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Staggered spinup is still a feature on virtually all modern hardware/RAID disk controllers.

Why not stay with Ubuntu, and upgrade to 22.04 LTS? Is the current setup giving you trouble?

Any kind of (standard) Xeon HW setup should be well supported by either OS.

Can't help but be mildly amused by the article and many of the comments. Here in Germany the standard "Kündigungsfrist" is often three months to the end of the current month at many tech (and other) places.

For example, if I wanted to quit my current job (which I'm currently contemplating), I'd have to make sure to do it in april, otherwise I'll be stuck for another month.

It does go both ways, a company can't just fire you without reasonable cause, such as gross misconduct. But in most cases people stop trying after handing in their resignation - which I can't blame them for - and as a manager I'd like to release them earlier.

His blog is quite the rabbit hole, with blog post about the creation of de_dust and de_dust2. Highly recommended.

That's a very big AND.

HARD agree. Had a lot of fun going against 12 bots with 2-3 (human) friends, for hours.

Similar experience for me. Four 2TB 980pro in RAID-Z2. Since introducing the drives in August 2021 I've had to replace them five times. I think none of the original SSDs are left. Only between 5 - 25TB written on average. Usually individual uncorrectable errors caught by ZFS, but one drive just straight up died. I keep a cold spare these days. On the bright side, if the cycle continues, I'll never run out of warranty from Samsung or the vendor.

There is a show called Alone [1] in which 10 participants compete for 500.000 dollars by trying to survive the northern canadian arctic winter as long as possible, up to three or four months. Virtually all footage is filmed by the participants themselves. It's quite engrossing.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4803766/

Reminds me of the final level of Serious Sam: The 2nd Encounter. Love that game.

I'd tend to agree, but then again, there's so many people who are just bad at their job. Attention to detail is a skill which many do not care to sharpen.

Yes! The entire new Matrix movie looks like that as well. Granted, those scenes were taking place inside the Matrix, but that choice did not really work for me. Seems as if the director wanted to move as far away as possible from the old movies, in terms of what the simulation looks like.

On the other hand, especially when offering an online service, cert monitoring and/or robust automation are essential. Blaming browser behaviour is missing the point in my opinion.

Holy crap that resonates 100%. And soon I'm supposed to step into a more management style role there. Have not signed the new contract yet, though.

Excellent film. Very memorable.

I started carrying it a few weeks ago. Ideally I don't have to use it, but if I do, the Nextcloud client will just take care of syncing my data after going online. Another "apt upgrade" and it's ready to go. I could even start from another Linux USB system and copy the entire SD card disk via dd to a (potentially) new laptop.

* Selfhosted Nextcloud on dedicated Hetzner server, connected to computers and phone.

* Daily backup of Nextcloud to another Hetzner server about 2500km away, and to another server at home.

* All data encrypted at rest.

* All encryption keys and creds in keepass file.

* Also, encrypted 400G MicroSD card with a full Linux installation and most of my data (up to a point) in my wallet. Ready to go if I'm travelling and Laptop gets stolen or breaks.

I'm selfhosting a wallabag server, which lets me access my bookmarks on all my devices, without the need for another 3rd party service. Probably not what you're looking for, but I started looking into private bookmark sharing and this is what I ended up with. It's a pretty ok solution.

Technically even large shell scripts can be expressed / executed as one liners :)

Interesting! Have the sale alerts ever netted you something of interest? I imagine one could have a decent side business flipping goods.

That's why you run two pihole instances on independent hardware :)

Not me, but in a previous job the interim office manager used a physical calculator to add up columns from an excel sheet she was working on with her computer. I gave her a quick intro into SUM & co. Unsurprisingly, those tasks took a lot less time after that!

I just use "grep -R", sometimes with "-i" as well. Works for me 99% of the time.

Thunderbird on Linux, K-9 Mail on Android.

My $WORKPLACE is using Outlook, so I use Thunderbird for Mail there too and always have a browser tab open with the OWA calendar [1]. Not the most elegant solution, but it's working fine for me.

[1] Tried several addons for Thunderbird with Outlook integration, decided I don't like any of them.

I've successfully hosted my own private mail server [1] on a Hetzner system for the last 6-7 years. It's a steep learning curve, and a rather large time sink in the beginning to set everything up, but it's been running smoothly ever since.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30428882

Just as note, but the Japanese show mentioned in the article ("Old Enough") is absolutely delightful. Episodes are usually between 10-20 minutes (the longest being the one with the fish / apple disaster). AFAIK there are currently 20 subtitled episodes available on netflix.

Yes, it's bad. The only thing the site needs to work is a CDN [1]. It's like web cancer.

I count no less than SEVENTEEN OTHER external sites trying to inject resources. Must be a new high score.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/NPaEFSr.png

> I really don’t care for Chrome users and their inability to do pure TLSv1.3.

You "don't really care" for a majority of users, based on what? TLS 1.2 is perfectly fine to use with strong ciphers. I salute your static website which is free of JS/cookies/bloat/external stuff (similar to my own blog), but at the same time you're actively sabotaging accessibility.

Pihole [1] is mostly written in bash, which reads rather well, as far as I am concerned.

[1] https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole

I love teardown guides like this. It seems nothing was damaged here. My main question, was the person able to reassemble everything in again?

> Any tips on IPs where people are seeing excellent deliverability? I'd like to avoid routing my outbound email through one of the email providers (Mailgun, SES, etc) if I can.

I've moved my domain / mailserver a few times between Hetzner IPs when migrating to new servers. Went smoothly, but I make sure to check the new IP with common greylists before moving my mail setup. Other than that, make sure your DNS setup is clean and use Hetzner :) But I'm sure you have your own strategies.