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  • Never ask a man his pay, a woman her weight, or a data horder the contents of their stash.

    Jk. Mostly.

    I have a similar-ish set up to @Davel23 , I have a couple of cool use cases.

    • I seed the last 5 arch and opensuse (a few different flavors) ISOs at all times

    • I run an ArchiveBot for archive.org

    • I scan nontrivial mail (the paper kind) and store it in docspell for later OCR searches, tax purposes etc.

    • I help keep Sci-Hub healthy

    • I host several services for de-googling, including Nextcloud, Blocky, Immich, and Searxng

    • I run Navidrome, that has mostly (and hopefully will soon completely) replace Spotify for my family.

    • I run Plex (hoping to move to Jellyfin sometime, but there’s inertial resistance to that) that has completely replaced Disney streaming, Netflix streaming, etc for me and my extended family.

    • I host backups for my family and close friends with an S3 and WebDAV backup target

    I run 4x14TB, 2x8TB, 2x4TB, all from serverpartsdeals, in a ZFS RAID10 with two 1TB cache dives, so half of the spinning rust usable at ~35TB, and right now I’m at 62% utilization. I usually expand at about 85%



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    6 months ago

    Amazingly, for someone so eager to give a lesson in linguistics, you managed to ignore literal definitions of the words in question and entirely skip relevant information in my (quite short) reply.

    Both are widely used in that context. Language is like that.

    Further, the textbook definition of Stability-

    the quality, state, or degree of being stable: such as

    a: the strength to stand or endure : firmness

    b: the property of a body that causes it when disturbed from a condition of equilibrium or steady motion to develop forces or moments that restore the original condition

    c: resistance to chemical change or to physical disintegration

    Pay particular attention to “b”.

    The state of my system is “running”. Something changes. If the system doesn’t continue to be state “running”, the system is unstable BY TEXTBOOK DEFINITION.



  • I think the confusion comes from the meaning of stable. In software there are two relevant meanings:

    1. Unchanging, or changing the least possible amount.

    2. Not crashing / requiring intervention to keep running.

    Debian, for example, focuses on #1, with the assumption that #2 will follow. And it generally does, until you have to update and the changes are truly massive and the upgrade is brittle, or you have to run software with newer requirements and your hacks to get it working are brittle.

    Arch, for example, instead focuses on the second definition, by attempting to ensure that every change, while frequent, is small, with a handful of notable exceptions.

    Honestly, both strategies work well. I’ve had debian systems running for 15 years and Arch systems running for 12+ years (and that limitation is really only due to the system I run Arch on, rather than their update strategy.

    It really depends on the user’s needs and maintenance frequency.


  • My favorite city builder in decades. A few notes.

    Pros:

    • Easy mode is relaxing and quite easy.
    • Medium mode is a fun challenge at first, eventually becoming fairly chill as you advance in skill and confidence.
    • Hard mode is always fairly hard, especially on harder maps.
    • There are many resources to manage, but none that feel burdensome.
    • The game is extremely thematic, it feels alive with charm.
    • Graphics are excellent, though sometimes graphical glitches can still be encountered.
    • The water. It’s so hard to explain to someone who hasn’t encountered this system before, but water is life in this game, and it’s both beautiful graphically, and extremely well simulated by physics. Learning to control the water, and see the shortest paths to end water scarcity with beaver engineering is an amazingly fun and unique aspect of the game.
    • Mods are well supported and the community is vibrant.

    Cons:

    • Not a ton of content. They’ve been very good about adding new mechanics (badwater, extract, etc) but there’s still just 2 races of beaver and a dozen or so maps.
    • No directed experience. In similar games I’ve enjoyed a campaign, challenge maps/scenarios, weekly challenges, a deeper progression system, just… Something to optionally set your goals. There’s nothing of the sort in the vanilla game. It’s fully open ended and there’s only one unlock outside of your progress though the resource tree in a map.

    All in all, I highly recommend it, especially at the modest asking price. If you love city builders, charming and beautiful art, thematic settings, dynamic challenge, and solution engineering, this is a fantastic game for you.

    Other games I’ve enjoyed that scratch similar itches:

    • KSP
    • Cities: Skylines (but Timberborn has been far more compelling)
    • Factorio
    • Mindustry
    • Planet Zoo (Timberborn has less of a directed experience, but is otherwise completely superior)
    • Gnomoria
    • Banished
    • Tropico series (though I view this as more casual)

    Get it and have fun is my recommendation.