Monkey With A Shell

Sounds like I have a new test pod to set up. Lemmy is nice, but the devs are kinda out there. Lack of app support has been the big holdback from trying out PieFed.

You won’t believe what it is!

He knows the pain

Every so often I continue to be impressed with some of the unexpectedly specific sites that someone took the time to make.

Some comms are treated like the mod’s personal sounding board. Post what they want but refuse any discussion on it.

Lost the last G

That’s pretty well what I started with 20 years or so ago, had them in some little box with some funny Nvidia CPU. That go upped to a pair of 3 TB that have somewhere around 10 years uptime on them if I recall by now, and kind of spiraled from there. Rsync on a schedule is nice for that.

Just part of a lab built over the years. Primary storage is a Dell R730XD filled mostly with 12 TB drives all set up in a ZFS array comprised of mirror vdevs, so redundant by default plus the built in ZFS snapshots for the rare need for a rollback on a dataset.

It only recently got that big because I had a mixed set of drives going back years and finally decided to work on getting them all to the same size and picked 12 as a good cost/volume balance, can find them at used server parts shops for a bit over $100 each.

Major risk is I don’t have a good auto alert for smart monitor issues, so just make sure to occasionally manually copy the vital stuff like photos to an external drive.

How do you stream it if nobody downloads it to seed things? The whole premise of seed ratios isn’t just a bragging score, it’s aiding the communal health.

Besides, I have around 60 TB of space here, that’ll hold several versions of damn near every Linux distro out there for a while, it’d be a shame to waste it.

I could wish this where fact, but it fails to take into account that beyond punches you also need social grace and appearances surpassing Ralph Wiggum…

And it’s organic too

Oh fuck off on both sides of that headline. Sure, we’ll let you create more monopolistic ISP lock in, just so long as you’re not making any effort at not being a biggot while you do it.

Yeah, it could be meterage I guess, not sure if the non murica-verse uses a similar expression.

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/acer-spin-1-sp111-32n-c2x3

Specifically it’s one of these, or at least in the nearby product line. A mere 32GB of storage and 4 GB RAM so you can get away with some pretty lean specs. Used the XFCE version if I recall. Basically just give it a try and there’s a good chance it works

I have Mint on an old Acer 2 in 1 that is barely capable or installing Windows just for the size, so it’s possible but of course YMMV.

There’s a technical loss going from an analog to digital format just because of the fact that it’s a sampling of the sound wave. Similar to why Pi has no end and you could never calculate the exact measure of a circle, it can get as close as necessary for human consumption, but will never be the pure wave form. Thing is that even an analog format like vinyl isn’t a guaranteed perfect recreation just because of micro changes created any number of things that could cause a cutting head to be just a fraction out of line with the original.

What’s absurd about the whole argument is this notion that if you take a bit perfect copy of something and duplicate it that somehow inherently something is lost. Somewhat interesting way to consider it, we as living beings do that whole code duplication thing countless times a day just by cellular division as part of living, and for the most part it works without a hitch even without the error correcting code that computer systems have. With digital replication at least it’s simple enough to say that sequence A equals sequence B, therefore they are identical.

Pretty sure I still have some media for mine here even. Software might be a hunt to find where it got stored at though.

Assuming there’s no conversion I might have added in. Yes if you change from wav to mp3 or similar there will be changes. A disk image copy, or even placing a digital file onto a disk doesn’t alter the content regardless of burned or pressed, only the method of storage. A hash of the file should return the same regardless assuming no errors in the writing.

A CD, burned or pressed, will be a replication of the source as presented in a digital format. If you have to covert true analog sound to digital then the sampling rate will have some technical loss, though not perceivable to most humans.

A digital to digital copy will be a 1 to 1 replication of the data, there’s no expectation of loss other than perhaps physical error of the drive, which even pressed disks can suffer from if the stamper is worn.

Edit Source: literally worked in a optical media replication plant back when DVD was still a fairly new thing. It starts off making a glass master disk in a clean room. From that, a positive metal stamper plate is created for production runs, tested periodically to verify the output still matches the master dataset. Once the metal stamper is worn to the point of causing errors it is replaced.

Burned disks are functionally identical to pressed disks in operation but work by darkening bits in the media layer. They degrade easier because of the photo sensitivity needed to let the laser change their state.

Updated: 4/28/2025, 10:30 AM EDT: This article has been updated to reflect that 4chan appears to have come back online, according to a blog posted on the site on April 25.

Short lived but even if 4chan died the various spinoffs, some far worse, still exist. There will always be a place where the wild things are and they’ll continue screwing with society just for the lulz.

Well now I’m gonna burn one of my RW disks just to make this wrong.