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I also find value in this.

Lately I get a lot of flack for running Debian with xfce but it looks and acts the same every time.

I’ve been through my various stages of customizing and living on the bleeding edge. But now that i have my wish and I work in linux daily, I just want the os to stay out of the way.

You can process these with bash string manipulation alone, but sed and awk will do this pretty easy.

That’s still true, but performance has changed a lot since Jim Salter wrote that. There was a time When 2x mirrored vdevs (the equivalent to raid 10) would have been preferable to raidz2, but performance of both ZFS and disks themselves has improved enough that there wouldn’t be much of a difference in performance between these two in a home lab.

Personally, I agree with you in that mirrors are preferable, mostly because I don’t really need high availability as much as I want an easier time restoring if a disk fails.

just like ssh -X

No, that’s not what’s happening. X11 forwarding is telling the server to treat a TCP socket as a display, and after passing xauth, the frames are just shoveled into an ssh session. Waypipe is serializing Wayland messages so they can be redirected to multiple portals, specifically over a socket. They don’t really work the same at all.

I didn’t know XFCE supported Wayland

Some parts of xfce do, xfwm4 does not.

so I casually ran vncserver, which launched xfce4-session

This is because your vnc is configured to do so.

except that it attached itself to the Wayland display (proxied to my local machine) rather than X display of TigerVNC. And here come the full XFCE right to my local machine (which is running Plasma).

This part doesn’t make a lot of sense.

If invoking xfce4-session works, it means you are doing so over vnc, not waypipe.

I’ll ask your mom.

Most fiber services register the sfp/sfp+ module. it is much cheaper, easier and usually not against the terms of service to just use the isp-provided sfp in your own routing device instead of messing with OLT settingw and custom firmware on a $160 WAS.

The logo is bad. “Dogshit” is appropriate here.

All of this produces a feeling of anguish… Maybe I cannot stand knowing that this could be the standard everywhere.

I have similar feelings about the lack of alcohol taxation and the low rate of rice cooker adoption in the west.

You are struggling to accept the imperfect world as it is. You should stop introspecting on the symptoms and try to figure out why you are unhappy with other people’s choices.

Enshitification happens.

I don’t think that’s a given necessarily, I think it’s a common pattern under the vc funding -> IPO model.

But companies like Steam and Patagonia show that companies don’t all have to follow the same predictable enshittification arc.

Wow, there’s a lot going on in there.

Yes, that’s what I get from that as well.

I guess as long as users get some options for import/export/backup then it isn’t that bad. I’m reading over the docs again and I don’t think it’s as bad as I initially read into it.

This project would benefit from some documentation curation.

Edit: which I suppose I could offer to help with to put my money where my mouth is.

Sigh…

That stupid way of explaining the license plan aside, are we again having to explain that we don’t want our data locked into yet another db format?

Be careful.

Because it only formats stdin streams to into string(s), xargs can be very dangerous, depending on the command to which the arguments are being passed.

Xargs used to be a practical way to get around bash globbing issues and parenthetical clause behavior, but most commands have alternate and safer ways of handling passed arguments.

find -exec is preferable to xargs to avoid file expansion “bombs”, plus find doesn’t involve the shell, so it doesn’t care about whitespace problems.

So I just use it by authorizing my wife a and kids to use fmd commands, which means I just tell my wife to send me a text with “fmd ring” and it will start ringing until I find and stop it.

Also, it will message my wife and kids if the phone gets below 5%

Nice article, and a fresh practical take on FOSS.

FMD is great, I use it frequently.

Let them read the documentation so I don’t have to.

Exactly why the article promotes stupidity. Why in the world would you put those words down proudly?

You do not need a VPS, proxy, or wireguard for letsencrypt.

Setting it up with zero experience with how it works or how ZFS works was quite intimidating for me.

But you got through it, and ZFS isn’t a walk in the park for most. I think you’re selling yourself short.

As someone else mentioned, leaving truenas on the asustor and using a container orchestrator or a hypervisor on the Xeon machine sounds like a good plan to me.

I fully agree.