In-reply-to » Come on guys, can't we just do Btrfs RAID5/6 already?

@prologic ZFS is fine but itā€™s out-of-tree and extremely inflexible. If Btrfs RAID5/6 was reliable it would be fantastic. Add and remove drives at will, mix different sizes. I hear itā€™s mostly okay as long as you mirror the metadata (RAID1), scrub frequently, and donā€™t hammer it with too many random reads and writes. However, there are serious performance penalties when running scrubs on the full array and random reads and writes are the entire purpose of a filesystem.

Bcachefs has similar features (but not all of them, like sending/receiving) and it doesnā€™t have the giant scary warnings in the documentation. I hear itā€™s kind of slow and it was only merged into the kernel in version 6.7. I wouldnā€™t really trust it with my data.

I bought a couple more hard drives recently and Iā€™m trying to figure out how Iā€™m going to allocate them before badblocks completes. I have a few days to decide. :)

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In-reply-to » Do you believe one can survive surfing the web using a text-based web browser? (i.e: Lynx or W3m) no CSS no Bling for at least 24 hours šŸ˜²

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Well trust me if I tell you that most of my past addictions have started with a ā€œJust onceā€ or a ā€œ24 hrs challengeā€.

Iā€™m reading through the Week Week In TTY thread youā€™ve linked earlier and oh-boy!
People went All In TTY and no X ā€¦ Iā€™m tempted! Although I do not believe I can last more than a couple of hours šŸ˜… but Iā€™ll keep on reading.

And again, Thank you!

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In-reply-to » Do you believe one can survive surfing the web using a text-based web browser? (i.e: Lynx or W3m) no CSS no Bling for at least 24 hours šŸ˜²

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh! Thank you for the link! Iā€™m checking it right away!
I hope I donā€™t get slapped with a ā€œHTTP/1.1 426 Upgrade Requiredā€ there as well.

As for Netflix and Co. I can do without for the time being. I guess I have binge watched enough content I feel like I miss missing it. šŸ˜‚

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In-reply-to » Do you believe one can survive surfing the web using a text-based web browser? (i.e: Lynx or W3m) no CSS no Bling for at least 24 hours šŸ˜²

Decided to give it a try and Iā€™m already starting to feal the pain LOL

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In-reply-to » Do you believe one can survive surfing the web using a text-based web browser? (i.e: Lynx or W3m) no CSS no Bling for at least 24 hours šŸ˜²

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com At work? Not a chance. šŸ˜‚

Private life? Sure. There was a regular community event called ā€œA week in the TTYā€ over at nixers.net, where we spent a week only in text mode. It was easily doable.

There are some things where a graphical browser is pretty much mandatory these days. Online banking comes to mind. I could in theory physically go to the bank, but Iā€™m way too lazy for that. šŸ˜‚

Netflix is more popular nowadays and I wouldnā€™t want to miss that, either.

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In-reply-to » @lyse Speaking of which, can we make any obvious (low hanging fruit) improvements here? šŸ¤”

@prologic I read the help and itā€™s a bit clearer now. Still a bit wonky. I will probably have it already forgotten by this evening. ā€œTermā€ is exact match and ā€œMatchā€ adds some kind of unknown fuzziness on top.

The second bullet point can be addressed I reckon. Itā€™s purely a UI thing. Also, Iā€™d add a short explanation for the search types next to them, so people donā€™t have to look things up all the time through the help or even follow the links to the bleve documentation.

I like the magic detectionā„¢. Thatā€™s what people expect. At least I did.

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In-reply-to » @lyse mind it, English is my second language, though I have been using it since 1992, almost constantly.

@bender I see, thanks for educating me. :-) At least youā€™re interacting with native speakers a hell lot more than I do. Iā€™m speaking English almost every day at work, but itā€™s basically never anybodyā€™s mother tongue.

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In-reply-to » @prologic I remember running yarnd for testing on a couple of different occasions and both times I found all the required command line options to be annoying. If I remember correctly, running it with missing options would only tell you the first one that was missing and you'd have to keep running it and adding that option before it would work.

@mckinley For testing purposes make dev works perfectly.

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