hperrin

@hperrin@lemmy.world

I’m Hunter Perrin. I’m a software engineer.

I wrote an email service: port87.com

I write free software: github.com/sciactive

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hperrin,

I’m really hoping that Valve releases a new headset by the time my Quest inevitably becomes unusable.

RAID setup for Ubuntu media server

I recently acquired two used blade servers and a short rack to put them in. I’m planning to use one or the other as the replacement for a media server that died on me a bit ago. The old media server was just a little refurb dell workstation, with a single SSD in it, but the servers have 6 and 8 bays, respectively....

hperrin,

mdadm is the tool you can use to create and manage software RAIDs on Linux. You can also manage them with Cockpit.

If you do go with mdadm, my advice is create a partition on each drive that is slightly smaller than the drive itself, and use that as the device in mdadm. That way if you need to replace a drive, and the new one is a few MBs/GBs smaller, you’ll still be able to use it.

hperrin,

Tylenol can cause very serious harm, and they’ve yet to ban it.

hperrin,

I’ve never.

Regretted it, I mean.

hperrin,

Pownkie Pow

hperrin,

This is what they used to do to kids with ADHD before Ritalin.

hperrin,

Born at least once

Extreme fetishists: Finally, some representation.

hperrin,

And let me guess, the seditionist’s husband is not going to recuse himself.

hperrin,

Yeah, but republicans don’t care if you’re a rapist. They definitely care if you’re poor.

hperrin,

God damn. That’s incredible.

hperrin,

You wouldn’t LUKS a floppy?

hperrin,

It would be good if you wanted to have a system that two people need to be present to unlock. Like those nuke launch locks that need two keys.

hperrin,

Yeah, you’re right. That’s better.

hperrin,

When Trump gets really desperate he usually commits a bunch of crimes. I wonder what’s going to happen in the next week, and what we’ll hear about a couple months from now, and how the trial will go in 2032.

hperrin,

It’s? Do you mean their?

hperrin,

I don’t think Elon has that much liquid. He’d have to sell off a lot of shares of one of his companies, and that would probably disaffect the stock. I wouldn’t put it past him to do that though.

hperrin,

Ha! I didn’t think of that.

hperrin,

Yep. It’s definitely not just the “radical left” that says that kind of dehumanizing rhetoric is terrible. It’s all decent people. Trump is a nazi.

hperrin,

“I haven’t decided yet, whether I’m pro or anti nazi.”

hperrin,

Pink, and it sucks that everything pink is more expensive. Specifically, I like pastel pinks, like baby pink.

hperrin,

Your favorite color is one you can’t even see? That’s pretty badass, ngl.

hperrin,

Bring your own router. Don’t plug things directly into the ethernet jacks in hotel rooms. Plug your router into there and connect to it instead. If you can then VPN into your home network, even better.

hperrin,

Boo!

hperrin,

Epson EcoTank. They’re expensive printers, but the ink is so cheap they make up for it. I absolutely love mine and recommend it to anyone looking for a printer.

hperrin,

I just run the automated thing like 4 or 5 times until it prints well again. It always works eventually.

hperrin, (edited )

That’s an ink absorber, and all inkjet printers have them. It’s not “designed to fail”, it’s a physical limitation of the universe. You can’t just keep dumping ink into a sponge forever. Eventually it will become saturated and you can either clean it or replace it.

I’ve had my printer for about four years and haven’t needed to replace one yet. They only cost about $10 when you do need to replace it. If they cost several hundred dollars, I would see your point, but the savings in ink more than makes up for having to replace a sponge every decade or so.

Edit: I missed that you said only the manufacturer can replace it. That’s not true. It’s user replaceable with a Phillips head screwdriver.

Edit 2: Added links.

hperrin,

It is? It’s behind a panel on the back of the printer. Just take the single Phillips head screw off.

hperrin,

It’s not designed to fail. It’s designed to be user serviceable. You can buy a replacement and replace it yourself. It literally only requires a Phillips head screwdriver to take out the one screw on the back panel. If that is designed to fail, then a car needing an oil change is “designed to fail”.

hperrin,

epson.com/Accessories/…/T04D100

Or

epson.com/Accessories/…/T04D000

hperrin,

I’ve had mine for about four years. I’ve had clogged print heads once, and I ran the auto cleaning five times, then it worked. I’ll give you that it was a pain, but the purge feature works. You’ve just gotta do it multiple times if it’s a really bad clog.

hperrin,

Ok, at this point I feel like you’re just joking. If not, you’re legitimately mad.

hperrin,

Tell us how you really feel.

hperrin,

If you can’t sleep in them, they’re probably ill fitting or bad quality. A good pair of jeans that fit well are really comfortable.

hperrin,

Goodbye, money.

hperrin,

What a cool project.

hperrin,

100Mbps is still very slow. Much better than 25Mbps, but still slow.

hperrin, (edited )

This isn’t really true. An HD movie on Netflix/Hulu/Prime/etc is multi GB. It just doesn’t need to download fast, because anything faster than the bitrate of the movie won’t be perceptible.

But there are also games on platforms like Steam, Epic, PlayStation, etc. These are often very large.

hperrin,

Because downloading GTA V takes 2 1/2 hours at 100Mbps, and 14 minutes at 1Gbps.

hperrin,

Tell that to everyone who has played a Rockstar game.

hperrin, (edited )

So build the capability and people will use it when they need it. My point still stands that 100Mbps is slow, even if most people are fine with it day to day.

Also, for a family of four, that would mean only 2 of them would be able to watch a 40Mbps HD stream at once. I get that that is relatively rare for 3 people in a family to want to stream at that speed at the same time, but I wouldn’t call something fast if it can’t support even that.

(YouTube recommends a bitrate of 68Mbps for 4K 60fps content and 45Mbps for 4K 30fps. Higher when using HDR.)

hperrin,

That’s enough to watch exactly one 1080p 30fps stream on YouTube and literally nothing else.

hperrin,

Where are you? I’ve lived in California my whole life and have had faster speeds than that since 1998.

hperrin,

Yeah, I regularly hit about 80MBps (640Mbps) from Steam. I’m pretty close to their San Diego servers, so I get the good pipes. If I was closer, I’d probably be able to hit gigabit speeds.

hperrin,

I remember thinking, “How am I ever going to fill this 100MB hard drive? That’s so much space!” That was some time around 1997, I think.

hperrin,

Who’s going to post online about when nothing eventful happened and they have no issues?

hperrin,

Having a ./ in front of your file names in a tar won’t hurt anything, it’s just unnecessary.

hperrin, (edited )

I believe you’d only overwrite ownership/permission of ./ if that was included in your tar.

Also, ./ is a relative path. Absolute paths start with /.

The source you linked about tarbombs is talking about a tar that doesn’t use a subdirectory, not one that uses ./ prefixes.

hperrin,

I thought they said it was an integral part of the operating system and couldn’t be removed. Are you telling me that Microsoft lied?

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