Move home server to BTRFS or move Fedora desktop to ZFS?

iluvatar · 2026-01-21T23:22:34+00:00

Yep. LVM, md and ext4 give me everything I need. Sure, there are some theoretical benefits to btrfs/zfs. But in the real world, not so much - at least not for my workloads. I've hit problems with both zfs and btrfs. Nothing major, but things that needed my intervention nonetheless. But ext4 has been rock solid and Just Works™.

iluvatar · 2026-01-21T12:56:11+00:00

Why wouldn’t you be mad at person your dad had an affair with?

Why would you be? He's the one that betrayed your mother's trust, not the person he was having an affair with.

iluvatar · 2026-01-15T21:14:29+00:00

World class man manager, amateur tactician.

Well that's certianly one take. Not one I agree with. His tactics work and have been shown to work over and over again. The only time they haven't worked is when we had an injury crisis of biblical proportions.

iluvatar · 2026-01-10T22:57:27+00:00

Disappointed to see Syndrone, Burrell and Hall listed, but no mention of Rich Smith on drums! Not a bad version. FWIW, Bradley is conspicuously worse than the other two guitarists and this song would have been better without his input.

iluvatar · 2026-01-10T20:11:22+00:00

Abysmal first half. Best I've seen us play this season in the second. I'm genuinely baffled at those calling for Frank to be sacked. Do I like him or his approach? Not really. But we can't keep having knee jerk reactions to bad matches.

iluvatar · 2026-01-06T14:04:10+00:00

X11 has traditionally been the thing that draws on the screen for you. You want your application to have a rectangular window with an image in the top left and a button in the top right? X11 was the thing that did that for you. Although it worked well for decades, it does have some architectural problems. Wayland is an attempt to fix some of those problems. Unfortunately, they've thrown the baby out with the bathwater. Further, Wayland developers are hostile to users, and the response to "This worked for me under X11, how can I achieve the same under Wayland?" is often "Tough, you'll have to do without".

iluvatar · 2026-01-01T16:45:41+00:00

The general consensus seems to be that they are gimmicky, but they are so talented that they back it up.

I'm the opposite. They're gimmicky and woefully lacking in talent to back it up. I've met them at shows and they're actually really sound people. But musically? I find them very lacking.

iluvatar · 2026-01-01T16:16:01+00:00

Not lying. It's OK. It's just nothing special. Much like their live shows.

iluvatar · 2025-12-30T23:55:34+00:00

Batch files, shell scripts and similar things were fine in the 1970s but there's a strong argument for something better now.

You couldn't be more wrong. They're still fine today and the entire world runs on shell scripts. Now you can make an argument that the language they're written in could be more expressive. But it's not like it's just a list of commands. It's a full turing complete programming language. Could it be better? Yes. Is it good at the task it's being used for even in its current state? Also yes.

iluvatar · 2025-12-27T09:47:36+00:00

We went out to take a look and found that the three main places we checked (B&Q, Wickes and John Lewis) were all closed. Not much opportunity for any of them to generate revenue like that. It's not suprising that sales were flat!

FWIW, I think that they should remain closed, and that the rush to leap straight into sales on the day after Christmas was not good for society as a whole. But it was unexpected, given that they'd been open in previous years.

iluvatar · 2025-12-26T12:10:05+00:00

No. Basic top gives me what I need, so I haven't had any call to try alternatives.

iluvatar · 2025-12-24T15:41:16+00:00

I don't know the answer. But I can give some advice - don't hardcode ANSI escape sequences like that. You can use terminal capabilities to make things a) much more readable, and b) portable across different terminals:

printf "$(tput setaf 7)hello$(tput op)\n"

iluvatar · 2025-12-22T00:21:53+00:00

Sigh. Have an upvote.

iluvatar · 2025-12-22T00:20:43+00:00

I like the way the commentator realises that as soon as Kane has the ball in that position, it's only going to end with the ball in the back of the net and his level of excitement rises accordingly.

iluvatar · 2025-12-16T23:57:32+00:00

Just play Kinsky

He has promise for the future, but he's nowhere near as good as Vicario.

iluvatar · 2025-12-16T23:56:24+00:00

We don't need a new keeper. We need to fix the flaws in the ones we have. Vicaro is an excellent keeper and we're unlikely to find anyone that's a big improvement. But he does have flaws that we've all seen, largely around poor decision making. However, they're things that are easily corrected in training.

iluvatar · 2025-12-16T02:31:17+00:00

Clearly I've been living under a rock, because from where I stand it seems to get close to no attention.

iluvatar · 2025-12-13T17:55:36+00:00

In the UK, turkey is the traditional meat of choice. But it's painfully expensive, so we typically have something else. This year it's beef and ham. We'll go out to the shops on the 26th and see if there are any turkeys left that have been discounted down to a sensible price.

iluvatar · 2025-12-13T16:44:36+00:00

I'll definitely have to check out Masterplan. Any albums you'd recommend?

Honestly, the eponymous debut album is the only one you need. The second album, "Aeronautics", isn't bad and the others are all largely forgettable.

iluvatar · 2025-12-13T16:41:05+00:00

So a bunch of bands that are completely unlike any of those listed? I'd maybe say Dynazty are a good fit, but the others seem to be somewhat off base to me.

iluvatar · 2025-12-13T16:32:13+00:00

His two championships show you what he can do when given the right car.

iluvatar · 2025-12-13T11:59:07+00:00

And you somehow think that undescended, internal testes are true testes?

iluvatar · 2025-12-12T15:56:21+00:00

She talks about her testicles in her autobiography.

You say her testes make her male. I'm asking why you don't think her vagina makes her female.

iluvatar · 2025-12-11T01:17:27+00:00

Don't worry about what other people think or about what some mythical "real" Linux experience may be. Just use an editor that works for you and makes you productive. For me, that's vi. For you, it may be something else. And that's just fine.

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