Shdwdrgn

@Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz

A person with way too many hobbies, but I still continue to learn new things.

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Shdwdrgn,

Y2K would like to have a word…

Shdwdrgn,

It’s nice to see, but $40k is still a rich-man’s market. I’ve never paid more that $12k for a vehicle, and that was a fully-loaded SUV. No I do not buy anything new, and until there are enough used EVs to reach the $6000 market you still won’t see a significant number of them replacing older vehicles. I also tend to have high standards – my first car (a 1974 Pontiac) was driven for 24 years and over 300k miles. That was replaced by the mentioned SUV which I’ve now driven for 15 years and have no real problems with (I do need to replace the upholstery on the front seats soon). How do EV’s rate for reliability so far?

Shdwdrgn,

Wow $10k for brand new is really amazing… Yeah they’re definitely bending us over here in the US.

Shdwdrgn,

Well you can vote for Republicans, who continue to pass bills that block renewables and promote a reliance on fossil fuels, or you can vote for Democrats who at least try to pass bills to support our chance at a future. Yeah there are some who have crossed the aisle, but these are the policies of the vast majority of each party.

Shdwdrgn,

Show me the $10k EVs that were available in the US before that bill went through.

Shdwdrgn,

Certainly seems like a hardware issue, but there’s no easy answer to this one. It could be your power supply, motherboard, CPU, memory, even the video card. The power-button issue makes me lean towards power supply or motherboard though (assuming you’ve verified the power button works after a fresh boot).

If you have other parts on hand (even from another running system) you could swap components until you identify the culprit. If you find it’s your power supply, make sure you replace it with a decent quality one, NOT one of those $25 units you find everywhere, or you’ll have even more problems followed by a rapid failure in another year.

Shdwdrgn,

Then it could still be the power supply or motherboard. It takes a lot to override the hardware power switch and the power supply itself is usually one of the biggest culprits to random lockups. Beyond that I can’t offer much, I don’t know of any way to test the components unless you could afford thousands of dollars for specialized equipment. I’ve always had multiple machines available to swap parts so I don’t have a different strategy for troubleshooting.

Shdwdrgn,

Something like a hard drive could generate recognizable errors in the logs, but once you get out into the motherboard or power supply, there’s simply not enough monitoring available to detect problems. You might be able to record the voltage output from the power supply rails, depending on your hardware, but that still might not tell you anything.

Shdwdrgn,

If there’s a stick of butter on the table, an ear of corn will get rolled right across the top. How’s that for efficiency? 😆

Shdwdrgn,

Well yeah, but oddly some people are offended by it. Like, do you not know how to eat sweet corn?

Shdwdrgn,

Interesting, I’ve never seen something like that!

Shdwdrgn,

Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a chance of getting in another conviction from a completely separate trial before November? I think that would be the nail in the coffin for all those who are still on the fence and would likely be a significant swing in how the current polls are going. Then again I’m still wondering how anyone who isn’t at least a multimillionaire would even consider voting for a guy who keeps saying that poor people are too stupid to be anything except poor.

Shdwdrgn,

One of the articles I read yesterday stated that in the state of New York, this type of conviction has about a 1 in 10 chance of including a prison sentence (up to four years). The judge determines the sentence, and may also weigh in with whether a monetary sentence would be meaningful to the defendant, but also things like remorse (which Trump has shown none) and the number of convictions (which are a lot).

Even if we get lucky enough to see Trump sent to jail, he can still get out on bond while appealing the case, so it could be a year or more before Trump would ever have to spend a night behind bars.

Shdwdrgn,

Didn’t he reject the Secret Service detail after losing the last election? Or were you referring to if he gets elected again?

Shdwdrgn,

Interesting, I wonder where I got that from? Ah well, thanks for the update.

Shdwdrgn,

Seriously… If this were actual “bombshell” news it wouldn’t be on a youtube channel.

Shdwdrgn,

Naw, I’ll take an article any day over a video. If you have any links for something I can read, I’ll be happy to take a look.

Shdwdrgn,

Thanks for those! Read through all of them, it’s definitely a big stink. Still not seeing how this is a “bombshell” report since it’s been investigated since 2021, I guess the hyperbole in the YT title is part of what turned me off from believing them (kinda like all those “one trick your doctor doesn’t want you to know”, or the endless “free energy” BS), but it’s nice to see this one was based on some factual information.

Do you have a more complicated shell history scheme than the distro default?

I’ve used distrobox more and more and am at the point where I need to start saving and integrating history differently. Or like, when I’m installing and building something complicated, I need to start saving that specific session’s history. I am curious what others might be doing and looking for simple advice and ideas.

Shdwdrgn,

I think this is the only change I’ve made that affects my history… It simply ignores multiple copies of a command when you repeat it multiple times, making it easier to up-arrow through the unique things I’ve executed.

export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups

Shdwdrgn,

I only include it because pretty much every guide on zfs setups recommends disabling it these days. I don’t believe it’s anything I’ve every had to use despite several drive crashes over the years.

Shdwdrgn,

Heh sorry about that. There’s also a zfs conversation going on where I had suggested disabling the ‘dedup’ option. I’ve never heard of dedupe being used in the context of the shell history, so yeah, I got confused.

Shdwdrgn,

I’ve never used TrueNAS, but my experience with ZFS is that it could care less what order the drives are detected by the operating system. You could always shut down the machine, swap two drives around, boot back up, and see if the pool comes back online. If it fails, shut it back down and put the drives in their original locations.

If you are moving your data to new (larger) drives, before anything else you should take the opportunity to play with the new drives and find the ZFS settings that work well. I think recordsize is autodetected these days, but maybe for your use things like dedup, atime, and relatime can be turned off, and do you need xattr? If you’re using 4096 block sizes did you partition the drives starting at sector 2048? Did you turn off compression if you don’t need it? Also consider your hardware, like if you have multiple connection ports, can you get a speed increase by spreading out the drives so you don’t saturate any particular channel?

Newer hardware by itself can make a huge difference too. My last upgrade took me from PCIe x4 to x16 slots, allowing me to upgrade to SAS3 cards, and overall went from around 70MB/s to 460MB/s transfer speeds with enough hardware to manage up to 40 drives. Turns out the new configuration also uses much less power, so a big win all around.

Shdwdrgn,

Nothing wrong with used servers, that’s the only thing I’ve ever run. Ebay has provided a ton of equipment to me.

Shdwdrgn,

Damn, it was still running? Not that I still remember my username or password, but damn…

Shdwdrgn,

“We managed to not kill the first subject, but we’re hopeful to succeed in the future”…

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