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copperfoil

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    Comment #31549828

    Yes but there’s a price/reliability/performance trade off. Also, with disks that big failures become qualitatively different. For example, when a disk fails in a mirror, the bigger…

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    Comment #30484261

    I've setup a server running 24/7 and I barely have to turn on the heaters even in 30F weather. I think the building is insulated. Also glad my gaming laptop heats my lap. It's terr…

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    Comment #30484233

    Yeah, there's no verification of a server's pubkey like ssh (which mostly is trust-on-first use), or a cert chain like tls. This seems like a cool proof-of-concept. There are also …

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    Comment #27556568

    I may be wrong, but most studio monitor speakers have limiter circuits that prevent damage from high volumes, iirc. E.g. Adam Audio or KRK speakers. These are in $100-200 per speak…

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    Comment #26585303

    Linux servers aren't like mass consumer products. It's assumed users know what they're doing and can build and configure what they need on top of it. > This is 2021 and the technol…

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    Comment #26585230

    > The beauty of this solution is that it's dead simple and will never fail. Alerting can fail or be ignored. It's not that straightforward IMO. Would this file be deleted before th…

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    Comment #18846680

    > You have to pick the distros you want to support, and then once you've picked a distro, what versions you want to support. What if game developers release the game's source code …