ChojinDSL

Why aren’t you using btrfs snapshots to clone the old filesystem to the new drive?

Make them unite in their hatred for you.

It’s thanks to Gentoo that I’ve been a Linux sysadmin for over 20 years. That being said, I’ve since moved to Arch and then Debian.

Some points: On modern systems you won’t really notice any speed improvements from custom compiling the packages. Apart from maybe some numbers in articial benchmarks. On old systems with very limited resources, you can eke out a bit of more performance. Back when I was still using Gentoo, my proudest moment was getting a Pentium 1 with 96MB Ram (Yes, MB!), which was a gift of a colleague to his broke brother, into quite a useable little machine. Browsing, listening to MP3s, email, some simple games.

I also noticed a noticable improvment in performance in a 400mhz Athlon I had setup for my mom.

That being said, I was only able to do this, because I was using distCC to distribute compiling across several machines to keep compile times to a somewhat sane level. Also, I was doing a unpaid internship at the time, so I basically had all the time in the world, so compile times didn’t really bother me.

I had tried to use linux before. After Windows XP crashed one too many times. I decided to see how things work on Linux. I initially chose a “easy to use” desktop distro. (Mandrake Linux). Got everything setup. Even 3D Accelaration worked. Everything was really nice and fun. Then I tried to tinker under the hood and I broke something that I couldn’t figure out how to fix. So I thought, maybe I need to find something even easier, so I chose Suse Linux. Same story. Set everything up. Desktop working, 3D working, etc… start to tinker, break something, back to square zero.

Then I decided to change my approach and choose the hardest distro. The choice was between Linux from Scratch and Gentoo. Linux from Scratch sounded waay to painful, so I chose Gentoo.

It took me 3 days until I had a somewhat working system without a desktop. Then another 3 days until I had a desktop running Fluxbox.

But the learning experience was invaluable. Being forced to use the CLI and not only that, but more or less configure everything by hand. It takes aways the fear of the CLI and you get a feel for where everything is located in the filesystem, which config files do what, etc… It demystifies the whole thing substantially.

You suddenly realize that nothing is hidden from you. You are not prevented from accessing anything or tinkering with it.

The downside is that Gentoo takes a lot of time and effort to maintain. But the learning potential is invaluable. Especially if you use it to also start doing little projects in linux. e.g. File server, router, firewall, etc…

Me knowing Gentoo, got my first real job as Linux Sysadmin and before long I was training rookie Admins. And the first thing I always did with them was to run them through the Gentoo bootcamp.

Once they go to grips with that, everything else wasn’t that difficult.

You can’t put a price on love.

Once you understand how the Linux bootloader works, restoring it is easy if windows breaks it. The other way around is more tricky if windows refuses to cooperate.

That being said, using a rescue usb like systemrescuecd will allow you to boot a Linux OS even if the bootloader isn’t working properly.

I always felt it was a failed attempt at US propaganda, because my take away from that movie was: Americans come in. Don’t know shit about the local people and their customs. Get overwhelmed. Run away with their tails between their legs to their base and fuck off.

It’s kinda like the movie “Aliens”.

Designed evolved.

Big surprise. Americans messing around with other countries to benefit their interests.

Sorry did not know that was a supremacist. I just remembered that quote from somewhere. Regardless of the source, it rings true. Be it Israel, trump, religion, etc.

Just looked up the Wikipedia article. That guy was seriously fucked up. My bad.

Well, duh!

“If you want to know who rules over you, just look for who you are not allowed to criticize.” - Kevin Alfred Strom

Funny how with any other country the west has a hair trigger with calling out genocide, but Israel gets a free pass somehow.

Bullshit. Utter total bullshit. “From what you know…” Apparently not a lot and you obviously don’t live there.

American Walls and doors are just paper maché anyway, so he could have killed them just as well by throwing the bullets at them like Charlie Sheen in Hot Shots.

A gay BLACK man!! Black! Omg. Won’t somebody please think of the children!?

I guess in this day and age, one should be happy he wasn’t shot by police.

Athlon II? What is this? A server for ants? ;-)

That seems quite underpowered to be honest. Jellyfin per default does quite a lot of things per default during startup or as a background job. Sometimes you need to dig deep into the config settings and also disable certain timed jobs.

What OS are you running on?

Big surprise. 🙄

Sounds like a lot more effort than to simply cremate the bodies.

What the actual fuck.

How much storage do you need and how much are you willing to spend?

What if everyone started to dress exactly like that? Try and arrest someone then motherfuckers! Real life Spiderman meme ensues.

It never was a democracy. The fact that the popular vote and the representative vote can produce different results proves this.