btrfs device add /dev/newdrive /

btrfs device remove /dev/olddrive

I’ve heard they shut down domains for no reason and without appeal process.

When the internet was new, hip and cool in 1997 it was the best way for a poor student to really get knees deep into networking and hosting. I just haven’t seen much reason to try anything else.

I did use OS X for work when doing iOS development a few years.

And in a perfect world I’d rather run a UNIX certified operating system. Linux support is just so good at the moment that I can’t really be bothered.

There’s plenty of BBSes still being hosted on hardware like this. Like fria bad.

Most of them do require a proper PETSCII terminal, to keep the lamers out.

No, it needs a lot more babysitting than 4.5 does. 3.5 was on the same level of mistakes, at least on the quants I have to use.

Running qwen3.6 27b through llama.cpp.

It’s about as capable as sonnet 3.5.

I use it for light scripting, but real coding is done by cloud models.

I’m also using it as the brain for my Hermes agent. It sends me digests of news, subreddits, chats that I’d like to read but don’t have time for. It does a great job researching things on the web for me, too.

I’m surprised to see comments of people actually using it. I know it’s been topping distrowatch forever by inflation numbers.

There’s an infamous usenet-thread with Torvalds and Tanenbaum arguing over monolithic vs microkernel design. I microkernel is cleaner from a separation standpoint, but that also introduces hurdles and overhead.

Linux is popular because the hardware support is pretty great. There’s few laptop/BSD combinations that work well with sleep/suspend/wifi, while just about any laptop will have everything working with a recent Linux kernel.

Yeah, I mean apocalypse scenario is not my main goal. But it’s nice to have a contingency plan if shit would hit the fan.

This is my second season with the caravan, I had an apocalypse sailboat before that. I put 2x100W on it for the first season, added another 2x100W this season while going from 160Ah lead-acid to 300Ah Lithium. It’s a night and day difference there already.

I’m plugged in most of the time, either for air conditioning or heating - the Mrs wants her comfort. There’s a three-way absorption fridge (220V, 12V or gas) that draws like 110W. I can still be unplugged for three nights or so with that running; which makes long distances or overnight ferries possible without ruining food.

And if we want to stay somewhere without shore power we can flip the absorption fridge to gas and be cooking with gas as well. The compressor fridge chest that sips 30W usually sits in under the awning in front anyway.

You’re right.

Well, still enough juice to pump all the water we need and heat our meals.

We’ll just have to limit hot showers to once a fortnight. Needs about 800Wh to heat the hot water tank.

I don’t power all of it at once, and not direcly off of solar. I could maybe fit another 200W worth of panel on that roof, but for 4000W I’d need seven caravan roofs. That battery is the buffer and it’s a beast. At 300Ah I have 4kWh to pull at 1C.

The fridge sips a nice 30W. Panels put in ~2kWh on a sunny day. So thats a 1.7kWh surplus for running heavy loads - enough to max out that inverter for an hour a day. That’s plenty for microwaving or pumping water.

If power is down for good, then getting water is the main priority. If the pumpa don’t run the water tower is losing pressure fast. I have 40 litres jugged up in the basement at all times for the first few days.

When that dries out my neighbour has a well that we’ve hooked up to five properties. Mostly for gardening, but it is potable. The pump needs power, though, so I’d pull an extension cord over to my caravan.

My caravan has 400W of solar, 300Ah LiFePO4 and a 1.5kW inverter. Also a meshtastic node with an antenna on the roof. That’ll keep the food cold, and laptops charged. It can run a microwave or hotplate, too. I’ve got 20kg of propane if I need to conserve power.

Linux has extended quite a few system calls. Not really a problem as they mostly support the POSIX ways.

But there are a few corner cases around threading and file locks that do break on mainline Linux.

Not too big to overcome, as there are exceptions like EulerOS that are both compliant and certified.

Pros:

• I have the source. I don’t have to wait for fixes or features. I just do it myself and send a patch or PR upstream.
• I can run it on just about anything, and well.
• Sane defaults and handling of user permissions - by design
• Modern filesystems that don’t silently rot your data
• Full control
• No forced updates
• No telemetry

Cons:

• Not a priority for pro applications
• Not fully POSIX compliant

I haven’t used windows in almost 30 years, but… I probably missed some games at first that DOSBox couldn’t run well (yet). Not a problem any more.

Probably not. LiFePO4 keep their bulk at an even 13.7V

Your lead-acid probably floats around 13.5-13.8V. the charger might pulse or occasionally go even higher to desulfate the batteries. That’d either leave your new expensive battery undercharged or worst case damaged (or have the BMS cut it off).

zram makes sense if you do not have swap.

zswap is probably enabled by default in most distros. It compresses cold pages on the fly so that they’re ready to quickly get swapped in and out.

I do hit the swap partition occasionally on my 32GB systems.

It doesn’t really kick in until you have proper pressure. I want my swap partition for hibernation, anyway.

My first distro shipped with pico, so I often choose nano for an edit. Micro is fine, too, but I won’t go out of my way to install it.

I challenged myself to write a couple of projects in neovim over a month or so. I finished my projects, but it still felt like the tool was getting in my way. Muscle memory is to break. Current job requires a bigger IDE, but I still do my commit messages with neovim.

I’ve had better luck with llama.cpp for opencode. I’m guessing it does formatting better for tool use.

Gemma4 doesn’t Turboquant. But it is leaner on the KV cache.

edit: looks like there are forks that do turboquant already

It’s a good way to keep the exploit around for seven days, too, if you apply it right away.