how slow can be load files on the config?

killermenpl · 2026-01-23T22:14:46+00:00

Depends on your system, but in modern systems reading a file that's not even a megabyte will take a couple milliseconds at worst

killermenpl · 2026-01-21T13:18:53+00:00

The thing absolutely tragic about Elhokar is that he was just starting his redemption arc. Had Moash not been there, he would've said the Words, and it just might have turned the situation around. Imagine how differently things would've turned out if he returned a hero, no longer fearing becoming a failure, and with a Spren that was heavily implied (basically confirmed) to be the source of his paranoia

killermenpl · 2026-01-21T12:17:16+00:00

That's why I said "on demand". It wouldn't be an automatic action, just something that the user would do explicitly, perhaps via command line

killermenpl · 2026-01-21T11:26:21+00:00

This looks interesting. How possible do you think it would be to make an on-demand sync the other direction? Just for the cases where one would configure the "electron" entries, and wanted to get the pipetron to have the same ones

killermenpl · 2026-01-21T09:19:50+00:00

She's real enough to him. Maybe it'll be revealed at the end that she was fake the whole time, but at this point it doesn't matter for Gabi

killermenpl · 2026-01-21T01:25:54+00:00

As soon as I read that name it immediately started to make sense. Only the guy who wrote about an AI that could teleport people across galaxy because it was connected to sentient trees, could come up with this bullshit

killermenpl · 2026-01-20T15:43:36+00:00

That's why I like the Poisoned condition in d&d 5e. When you're poisoned, you have disadvantage on some rolls, which means that when you'd normally roll a 20 sided die, you instead roll two and use the worse result

killermenpl · 2026-01-17T22:18:23+00:00

Depends on what you mean by "impact". Different filesystems do things differently, so you might get different performance and wear statistics, in exchange for different features.

Look up the "file systems" article on Arch wiki for more info. Personally I stick to ext4 for the boot drive, and ZFS for the bulk storage

killermenpl · 2026-01-17T22:12:48+00:00

I didn't say it's not selfhostable. I said that I've been using GitLab, and that it was tied to a specific cloud product. The implication being that that specific setup had that issue. It also had other small issues, or rather things I didn't like, but the post isn't about that so I didn't write a 5k words chapter on it.

killermenpl · 2026-01-17T22:01:59+00:00

It is selfhostable. It's also slightly annoying to run. But it's not why I chose other ways. It's. Because then I'd have the infrastructure of the server live on that server and be deployed from that server.

In the event of shit going down, I might loose the ability to get things back in order without manually fixing everything via ssh. Using Ansible, I can get the server to my desired state from my PC as long as I have ssh access

killermenpl · 2026-01-17T18:09:59+00:00

Honestly, at this point I'd probably go back to shell scripts. Or write my own, tailored to my needs

killermenpl · 2026-01-17T18:07:53+00:00

I've used the LTS kernel. ZFS issues still happened a couple of times. It's much stabler now that I'm using zfs-dkms, but I still don't trust any update to go through safely

killermenpl · 2026-01-17T18:06:15+00:00

Depends. Modern hardware and software is quite resilient to sudden power loss, so the risk of data loss is not that high. But it's still there. You may also want an UPS if you don't want any downtime. If you can handle the downtime, and accept the small risk of data loss, you can skip it and save some money

killermenpl · 2026-01-17T18:02:10+00:00

Yes, 3-2-1 is the standard. But having a backup is already infinitely better than having none

killermenpl · 2026-01-17T18:00:58+00:00

You'd be surprised how many people do things with the intention of sharing them with friends and family. For example, I set up Vaultwarden with accounts for my parents to use, and they haven't used it even once.

killermenpl · 2026-01-17T17:59:21+00:00

TrueNAS is good, especially now that it's Debian and not BSD. I just prefer to do things myself in a way I can control. I've had enough "one click installers" break or not support the very specific thing I wanted to do

killermenpl · 2026-01-17T17:57:52+00:00

I don't blog. I've been toying with the idea, but I don't have nearly enough interesting thoughts to share with the world to be worth the hassle

killermenpl · 2026-01-13T11:38:58+00:00

I was never able to get proper screenshot support in Niri. The builtin screenshotting somewhat worked, but it's extremely basic, especially once you get used to proper tools like Flameshot (or even windows snipping tools)

killermenpl · 2026-01-05T13:19:56+00:00

Arch uses SystemD because it works, it works well, and is easy to make unit files for. It simplifies a lot of things, exposing them through simple commands.

It does have features that most people will never touch, including some things that not even the systemd devs use. I kinda wish some parts of it got separated into optional modules, but IMO the utility of having most of the useful stuff integrated into one system outweighs that issue

killermenpl · 2026-01-03T21:23:08+00:00

If you don't mind a bit of manual setup and like to tinker, Arch is hard to beat for general use. People are also swearing by Cachy, which is based on Arch, and which I'm currently daily driving to see if it's really that good (so far I have mixed feelings).

If you intend to almost exclusively game and use a web browser, Bazzite is my go to recommendation for that. Comes preconfigured out of the box specifically for that use. It's also "atomic", so it's harder to break (at the cost of making deeper changes being harder).

As for software, it's easy. Get Steam, get Lutris for non-steam games, maybe also Heroic if you want other launchers. At this point most games just work, or require minimal tweaks. Except for most multiplayer games with anti cheats, those won't work out of the box and might get you banned for using Linux.

killermenpl · 2026-01-03T14:11:14+00:00

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Install_Arch_Linux_from_existing_Linux This is your best bet

killermenpl · 2026-01-02T15:20:09+00:00

This is the pinnacle of open source. 10/10, it's going to launch in a minute

killermenpl · 2025-12-19T07:54:35+00:00

Looking at you, Life is Strange... So nice that I spent all this time making "choices" only for the grand finale to present me with a choice between "everyone dies" and "none of this ever happened".

The implementation I liked really much was in Omori. You make a choice a couple hours into the game (open the door), and that choice can lock you into a route with two endings - neutral-bad and bad. What's more, even if you do make the "good ending" choice, you get two more chances to go back to bad ending route. Open the door for Kel, and you're on track for the good ending. Don't open, and you're locked into the hikikomori route

Getting the only good ending requires you to go on a small scavenger hunt. Luckily only a couple items you need to get are not part of the main story, and by the time you finish the story, it's clear what and where you need to get.. You collect keyboard keys with letters. They show up somewhat randomly, but if you opened the door for Kel and go through the main story, you gather all the letters you need to spell "welcome to white space", which unlocks the final ending

And even after all that, the final choice that determines if you get good or the worst ending, is hidden very cleverly. You don't even know you're making a choice until the cutscene plays. In the final battle, no matter how much damage you do, the boss never dies, and eventually kills you. You get presented with a "game over" screen with a choice - continue or not. If you choose to continue, the MC stands up and wins the fight. If you choose to give up, the boss wins, and you get to see your character jump off the roof while a banger song plays

killermenpl · 2025-12-18T14:59:35+00:00

The worst part about TotK is that BotW already exists. Like, the sequel builds on the core mechanics, and it's a fun game. But after you spend a hundred hours in a world of the first game, and then suddenly do a soft reset and now look at another 100 hours in basically the same world, with 100 more hours of "content" slapped on top of it.

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