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Cake day: October 17th, 2023

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  • I remember when I got a Kobo Glo ereader a decade ago, I was soo excited to have an ereader that wasn’t tied to Amazon.

    So I booted it up, and it immediately wanted me to not only register, but to download a program on my computer, and do it from there.

    I refused and got pissed.

    I started googling and found a guide to hack it.

    You had to manually modify the Sqlite database and create a user there.

    After doing that, it just worked.

    The feeling of relief and accomplishment was fantastic!






  • I am an actual sysadmin, at my last place of work I was the only Linux sysadmin, I still worked mainly in a 365 environment as a Helpdesk technician and a VIP technician.

    At my current place of work I am a 365 admin.

    I thought that since building a NAS is in the interest of other sysadmins, and when I posted my last thread it was fine that I should continue.

    Especially since it seemed pretty dead since I posted the last time.

    Some semi-related content seemed better than no content.

    But if these questions are better served by another community, I will move there.

    And yes, /r/sysadmin is the best forum for getting help in the sysadmin world that I have used.




  • Yeah, I am a bit weary of hwraid since I have no experience with it, I have some experience with software raid.

    My initial plan was going with Linux set up an mdadm raid and run an LVM on top of it, though the more I think about it, it feel like more of a lab/experiment scenario, snd I may get another NAS build to lab with.

    As it stands now, I’ll probably go with TrueNAS and ZFS since it will be running in “prod” at home.








  • It is funny, people always seem to default to the lowest number of a big number they can think of when thinking of a big number.

    “I want a hundred”

    “I want a thousand”

    “I want ten thousand”

    “I want a hundred thousand”

    “I want a million”


    I realize that for Trump and the US ten thousand dollars is like throwing pennies at a poor person assuming they will be overwhelmed by seeing “ten thousand”.

    Same in movies, unless a guy is supposed to be super smart, they will only refer to money as:

    • 100
    • 500
    • 1000
    • 5000
    • 10000
    • 50000
    • 100000
    • 500000
    • 1000000
    • 5000000

    They very seldom go, “I want 370000” unless there is a reason in the plot, never to just get more money.


  • Sounds like I need to get a another computer in addition to my NAS to do some testing with.

    To be honest I am not 100% locked in on MDADM + LVM and EXT4, I am used to LVMs and have a decent understanding of them, and basically no understanding of ZFS.

    From what I can see bit rot is not a huge problems for home users, I’ll add that to the plus side of using ZFS, and decide what I will do when I get the hardware.