Mama told me not to come.

She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Then I’d go with FAT on a USB, which should be plenty portable into the future. You’ll want to replace it every 5-10 years, and check on it every other year or so.

    That’s about as easy to use as I can think of. Decades down the road, physical media like DVDs and tapes may be difficult to find readers for, but USB is versatile enough that someone is bound to have access. Micro SD cards may also be a good option, as long as you keep a couple USB readers around.







  • I don’t even think he’s that bad. The worst thing he did was create JavaScript, which is largely fixed now, and the second worst is donate to an anti-LGBT group with his own money. As CEO of Mozilla, he led a very diverse group, diverse enough to kick him out once they found out about his donation.

    I personally wish he was back at Mozilla instead of the nonsense leaders they’ve had since he left. I certainly don’t agree with his political views, but he built a great organization and I think Mozilla would be in a better place with him at the helm.

    I don’t use Brave as my main browser because I think Firefox is still worth supporting as an independent browser engine, but Brave is my backup if I need a chromium browser.











  • I use BTRFS w/ RAID 1 (mirror) with two drives (both 8TB), because that’s all I’ve needed so far. If I had four, I’d probably do to separate RAID 1 pairs and combine them into a logical volume, instead of the typical RAID 10 setup where blocks are striped across mirrored sets.

    RAID 5 makes sense if you really want the extra capacity and are willing to take on a little more risk of cascading failure when resilvering a new drive.

    ZFS is also a great choice, I just went w/ BTRFS because it’s natively supported by my OS (openSUSE Leap) with snapshots and rollbacks. I technically only need that for my root FS (SSD), but I figured I might as well use the same filesystem for the RAID array as well.

    Here’s what I’d do:

    1. 4x 16TB HDDs either in a RAID 10 or two RAID 1 pairs in one logical volume - total space is 32TB
    2. 500GB SSD -> boot drive and maybe disk cache
    3. 8TB HDD - load w/ critical data and store at work as an off-site backup, and do this a few times/year; the 4x HDDs are for bulk, recoverable data

    That said, RAID 5 is a great option as well, as long as you’re comfortable with the (relatively unlikely) risk of losing the whole array. If you have decent backups, having an extra 16TB could be worth the risk.



  • And then cheating rises again.

    So whatever caused cheating to decrease relative to the population (assuming that’s what’s being measured) is probably to blame.

    Here’s a different explanation:

    1. EA announces new update, so users flock back before it goes live (first major dip)
    2. Update goes live (steeper dip) and more users return to try it out; some cheat engines don’t work on the update, which adds to the dip
    3. Cheat engines start getting patched, hence the rise after bottoming out; number is still lower due to larger population (same number of cheaters)

    A better test is to keep support for Linux for the launch, then drop it in a minor patch update a few days later.