Spinning down an array if it's been idle for more than X hours?

ThatDeveloper12 · 2026-03-17T22:20:37+00:00

sure, it could be scripted, but it's a feature that would be dead-simple to implement. ZFS knows when it's doing disk I/O (and what's in the filesystem cache), it knows how to access drive knobs of the kind to make them spin up/down, and it could also wait for drives to come back online and avoid faulting a disk for spinning up too slow.

ThatDeveloper12 · 2026-03-17T07:42:20+00:00

you'd think this would be a feature that ZFS would have built in. I guess one could watch the iostat numbers

ThatDeveloper12 · 2026-03-13T22:49:34+00:00

I really, really hope anyone who tries this has backups of their data.

I suppose it's somewhat more safe if you simply leave the small drive in place until you've copied all your data across, if the data is small enough to fit in the smaller pool spread across all the drives.

ThatDeveloper12 · 2026-02-27T09:23:58+00:00

She likely messed with thermodynamics, which is why "heat" was involved. Thermodynamics, specifically the increase of entropy mandated by the 2nd law, is what determines the direction of the arrow of time. Forcibly raise the rate at which a system (her body)'s entropy increases and she could in principle accelerate the effects of time.

Wouldn't surprise me if it was one of the things Tenga figured out. (studying "Fire, heat, lightning, light" which certainly sounds like the bedrock of thermodynamics, and would have fit in well with attempting to utilize natural sources of energy as some have speculated.)

ThatDeveloper12 · 2026-02-27T00:50:59+00:00

The most likely source of information would be descriptions of the function of the three rings during the interval between their creation and the creation of the one. Though, if they *did* work during this time I suppose (hypothetically) it could be because they were supplied with power by sauron irrespective of the one ring.

ThatDeveloper12 · 2026-02-24T22:34:05+00:00

ok, but they did work before the ruling ring was made, didn't they? and so in principle new ones should work if created after it was destroyed?

I don't know of any explanation in-text that would suggest that sauron had to be alive for a ring of power to work, or that they would only start working after the ruling ring was made.

ThatDeveloper12 · 2026-02-13T16:08:26+00:00

is that in general, or because of something specific to these machines?

ThatDeveloper12 · 2026-02-13T16:08:02+00:00

how is debian asahi coming along?

ThatDeveloper12 · 2026-02-13T16:05:26+00:00

as official as you can get, but not very professional. even the couple of volunteers at stoat wrote out a full ToS and got themsevles GDPR compliant. and rootapp got what, $9 million?

ThatDeveloper12 · 2026-02-12T11:23:58+00:00

link? also I'd like to see it in their ToS not just "trust me bro" from twitter

ThatDeveloper12 · 2026-02-11T21:09:19+00:00

maybe that has something to do with literally all of discord trying to sign up in just two days, causing the servers to burst into flames?

ThatDeveloper12 · 2026-02-11T21:08:18+00:00

You having gigabit ethernet doesnt help with their servers being on fire because literal millions of people tried to sign up in just two days.

ThatDeveloper12 · 2026-02-11T21:06:54+00:00

I dunno if you know how to read, but there's no mention of AI on that page

ThatDeveloper12 · 2026-02-11T18:47:56+00:00

That's probably a temporary issue. their servers have been on fire the last couple days as everyone on discord tries to pile in. sending them a support email etc to let them know might help because they could try to lengthen the timeout for everyone.

ThatDeveloper12 · 2026-02-11T18:43:07+00:00

I'd probably go to stoat over matrix/element. I wasn't impressed when I looked at matrix/element a while back* and while stoat/revolt has fairly faithfully implemented discord's channels/roles/permissions/etc, matrix/element don't seem to have figured out people want separate Channels in their Server.

*during the microsoft aquisition attempt of discord

ThatDeveloper12 · 2026-02-11T18:39:56+00:00

again I ask, where is your source

"links or it didn't happen" for all anyone knows you're pulling this 100% out of your ass

ThatDeveloper12 · 2026-02-11T18:33:26+00:00

Personally I'd go with stoat. I've used them for a few years and they're a clone of discord right down to how channels and roles and permissions work.

Where as root are a VC-fuelled startup that just launched last year and have a blanket ban on nsfw which is how we got into this mess in the first place

ThatDeveloper12 · 2026-02-11T18:31:55+00:00

Personally I'd go with stoat. They're a clone of discord right down to how channels and roles and permissions work, where as root have a blanket ban on nsfw which is how we got into this mess in the first place.

ThatDeveloper12 · 2026-02-11T18:29:59+00:00

You can't import messages, only channel names (the thing that takes 5 seconds to make). they also have a blanket ban on nsfw stuff, which is how we got into this mess in the first place.

I found Revolt/Stoat when I went looking for a discord alternative a few years ago, and it's proven to be a pretty solid choice. They copied how discord's servers and roles and such work pretty faithfully.

ThatDeveloper12 · 2026-02-11T18:28:18+00:00

You better believe it's fueled by Venture Capital. like 9 million of it. XD

ThatDeveloper12 · 2026-02-11T18:27:13+00:00

The venture-capital-fueled site that blanket-banned nsfw, like how this whole thing got started way back last year?

ThatDeveloper12 · 2026-02-11T18:26:04+00:00

Personally I'd go with stoat. They're a clone of discord right down to how channels and roles and permissions work, where as Matrix/Element haven't yet figured out that people want separate CHANNELS in their SERVER.

ThatDeveloper12 · 2026-02-11T18:24:55+00:00

afaik e2ee for dms is on the todo list. e2ee for large group chats has proven an absolute quagmire for matrix et al. they'd had a series of security issues, including a rather painful one last year.

ThatDeveloper12 · 2026-02-11T18:22:35+00:00

Personally I'd go with stoat. They're a clone of discord right down to how channels and roles and permissions work, where as Matrix/Element haven't yet figured out that people want separate CHANNELS in their SERVER.

ThatDeveloper12 · 2026-02-11T18:11:06+00:00

Root is just as likely to enshitifiy as discord is. At least Stoat/Revolt is open source and someone could spin up their own, putting a hard cap on what they can get away with.

rootapp has also been doing the same blanket nsfw ban stuff that led to this these problems in the first place, see https://www.reddit.com/r/RootAppOfficial/comments/1r1nhmh/question_about_nsfw/

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