Yes. That’s not mutually exclusive with Backblaze having access to your backups.

K

They only needed about 500GB.

And personal is for desktop systems. You have to use Backblazes macOS/Windows desktop application, and the setup is not zero-knowledge on Backblazes part. They literally advertise being able to ship you your files on a physical device if need be.

Which some people are ok with, but not what most of us would want.

Recently helped someone get set up with backblaze B2 using Kopia, which turned out fairly affordable. It compresses and de-duplicates leading to very little storage use, and it encrypts so that Backblaze can’t read the data.

Kopia connects to it directly. To restore, you just install Kopia again and enter the same connection credentials to access the backup repository.

My personal solution is a second NAS off-site, which periodically wakes up and connects to mine via VPN, during that window Kopia is set to update my backups.

Kopia figures out what parts of the filesystem has changed very quickly, and only those changes are transferred over during each update.

It doesn’t take forever tho. Because it just goes directly to the latest package versions.

Also I recall there being checkbox on whether to do it when starting the install if you’re online. No need to override the system into allowing you to do an offline install.

Yes. When installing windows 11, it does not show you a desktop before it has updated everything. Which depending on how many updates have come out since the ISO, and your connection, can take HOURS.

Yes.

I only ever install windows for other people these days, and having that take longer than it needs to is by far my biggest gripe.

The ads are a solved problem for me, in that I don’t personally use windows.

I fucking hate how Windows makes you sit through it downloading and installing updates before you get to use it.

I know you can bypass it but you shouldn’t have to.

Yes please.

I’d love libreoffice in a browser, but the way collabora achieves it is abysmal.

It combines capacity without any fancy striping. It can still provide some performance benefit as different blocks of the same file can be stored on different drives, but it doesn’t stripe data across the drives for performance.

It also allows you to just add more drives later. The drives don’t need to be the same size or type. You can also remove drives, provided there is enough free space to move the data on a drive to the ones that will remain.

It really just pools the storage capacity into one big volume.

If a drive fails, it still takes the whole volume with it tho. But as long as you monitor smart, it is fairly simple to try ejecting it from the device group before it takes the whole thing with it.

with three drives, raid1 doesn’t make sense

In raid1c2 mode btrfs will give 3TB of usable storage with 3x2TB. It always stores two copies on two drives. Not three.

If you just want to combine their capacities, and don’t need redundancy, just use single mode?

No need to use a raid mode for multi-device btrfs.

Edit: You could also do two volumes.

Split each drive in half. Use the first half of each drive for a raid1c2 volume to get 1.5TB of redundant storage for important data.

Use the second half of each drives for a raid0 volume to get 3TB of faster storage for games.

It’s non-starter for technical, too.

You have to ship client updates to all your users.

I think of myself as release candidate male.

Meaning, still waiting on feedback from testers before going public.

Eventually.

But the problems were more along the lines “oh no, it’s so powetful, it’s becoming god”.

I’m referencing events in the show.

The tripled rate is specifically for 10-14.

Except in the show, AI actually solved problems, instead of causing them.

Among 10-14 year-olds?

At that age, your biggest problem should be losing a video game save file, or at worst losing your first pet. All while still surrounded by loving and supportive adults.

What the hell are we doing?

This is biased, since I started it, but: !gameart@sopuli.xyz

Haven’t posted myself much lately, but it’s kept trucking along with neat posts from other people.