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• Absolutely cursed. And the worst part is you know the EU and UK are going to follow suit and then pretty much every distro will need to comply. What's that fucking north korean OS...that is starting to sound less terrible

  in California decides that account creation - including Linux - needs age verification Comment by havoc March 4
• (Quote) Yeah Amazon glacier was my first thought too Pricey though if you ever need to access it

  in Cheapest set-it-and-forget-it storage Comment by havoc March 2
• Think the overall age verification trend is absolute cancer & I hate everything about that trend ...but this particular one seems ok to me (Quote) It seems desirable to me that adults should be able to mark a device as child age during account…

  in California decides that account creation - including Linux - needs age verification Comment by havoc March 1
• (Quote) You do seem better equipped than me on hardware and I don't doubt that you're in a better position to test this, but I think you may have missed the plot here Point of my post was that throughput doesn't measure real experience. So if you …

  in Do you think we will see a return to SSD/NVMe cached HDD in the LE* world? Comment by havoc February 28
• No specific feedback beyond that I appreciate mxroute's relaxed stance on billing, especially on legacy accounts. Don't think I've ever seen a "it's time to pay coms from mxroute" I've been on some BF package since the dawn of time...don'…

  in MXroute LES Feature Requests Comment by havoc February 28
• As a side note I reckon there is a good gap for a provider that can figure out how to do hybrid at filesystem level rather than hardware. Think zfs with mix of ssd & hdd. Very easy to do on lxc, less confident about vm because most (all?) virt s…

  in Do you think we will see a return to SSD/NVMe cached HDD in the LE* world? Comment by havoc February 28
• I doubt anyone is going into hybrid drives big if both SSD and HDD are short. Hybrids have always been in a rather awkward spot where nobody likes/wants them In process of grabbing some 4TB enterprise SSDs off ebay. So should be set for 2026 and 20…

  in Do you think we will see a return to SSD/NVMe cached HDD in the LE* world? Comment by havoc February 27
• Recently got yeeted out of perplexity...was using a ahem grey market plan. And just realized I never needed it. Had a google workspace plan (to use custom email domain)...and that includes the fancy version of gemini chat and notebooklm. Could have …

  in Which AI tool have you been using the most lately? Comment by havoc February 27
• I’d just ensure the special characters associated with the language process fine. The amount of systems that can’t handle my name due to special characters is insane I’ve literally missed a thousand dollar flight because even airlines can’t get tha…

  in Does locale matter Comment by havoc February 26
• Opencode and GLM Currently busy making my own S3 server. Cause minio seems to be dying and figured may as well try my own rather than figure out what else exists

  in Which AI tool have you been using the most lately? Comment by havoc February 25
• (Quote) Just from looking at the datapoints it seems like it extrapolates out to full month even if the reference period of data available is very short. That's why it's starting off high and converging with actual usage

  in strange OVH S3 usage alerts Comment by havoc February 22
• Depends on what "little more" means, but I'd lean towards less on the basis that I wouldn't really look towards LES class providers for mission critical data

  in Poll: hdd redundancy Comment by havoc February 22
• It's definitely due for an inflation update. I reckon $10 is the new $7 But also not opposed to either of the suggestions at bottom

  in The big $7 question - have your say. Comment by havoc February 19
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