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I've used NixOS, it's a great project and has some benefits that can't be overstated, however if you're going to give it a try completely you kind of have to go down the rabbit hol…

I used to use NixOS, and I do have some of the best ZFS support out of the box I've seen on Linux. I'm not sure if the approach of using zfs boot environments would play well with …

loader ZFS integration is really great on FreeBSD, do people occasionally want to use something else? Is that why you would consider looking to support other options? Really would …

Looks to be that's what they have done. They've developed a new tool called `zsys` https://github.com/ubuntu/zsys which will help with system administration, rollbacks, auto snapsh…

I haven't tried it myself with encryption, but I can't see it making a difference. The bootloader, and initial ZFS setup will be what needs to be changed to facilitate encryption.

In 20.04 they will have ZFS on root with BEs as an install option, looking forward to seeing the first major Linux distro making it available as a default.

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I've been using the syncthing for years, and in my opinion it's so much better than a solution like Dropbox. If you want, everything can be done on your lan, it offers encryption, …

I've always used Nginx as a proxy, but I've seen HAProxy mentioned, what are some of the benefits of using HAProxy over nginx as a proxy or load balancer?

Also one of my favorite games. Such interesting characters and puzzles. Another gem from this era is Grim Fandango, which also has a recently remastered version.

I used to dislike Java, then recently I discovered java streams, and some of the nice features with newer versions like more immutable types. After that I found Java a whole lot mo…

As someone with chronic neuropathic pain, there are some times where pain does need to be eliminated in order for you to live a fulfilling life. Not all pain is necessarily related…

Pretty amazing what can be done with bash, and it looks very impressive. I can't believe all the features that were able to be put together to make using the library essentially gi…

Interesting article about how multiple faults can be handled. Name should probably be "Double Faults", the website is "Writing an OS in Rust ", but the post is about double faults.…

Agreed, after getting halfway through I couldn't finish it as it turned into a mindless rant.