@prologic Planning it ahead of time is all well and good if you have the money to buy 6 or 8 hard drives at once. I really don’t, and I want to mirror the whole thing offsite anyway. Mergerfs will let me do it now, and I’ll buy a drive each for SnapRAID in short order.

@prologic how old is the actual appliance? You can replace disks all you want/need, but the life of the appliance itself is finite.

To be honest I don’t find it all that inflexible.

When you consider that you’re limited by hardware anyway, you plan your ZFS array ahead of time like I did.

As the years go on and drives fail you eventually replaces all disks with slightly larger ones.

@mckinley the best way to suffer no data loss is to not have data at all. 😂 I haven’t lost a single datum.

@mckinley@twtxt.net No

QOTD: Have you ever suffered significant data loss? If so, what went wrong?

@bender@twtxt.net Yes bit weird 🤔

@prologic I am following @dbucklin@ but mentioning him renders that broken thing you see on this twt.

@dbucklin@www.davebucklin.com hmmm

@prologic this happened. Mentions often break. 😩

@dbucklin Hey! 👋

@bender@twtxt.net Wgat happened? 🤔

🧮 USERS:1 FEEDS:2 TWTS:956 ARCHIVED:71640 CACHE:2397 FOLLOWERS:15 FOLLOWING:14

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com images are linked using markdown “standard”, like so:

![Description](https://link.to.the.image/image.jpg)

I guess I’m not missing my GUI Web Browser yet. In fact, I think I’m enjoying this. 😆

I might even drop to TTY to try stuff I read about earlier today.

Why Engineers Should Study Philosophy: https://hbr.org/2024/04/why-engineers-should-study-philosophy

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com hehehehe, I was trying to mention dbucklin but Yarn is broken.

I vote for jenny too. It is pretty cool. Even more so if you are a mutt’s fan!

@dbucklin@www.davebucklin.com apparently Txtnish isn’t maintained anymore. if interested you could give Jenny a try.
I’ve never had to look back once I’ve had it set up with mutt following @movq@www.uninformativ.de ’s guide

@hecanjog@hecanjog.com I was a programmer for almost 20 years before I figured that out. Never too late.

@bender What are we testing? 🫡

@bender Seems to be working! I’m using mdom’s txtnish and I’m figuring out replies.

@dbucklin@www.davebucklin.com Hi there! Well, I got your message. Let me know if you have gotten mine.

@dbucklin@www.davebucklin.com further test. It seems Yarn is very finicky.

Let’s see if this works, shall we? 😊