also, when and where did you buy those 16 TB drives? I badly need a few like those

also, when and where did you buy those 16 TB drives? I badly need a few like those

If the drives added to the pool need to be formatted, is there a possibility that it wipes the data on it?

that’s what I meant, yes, but you said you have 2 16 TB drives right? at least with ZFS, setting up a mirror can be done only starting with a single drive. It’s a godsend.

first, you take the empty drive, check that it’s actually empty, and if so, create a ZFS pool of a single drive from it, with zpool create. copy all your data over. you can use rsync, it has a bunch of options for preserving most filesystem metadata, and for printing progress.

when done, check that absolutely everything got transferred, and add the other 16 TB drive too to the pool with zpool attach. doing this will convert the pool with only a disk vdev, into a pool with a mirror vdev of 2 disks.

further recommended reading: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/man/master/8/zpool.8.html

you may want to enable compression from the beginning. if you do it later, existing data won’t be compressed. media files mostly don’t benefit from this. compression is enabled on the dataset level, with the zfs command, if you set it to lz4 (recommended alg) for the root dataset, everything will be compressed that way.

can’t it be activated with MAS?

https://massgrave.dev/

the remaining question is if its effects are additive or multiplicative

the remaining question is if its effects are additive or multiplicative

nowadays RAID is done with software, on linux if possible. common choices are ZFS and md-raid. you connect drives with SATA or SAS to a computer, and you can add them to a pool. drives added to pool will be formatted once.

hardware raid is discouraged, because if the RAID card fails you need a replacement of the exact same kind, with same firmware version, and they can have other difficulties too that software RAID solutions don’t.

a better analogy would be people who write software for the cameras. screenwriters are closer to software testers

People who’ve written doctoral theses on machine learning and and natural language processing have asked me for help building their gaming rig.

I think that could still be different. knowing the internals of the computer is different from knowing which brand to buy, how to combine, compatibility, drivers, etc

tower is fine, but I think what you mean is the desktop PC. and the little square ones are the mini PCs

oh I thought it’s a joke that things are defined, or others are “immediate from” something else, while actually not. like how they love to teach this topic without explaining what is necessary

they are arguing that a children’s game platform shouldn’t host porn

That said, it’s easy to keep kids off instagram and TikTok without spying. Simply require devices to which children have access to be sold without access to half the internet. Problem solved.

how would you that? most children aren’t buying their phones by themselves

Your prior comment was for newcomers?

no, it was for everyone.

This was obviously written for people with quite a bit of knowledge. Most newcomers would have absolutely no idea what any of it means.

the point was not to explain how encryption works, but to paint a picture about how many details matter a lot, so that the reader can know that just some kind of “encryption” does not mean much

yes, that would be ideal, but at any point in time we will have newcomers, for them it won’t be obvious

Even people that are very low information on technology, know that the Internet is a source of potential surveillance, and having your info on the internet in any form is a potential for being surveilled. Everybody knows that all the big IT companies are trying to gather as much information as they can. And Amazon is right at the top among them.
So to claim they were ignorant of Amazon possibly collecting and sharing their data is a bit far fetched IMO.

you are largely overestimating the capabilities of the average consumer. most don’t even know on a surface level how the internet works, and what dangers it poses.

encryption wouldn’t solve the problem, just raise more questions. how is it encrypted, with what algorithm? was the alg implemented securely? who has the decryption keys? how were the keys generated? were they generated from a good enough entropy source? these are non-trivial questions that have to be asked in an encrypted system where encryption is not just a gimmick or a marketing buzzword.

having encryption and “secure!” plastered all over the box and the phone app does not mean anything, especially when you need protection against the manufacturer.

but but why would you do that?

idk, I think it’s sensible that it’s part of room history. also, other platforms do that too.

what is not sensible is that loading them is slow, but I don’t experience that even in popular rooms

I was asking to find out if the slowness could be because your server does not support sliding sync for some reason (the newer faster sync method that doesn’t try to load everything), but matrix.org does. I don’t use that server anymore because they are way too overloaded for years, but maybe that’s the issue here too.