vwbusguy

vwbusguy, 6 days ago

@sjvn I still have mine! It was out first family computer and is sitting on the desk next to my as I type. I also have "The Case for the Osbourne", which is a soft carrying case with a strap that makes it much easier to transport. I've taken it to work before like that.

vwbusguy, 6 days ago

@sjvn Very cool! And we're in the CP/M club together!

vwbusguy, 6 days ago

@richlv @sjvn I have pics on my Pixelfed.

https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/426438982768129979

https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/428686033908032352

vwbusguy, 6 days ago

And I do like it more than my #Pixel 8. It has the things I like about the Pixel, but offers polish in the areas where I don't. Like, you can have the same navigation button order every other Android phone but Pixel has. You can hold down the switcher button for a screenshot, etc.

vwbusguy, 6 days ago

@SomeGadgetGuy Crazy to think that all of those features used to be standard. Ever since the Samsung Galaxy 7, it's been a consistent story of paying more for less, with Apple and Samsung leading the race to the bottom.

vwbusguy, 6 days ago

@SomeGadgetGuy Once they were well established as market leaders for their respective slices, they shifted from wow-ing with innovation to finding new ways to squeeze blood from a turnip and figuring out how to market-spin it after the fact.

Don't forget that phones used to have FM radio and universal TV remote control capabilities, too.

vwbusguy, 7 days ago

@itsfoss I was migrating a server and went to change the docroot owner from apache to nginx. I meant to run:

chown -R nginx:nginx ./

What I actually ran was:

chown -R nginx:nginx /

This broke ssh and sudo. I was eventually able to recover it by getting into a recovery and reinstalling every rpm and manually fixing /etc leftovers from there. It was an early cloud server, so I didn't have physical access. This was back when #Rackspace support was worth the premium you paid for it.

vwbusguy, 7 days ago

@UniversalBlue @jorge @cgwalters This is awesome!

vwbusguy, 8 days ago

I'm of the general opinion that the only RAID you should generally consider are 0 (YOLO mode), 1, and 10.

RAID5 and 6 are a crackhead playing the shell game with your storage. They use a bunch more IO and are more likely to incur simultaneous drive failures.

It's not guaranteed that RAID10 will survive 2 concurrent failures, but it is less likely for that scenario to happen to begin with.

No matter what you do, make regular backups. RAID is not a backup.

vwbusguy, 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

@gsuberland @kemotep RAID6 adds even more IO to disk writes than RAID5, meaning a significant performance penalty and added stress. Like, if you're mostly reading static files and have good backups, sure, knock yourself out, but not ideal for production storage with regular write transactions, and especially relational databases.

vwbusguy, 8 days ago

@monospace The microphone picked it up over a conference call.

vwbusguy, 8 days ago

@aburka I prefer tactile switches because I enjoy them more and generally type faster and more confidently with them vs linear quiet ones. Part of it I'm sure is an age thing, since I learned on old mechanical keyboards and used manual typewriters and there's a sort of auditory cued rhythm that comes with it, least you jam up the typewriter, that has never left me.

vwbusguy, 8 days ago

@aburka This is pretty much me

https://youtu.be/cYf3_ynfXa4

vwbusguy, 8 days ago

@bcon At home, I have a Das Keyboard 6 Professional with blue switches and because the keys are more deeply set in a bigger chassis, the noise is better contained than the Logitech blue switch one I have in the office.

vwbusguy, 8 days ago

@sesivany I have a MapBox API integration in my Nextcloud with Nextcloud Maps and it works pretty well. There is an open street map integration, IIRC, but it was less straightforward to setup last time I tried.