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I also don’t like System76 hardware, but they’re doing this software work that they’re hoping to recoup with hardware sales. If this becomes a good replacement for GNOME, for me it would be worth paying whatever they’d make from a laptop. But I ain’t buying their laptop because I don’t like it and I don’t need it. So I’m gonna give them the difference somehow. 😂

If this becomes a good replacement for GNOME I’d pay the profit margin of a System76 laptop for it.

Right so I guess the question of 3 is whether it means 3 backups or 3 copies. If we take it literally - 3 copies, then it does protect from user error only. If 3 backups, it protects against hardware failure too.

E: Seagate calls them copies and explicitly says the implementer can choose how the copies are distributed across the 2 media. The woodchipper scenario would be handled by the 2 media requirement.

Hm I wonder why snapshots wouldn’t satisfy 3. Copies on the same disk like /file, /backup1/file, /backup2/file should satisfy 3. Why wouldn’t snapshots be equivalent if 3 doesn’t guard against filesystem or hardware failure? Just thinking and curious to see opinion.

• Primary ZFS pool with automatic snapshots
  • Provides 3+ copies of the files via snapshots (3)
• Secondary ZFS pool at a different location replicates the primary
  • Provides more copies of the files (3)
  • Provides second media (2)
  • Is off-site (1)

Does this make sense?

The answer for doing this on your PC is Docker with one of the open source containers built for this. For example this.

If you want a dedicated machine, your Pi would do just fine but you’ll have to connect your storage where the downloads are to it. You should still use Docker for that since it’s the easiest setup and it would take care of important corner cases such as blocking seed when the VPN is down.

If Raid is backup, then Unraid is?

Try ZFS send if you have ZFS on the other side. It’s insane. No file IO, just snap and time for the network transfer of the delta.

Every hour. Could do it more frequently if needed.

It depends on how resource intensive the backup process is.

Consider an 800GB Immich instance.

Using Duplicity or rsync takes 1 hour per backup. 99% of the time is spent in traversing the directory structure and checking which files have changed. 1% is spent into transferring the difference to the backup. Any backup system that operates on top of the file system would take this much. In addition, unless you’re using something that can take snapshots of the filesystem, you have to stop Immich during the backup process in order to prevent backing up an invalid app state.

Using ZFS send on the other hand (with syncoid) takes less than 5 seconds to discover the differences and the rest of the time is spent on the data transfer, at 100MB/s in my case. Since ZFS send is based on snapshots, I don’t have to stop the service either.

When I used Duplicity to backup, I would backup once week because the backup process was long and heavy on the disk array. Since I switched to ZFS send, I do it once an hour because there’s almost no visible impact.

I’m now in the process of migrating my laptop to ZFS on root in order to be able to utilize ZFS send for regular full system backups. If successful, eventually I’ll move all my machines to ZFS on root.

What’s the second B stand for?

Unless AI dramatically improves from where LLMs are today (in ways that it so far hasn’t), as a worker, I’m looking forward to the drastic shortage of experienced senior devs in a few years time.

If we look at other companies that have been in Apple’s position, this seems to be a temporary state of affairs even if it lasts for a while. If the expectation is for profit to grow year over year (it is), as growth of market share stalls because you’ve already expanded as much as you could, you’d get pressed to find profits by exploiting existing revenue streams. That’s the point when employee opposition stops working. Think of the recent events when the Google Search VP opposed the Ad VP’s requests to make search worse in order to improve ads revenue. The Ad VP got appointed to lead search and the previous search VP got moved to a dark corner somewhere. Once you run out of profit growth in the existing revenue streams, they’d ask you to find profit growth by reducing labor cost. We also saw that happening in various companies over the last little while.

If Apple was a private corporation owned by some people who aren’t looking for ever increasing profits, I’d believe they might not follow this pattern. But they aren’t.

That’s just my guess and the reasons behind it. Could turn out that you’re right and Apple is an exception to the rule. I mean, I hope it does but I’m not optimistic.

Any replacement is subject to the priorities of Apple’s major shareholders and its board. Those push for further monetization of Apple products and services.

WTF, I always thought Dr. Oetker was just another brand of some American multinational. It’s apparently German.

It might be time for the Taiwanese people to take a page from their Chinese comrades and learn that they can’t rely on a private corporation to do what’s in their and their country’s best interest. If they want to keep that democracy, they better reign in their capitalists before they sell the country’s security for profit.

I think you are underestimating the effect. I’ve learned a whole lot in my year and a half here. Enough to develop a decent understanding of what’s going on and what concrete actions I could take in my corner of the world. I think we can’t expect action without understanding of why act and what action. I think discussions here help with that. For all the people who post and comment, there are many who read, learn go find out more, and so on. Some of those would take action that they wouldn’t have otherwise. If we don’t platform that do this, if all there is are corporate platforms that keep people unaware of even the basics of what’s happening beyond the reporting, then the number of people who’d act in some productive way would be even lower.

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Oof, heavy shade. Well done! Makes the Fediverse sound cooler.

Since the project is already okay with Github, perhaps a set of polls in Github with this feature, linked far and wide in Lemmy.

That’s a great point and a really low hanging fruit that would likely help with adoption and retention. The defaults weren’t great for me either.

If people went as far as registering in a Lemmy instance, they clearly have some affinity towards the Fediverse. Getting through Fediverse to work nicely for them is what bridges the gap. It’s the same with anything people do. Better defaults is a trivial low hanging fruit that can help perhaps significantly.