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  • I was trying to argue that candidates that aren't from the Republican or Democratic party haven't been elected from a long time. I looked up the last independent candidate, somehow forgetting that there were more parties. That said, the other candidates are still from more than a century ago.

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  • This is my reasoning:

    1. America has first-past-the-post voting
    2. That means the party with the most votes wins it all
    3. The republican (41.7%) and democrat party poll high, nothing comes close (40.4%) (next up is Kennedy at 9.1%) and the last candidate that wasn't from either party was George Washington (1789 - 1797), therefore a vote for another party is essentially meaningless.
    4. Therefore, either the Republican or Democratic Party win
    5. The candidates for both parties have been determined at this point and are highly unlikely to change unless any of them die, therefore either Trump or Biden wins.
    6. Therefore, all actions come down to 2 things: Increase the chance of Biden winning instead of Trump or don't

    In my opinion, the only way to avoid each election coming down to damage control is to get rid of FPTP voting.

    EDIT: The last candidate that wasn't from either party was not George Washington as lemonmelon@lemmy.world pointed out. It was Millard Fillmore (1850 - 1853).

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    Worst prediction ever

    EDIT:

    Context: This is an archived article from 1939 by "Foreign Affairs".

    https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/germany/1939-04-01/will-hitler-save-democracy

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    Christmas rule spirit

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    Rainbow capitalism moment
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    Maybe we can get good IPv6 support now

    https://www.sidn.nl/en/news-and-blogs/cgnat-frustrates-all-ip-address-based-technologies

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    Using disc spanning for RAID array

    I'm planning on building a new home server and was thinking about the possibility to use disc spanning to create matching disk sizes for a RAID array. I have 2x2TB drives and 4x4TB drives.

    Comparison with RAID 5

    4 x 4 TB drives

    • 1 RAID array
    • 12 TB total !

    4 x 4 TB drives & 2 x 2 TB drives

    • 2 RAID arrays
    • 14 TB total ! !

    5 x 4* TB drives

    • Several 4TB disks and 2 smaller disks spanned to produce a 4 TB block device
    • 16 TB total !

    I'm not actually planning on actually doing this because this setup will probably have all kinds of problems, however I do wonder, what would those problems be?

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    The Magic of RISC-V Vector Processing
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    I forced AI to sing Linux source code
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    ASRock N100m vs BKHD 1264 motherboard for NAS

    I'm trying to build a DIY NAS, I already have some (6) 3.5" SATA disks, a Mini-ITX case, and power supply, but I'm still unsure on which motherboard & CPU to get. I think a motherboard + N100 combo is a good option because of the price and power consumption.

    I'm currently using a MiniPC with an i5-6500T (4784 passmark) and an external HDD enclosure connected with USB using RAID-1 (software) which uses about 35W. The USB enclosure is limited to 2 slots, and I've heard from here that it can be problematic in combination with RAID. The N100 (5551) boards have a slightly better passmark score but most importantly more expandability (SATA & PCIe) and supposedly a lower power consumption. The i5-6500T has a TDP of 65W, the N100 a TDP of 6W, that doesn't say much but it seems to a lot better when looking at info online. The N100 also apparently has Quicksync support while the i5's support is limited and struggles to encode 1080p (100% CPU usage).

    There are 2 main boards I'm considering. The BKHD 1264 and the ASRock N100M. ASRock is a better known brand, but their version only supports DDR4 and 2 SATA ports while the BKHD board supports DDR5, has 6 SATA ports, and has 4 × 2.5G network ports. I've also heard complaints about high temps (90c) with the N100m because it only has passive cooling, while the BKHD board has active cooling and a large heat sink. However, the BKHD board is a bit more expensive (~€150 vs ~€130), but it seems worth it because I won't have to add an external HBA.

    What do you think would be the better option?

    EDIT 2024-05-26: I ended up getting the ASUS Prime N100I-D D4 because it's significantly cheaper (€95). It does have less SATA ports (1), but I accidentally bought a SATA card so that actually works out pretty well.

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    non-Euclidean filesystem

    I noticed that I only had 5 GiB of free space left today. After quickly deleting some cached files, I tried to figure out what was causing this, but a lot was missing. Every tool gives a different amount of remaining storage space. System Monitor says I'm using 892.2 GiB/2.8 TiB (I don't even have 2.8 TiB of storage though???). Filelight shows 32.4 GiB in total when scanning root, but 594.9 GiB when scanning my home folder.

    !

    Meanwhile, ncdu (another tool to view disk usage) shows 2.1 TiB with an apparent size of 130 TiB of disk space! 1.3 TiB [#############################################] /.snapshots 578.8 GiB [#################### ] /home 204.0 GiB [####### ] /var 42.5 GiB [# ] /usr 14.1 GiB [ ] /nix 1.3 GiB [ ] /opt . 434.6 MiB [ ] /tmp 350.4 MiB [ ] /boot 80.8 MiB [ ] /root 23.3 MiB [ ] /etc . 5.5 MiB [ ] /run 88.0 KiB [ ] /dev @ 4.0 KiB [ ] lib64 @ 4.0 KiB [ ] sbin @ 4.0 KiB [ ] lib @ 4.0 KiB [ ] bin . 0.0 B [ ] /proc 0.0 B [ ] /sys 0.0 B [ ] /srv 0.0 B [ ] /mnt

    I assume the /.snapshots folder isn't really that big, and it's just counting it wrong. However, I'm wondering whether this could cause issues with other programs thinking they don't have enough storage space. Steam also seems to follow the inflated amount and refuses to install any games.

    I haven't encountered this issue before, I still had about 100 GiB of free space last time I booted my system. Does anyone know what could cause this issue and how to resolve it?

    EDIT 2024-04-06:

    snapper ls only shows 12 snapshots, 10 of them taken in the past 2 days before and after zypper transactions. There aren't any older snapshots, so I assume they get cleaned up automatically. It seems like snapshots aren't the culprit.

    I also ran btrfs balance start --full-balance --bg / and that netted me an additional 30 GiB's of free space, and it's only at 25% yet.

    EDIT 2024-04-07: It seems like Docker is the problem. !

    I ran the docker system prune command and it reclaimed 167 GB! !

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    qaz @lemmy.world

    I joined Lemmy back in 2020 and have been using it as qaz@lemmy.ml until somewhere in 2023 when I switched to lemmy.world. I'm interested in Linux, FOSS, technology, and several other subjects.

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