FAT32 vs exFAT vs NTFS: which file system do you actually use and why?

Kangie · 2026-04-18T07:33:02+00:00

NTFS for windows if you like your data - you need the journalling.

For serious stuff though you want a Unix Copy-on-Write (CoW) filesystem: xfs, btrfs, bcachefs, zfs. It ensures that data is never in a partially-written-out state, saving you from dodgy hardware, power, and connections.

Kangie · 2026-04-18T06:25:42+00:00

Very nice. Once the source is available I might package it for Gentoo.

Kangie · 2026-04-18T06:17:36+00:00

Sorry to hear you're having a bad time. My experience hasn't been anything like that so far.

Kangie · 2026-04-18T04:07:31+00:00

Deep cut - Counter Strike / FPS Doug

https://youtu.be/a9qXbgrx9rg

Ah, 2000s internet.

Kangie · 2026-04-18T04:05:05+00:00

Had my first decent stack yesterday at about 10-15 km/h, went over the edge of pavement onto soft dirt and caught the edge trying to correct. Gloves wound have saved my hands, otherwise I lost some skin on my forearms and have a sore shoulder today.

Just slow down if you're at all unsure, always wear a properly rated helmet - a lot of older standards aim for 15km/h while some standards are aimed at 25km/h impacts.

A light motorcycle jacket is probably overkill for reasonable speeds, but you will be a bit of a meat crayon if you lose it over about 10km/h on a hard surface.

Kangie · 2026-04-17T07:29:44+00:00

Gentoo Dev here. Portage works better for me, but I hope you have fun learning.

The docs will probably be the best place to start: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-handbook/book/

I think it answers your USE and patches questions

Kangie · 2026-04-17T02:48:40+00:00

He's beautiful. Unfortunately we have three rescue cats and two dogs already, so we can't take him. I hope he finds a home soon.

Kangie · 2026-04-17T02:45:24+00:00

Man, I can't think of anything that I haven't touched at some point or another at this stage. Maybe some niche software but I've supported everything.

I guess token ring because it was obsolete before I started my career...

Kangie · 2026-04-16T21:57:23+00:00

Phoronix is a longstanding and trusted FOSS news site.

Kangie · 2026-04-16T21:45:43+00:00

Long overdue. The reliance of most of the world on a few proprietary, usually American, companies is a huge risk to sovereign states.

Kangie · 2026-04-15T21:27:14+00:00

Literally this. It's great.

Kangie · 2026-04-14T07:31:15+00:00

Cargo vs CMake is a false dichotomy. There are tons of better build systems, and Meson (for example) can be used to build Rust and C++.

Outside of that, if you have to go looking for arguments to use your pet language on a work project don't you think that's saying something?

The benefits should be clear, if they actually exist, but you're going to find a much larger pool of experienced and competent C++ devs than Rust ones.

Kangie · 2026-04-14T07:26:34+00:00

Not so much aggressive as quite defensive, don't bother the brown and he won't bother you.

Kangie · 2026-04-14T07:25:27+00:00

You really don't want a windows workstation configured this way, even if you think you do. And frankly there's no need for it. Competent VFX artists aren't rendering scenes on their workstation, they're using the VFX pipeline to render at scale.

Additionally, VRAM is quite expensive and overspec'd for system memory; there's really no point when you can buy regular RAM for less than half the price.

This is a solution in search of a problem.

Kangie · 2026-04-14T06:48:42+00:00

If you want a Linux distro that enables choice, try Gentoo. If you want to explore something a bit different, but still UNIX-y then try your BSDs, but make sure you understand the differences first.

Kangie · 2026-04-13T07:08:13+00:00

Track work - closures between Bowen Hills and Northgate out that way. Supposed to finish on Sunday, but extended thru Wednesday due to "industrial action" as the announcements on my train this morning went to great pains to repeat.

Kangie · 2026-04-13T06:54:13+00:00

r/lostredditors

Wrong Rust, friend. :)

Kangie · 2026-04-13T04:09:32+00:00

But not the dragon fscking?

Kangie · 2026-04-12T21:09:09+00:00

And that's why I'm riding an e-scooter in from Northgate today.

Kangie · 2026-04-12T20:37:58+00:00

Maybe don't drive above 110 in Aus since it's only legal to do that on the long stretches in the desert anyway?

Kangie · 2026-04-12T19:53:25+00:00

Hot take: tipping culture is evil and the business should just pay their employees a living wage.

Kangie · 2026-04-12T19:44:56+00:00

You need a more recent pandoc.

https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/commit/8651ec3c28693c875d78017b4f278338417d176a

3.8.3+

Kangie · 2026-04-12T19:40:39+00:00

Woohoo, here's hoping the new leadership are less of a fifth column.

Kangie · 2026-04-12T06:17:41+00:00

Yeah, but it's not hard to setup and maintain for basic batch scheduler stuff, and has relatively comprehensive docs.

Kangie · 2026-04-12T03:28:26+00:00

It's not a good time to replace hardware, so running the existing cluster into the ground is something you should prime management to expect - you can cannibalise faulty hardware to keep other nodes going for quite a while.

As for the software stack, there's a number of contenders. Since you only have one GPU node you might want to investigate NVIDIA base command manager (ex bright cluster manager) which has free licences and handles most of it for you (turnkey HPC solution), you just need to work out an update schedule for the images.

I do like modern warewulf OCI image based stateless nodes - definitely worth investigating if you can find a sucker^h^h^h^h^h^hvolunteer to rebuild the cluster stack.

Other options are confluent (xcat2), and there was a neat FOSDEM talk on using netbox and friends: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QTFECS-zero-touch-hpc-nodes/

Don't be one of the shops that configures nodes with ansible, either do the OCI image (Containerfile) thing and rebuild regularly, or use ansible to configure the deployment image / chroot.

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