, the point is to keep it dry (and therefore keep water out). So, even if you start with a naturally water-permeable biodegradable polymer, if you mess with its structure to make it water resistant (useful for food packaging) then it will no longer be biodegradable and thus won’t solve the waste problem.
Hey guys. I’m new to Linux and I’m running Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon. Yesterday I have f*cked up. I was testing things in users and geve myself standart priveledges insted of Admin ones I had from beggining and then restarted PC. I then tried log back into users tab and change myself back to Admin but even tho the password is...
I know this has probably been asked before but I am currently using Arch and wondering if my choice is the best for gaming. What are the thoughts from the community? I have an AMD Ryzen 7 processor with 64 gigs of RAM and a decent AMD GPU. Gaming seems to be okay on Arch but I am wondering if I’ve overlooked something better....
Well, hence “if practical”. Obviously, a wind turbine surrounded by existing multi-story buildings isn’t going to be useful anyway - so this wouldn’t be a good idea for inner city parking lots. But not every parking lot is in a city like that, so it really depends on the specific location. If the building near the parking lot is also defunct (like a lot of shopping malls in the US) then maybe tearing all of it down and putting turbines in the space would make sense.
For long-term society support we should be adding more power generation where we can, especially low-carbon options. Our need for energy isn’t going down and probably never will. Fortunately, solar and wind have both reached the point where they are the lowest cost/MWh option for power generation (even without government subsidies) so they are often the best choice, and probably more people would be comfortable living near a solar or wind farm than a fission plant.
Even if you think what you would say is obvious, please add. This is genuinely something I think makes sense regarding local bus routes given the longevity of light rail and how infrequently routes change, but I also suffer from confirmation bias, so I’m hoping for reasons this would be a terrible idea but obviously would...
This is OK because they provide a useful public service and should be funded by tax dollars. Light rail should not be expected to turn a profit. It should be expected to benefit the community it serves, which it generally does.
Heh, well, if the petroleum industry and the development of automobiles ends up destroying the environment, then the cost-benefit analysis would seem to be moot.
Both the roads and mass transit are services, just like the post office and the military. They’re costs of having civilization, not some kind of business enterprise the government is undertaking.
Kind of depends on how you look at it… If you consider that the government’s ultimate goal is to grow the economy so that it can collect more tax revenue, then the entire country is the government’s enterprise. Improving the enterprise’s infrastructure would seem like an obviously beneficial expenditure.
It’s more abstract, but the real question is whether spending more tax money on mass transit would benefit society more than if the money were spent on something else.
Has anyone looked at a city bus recently and noticed that it had cameras all over it? They’re probably mainly to improve visibility for the driver, but a lot of modern buses are also networked… but even if they’re not actively streaming their video externally, there’s plenty of room to stick a rack of hard drives somewhere on the bus. I suspect city buses are also working as mobile surveillance platforms.
You’ve been pretty happy with status quo have you?
I’ve been pretty happy with this return-to-status-quo term as compared to the previous non-status-quo term
Context matters. If you take my words out of context, then you aren’t actually addressing what I said, you’re addressing a straw man. Or did you intend to imply that you were happier with the previous president?
And this is putting words in my mouth:
Sounds like being apathetic to the problems is working out for you specifically.
But never mind your flawed approach to debate, let’s actually take a look at what’s been done during Biden’s time in office:
The bill’s economic-relief provisions are overwhelmingly geared toward low-income and middle-class Americans, who will benefit from (among other provisions) the direct payments, the bill’s expansion of low-income tax credits, child-care subsidies, expanded health-insurance access, extension of expanded unemployment benefits, food stamps, and rental assistance programs.
"Historians, economists and engineers interviewed by The Associated Press welcomed Biden’s efforts. But they stressed that $1 trillion was not nearly enough to overcome the government’s failure for decades to maintain and upgrade the country’s infrastructure."
Since the May 2020 onshoring of TSMC used by Under Secretary of State Keith J. Krach as a catalyst for the bill and to secure the U.S. semiconductor supply chain, a significant number of companies and a list of ecosystem suppliers have committed or made announcements for investments and jobs in the US.
“Nine months ago, President Joe Biden signed a sweeping bipartisan gun law, the most significant legislative response to gun violence in decades.[…]Several months in, the law has had some success: Stepped-up FBI background checks have blocked gun sales for 119 buyers under the age of 21, prosecutions have increased for unlicensed gun sellers and new gun trafficking penalties have been charged in at least 30 cases around the country. Millions of new dollars have flowed into mental health services for children and schools.” [reference]
Expanding my storage - looking for advice
My current setup is an Odroid H3+ with 2x8TB hard drives configured in raid 1 via mdadm. It is running Ubuntu server and I put in 16GB of RAM. It also has a 1TB SSD on it for system storage....
Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes (www.hackingbutlegal.com)
cross-posted from: merv.news/post/130483...
3D printer nightmare fuel: Bambu X1C and P1P started printing while owners were asleep (www.theverge.com)
Local-only octoprint is feeling better and better.
Wow, I'm going to be popu- (lemmy.ml)
Work of art (infosec.pub)
Former high-level FBI official pleads guilty in connection to scheme working for sanctioned Russian oligarch (edition.cnn.com)
Lemmy.zip | A Lemmy instance for everyone, with a focus towards tech, PCs, and gaming. (lemmy.zip)
How a tiny plant fibre can be turned into cling film and other packaging to lower food waste (www.abc.net.au)
Food Innovation Australia’s national food waste strategy argues reducing household food waste will require consumer behaviour change coupled with technical developments in packaging, and recommends improved portioning and better food date labelling....
I F*cked up and I need help.
Hey guys. I’m new to Linux and I’m running Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon. Yesterday I have f*cked up. I was testing things in users and geve myself standart priveledges insted of Admin ones I had from beggining and then restarted PC. I then tried log back into users tab and change myself back to Admin but even tho the password is...
Linux distro for gaming
I know this has probably been asked before but I am currently using Arch and wondering if my choice is the best for gaming. What are the thoughts from the community? I have an AMD Ryzen 7 processor with 64 gigs of RAM and a decent AMD GPU. Gaming seems to be okay on Arch but I am wondering if I’ve overlooked something better....
[meme] What would you replace parking lots with if it were up to you? (lemmy.world)
Actions to avoid irreversible consequences?
As the titled mentioned, is there anything that we should do to avoid undesirable life consequences?
Shouldn't we be switching buses with light railway? (lemmy.tf)
Even if you think what you would say is obvious, please add. This is genuinely something I think makes sense regarding local bus routes given the longevity of light rail and how infrequently routes change, but I also suffer from confirmation bias, so I’m hoping for reasons this would be a terrible idea but obviously would...
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Democrats worry their most loyal voters won’t turn out for Biden in 2024 (www.washingtonpost.com)
Summary:...