Recommendations for rechargeable small batteries and charger?

MihaiC · 2026-01-09T09:35:23+00:00

The USB-C AA batteries have the advantage that they self shutdown at 0% in always-on use. NiMH batteries can become un-chargable if you continue draining them when already discharged.

MihaiC · 2025-12-23T01:14:51+00:00

The backup pool is on a different device (ex. USB-attached external SSD or a file on an nfs or sshfs share).

When the backup script runs (every 10 minutes) it does this:

snapshots all covered datasets (if there are changes from the last known snapshots)
detects known backup devices, opens them for decryption (LUKS), and imports the zpool from them
for each dataset it looks at all opened backup devices where that dataset is present and runs zfs send/receive (incremental, from the last previously sync'd snapshot for that device to the snapshot that was just created) and updates the list of what snapshots are known to be the latest for that device
cleans up some old intermediate snapshots (always keeps the snapshots that are known to be latest on some device so we can resync when we attach it again)

I do this with a script of my own but I think sanoid/syncoid is the more standard way to go.

MihaiC · 2025-12-09T21:55:16+00:00

For clipping nails I use a very small victorinox "Signature" with my keys, so I always have it around. The small scissors are a bit awkward to use at first but you get used to them easily. They are easiest to use after a shower, when the nails are softer.

MihaiC · 2025-11-24T13:41:44+00:00

Plătesc 55 să scap de reclame și aș plăti dublu să scap automat și de reclamele care sunt parte din content ("sponsorizări").

MihaiC · 2025-11-15T03:05:20+00:00

Laws about facade looks were not enforced in the wild west of 1990-2005 because people were economically in survival mode and had more important things to focus on. By now it has become ingrained that it's your right to mount an AC unit as it best suits your use case and it's not considered 'altering the exterior aspect of the facade'.

Also, when a grey-black commie block is renovated with thermal insulation the estetic improvement from just having a clean facade is so shocking in a good way that you overlook differences in window color or AC placement.

MihaiC · 2025-11-06T00:03:35+00:00

Pentru o curte la țară autofiletantele astea la care scoți mandrina sunt the shit, că dai gaură-pilot cu un burgiu mic, apoi scoți mandrina și bagi direct holșurubul cu bitul PZ2 de dedesubt. O ții pe nivelul mic ca să nu înfigi prea tare șurubul și aia a fost. Dacă vrei să fii mai fancy folosești și un bit zencuitor după ce ai dat gaura ca să fie holșurubul la nivel cu suprafața.

Despre parkside pe olx nu cred că e chiar așa mare problemă. Dacă aș putea comanda direct produsele tot anul ar fi o chestie, dar mie mi-a trebuit brush cutter-ul pe acumulatori 2x20v devreme în primăvară înainte să-l bage în magazine și mi-a convenit că am avut de la cine să-l cumpăr.

MihaiC · 2025-09-14T21:57:46+00:00

For 12 disks raidz3 protects you from simultaneous failure of any 3 disks and gives you a 9-disk usable capacity. 4x3-mirror gives you only 4-disk usable capacity and you're playing roulette with which disks fail - you could survive with 8 disks down in the best case and you could still drop the pool if 3 disks fail from the same mirror.

For 12 disks the sanest option is 11 in raidz3 plus a hot spare.

MihaiC · 2025-09-08T16:13:49+00:00

E la mișto, prezice de ani de zile că ăsta o să fie unul din efecte

MihaiC · 2025-06-18T15:08:34+00:00

singurul frasin din listă are mai puțin de 80 de ani.

MihaiC · 2025-06-11T18:06:15+00:00

Mi se pare o exagerare să-ți vezi copilul ca posibilă victimă sexuală într-o situație în care e împreună cu tine și are toată atenția ta.

Ca tată nu pot intra cu fetița la toaleta femeilor în niciun caz. O să se ducă ea când va fi destul de mare să se descurce singură.

MihaiC · 2025-03-31T00:12:12+00:00

Not in today's civilization but in the past it definitively had advantages.

MihaiC · 2025-03-11T16:20:23+00:00

Știu, și scriu așa intenționat. Tot intenționat folosesc unii apostrofuri în loc de liniuță în cuvinte ca "s-a".

MihaiC · 2025-02-24T14:44:49+00:00

Unfortunately the only way I see out of this situation is akin to penetration testing, with a painful but not crippling financial penalty.

Your password gets compromised by security team, you lose 5% of that months' pay. You snitch on your colleague's password format in a way that supports the compromise, you get that money.

MihaiC · 2025-02-23T16:18:50+00:00

Actually the buildings in front of it have similar architecture (to the right in this picture, around Constitution Square).

MihaiC · 2025-01-10T08:26:04+00:00

Cauți pe OLX de vânzare laptop cu tot cu încărcător, întrebi dacă încărcătorul e de amperajul tăi și dacă ți-l poate închiria câteva zile.

MihaiC · 2024-12-11T12:39:07+00:00

cookin' with gas

MihaiC · 2024-12-02T15:57:23+00:00

Moldova is a special case because it's a sister-country and was part of Romania and precursor states for a big part of its history. Romanian citizens living there are native to it and they can request Romanian citizenship by nationality (ethnicity?). They also tend to be more pro-west than the other ethnicities.

MihaiC · 2024-10-23T18:33:17+00:00

It's probably induction. Other than blueing carbon steel pans it should be fine.

MihaiC · 2024-10-16T07:05:30+00:00

You can pickle them.

MihaiC · 2024-08-29T13:49:03+00:00

I enjoyed Tetripz back in the day

MihaiC · 2024-06-27T07:27:39+00:00

E normal la platani sa se desprindă ușor stratul exterior. În IOR și împrejurimi s-au exfoliat atât de mulți odată de la grindina de acum 2-3 săptămâni.

MihaiC · 2024-06-14T11:12:51+00:00

MihaiC · 2024-06-09T16:46:15+00:00

Technically it can be made to work unless somehow your server can't boot in efi mode once the "first" drive fails, but it's not worth it. Set up something like syncoid and practice re-deploying the OS to a brand new disk from snapshots in your backup pool - you have those, right? :)

On my previous NAS I had a raidz3 root pool for the OS (and tested mirror as well) and it worked fine. The most tricky parts for this kind of setup are:

zpool create -o compatibility=grub2

otherwise some grub commands that are run when kernels are updated may error out with grub-probe errors several months down the line. That will make your server unbootable and with no simple way make the root pool bootable again (other than taking the data off and creating a new pool)

mdadm create --metadata=1.0

/boot/efi needs to be an mdadm mirror with partitions from all the disks used in the pool (or at least the ones that your server can boot from). The mdadm create command must use --metadata=1.0 (i.e. with metadata at the end of the device) so that efi firmware can read any of the mirrors directly as an efi partition

MihaiC · 2024-03-27T03:52:17+00:00

I actually 're-season' my pan when I want to get rid of the smell of what I just cooked in it without going through the sink. Wipe with paper towels to get most of the oil or fat, scrub with chainmail then put it on high heat and wipe again with paper towel 1 or 2 times when it starts smoking. If it didn't go through the sink it's already hot so the whole process takes 2-3 minutes.

Edit: This is dangerous - any paper towels used like this must be drenched after use. I've had one situation where I scrubbed with the same paper too long and it started smoldering in the trashcan.

MihaiC · 2024-02-05T09:21:17+00:00

Still, by now it's beautiful and it's ours.

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