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It’s just that the system freezes for me when I used to run out of memory when I had only 32 GB of memory. Then I couldn’t do anything and had to hard reset the computer with its reset button. Then it would be nice to have a little bit of swap to kill some stuff before literally everything just stops working.

I had a feeling they were talking about polyamory, but I wasn’t sure since it felt a lot like over-sharing. But I guess it’s good to announce any and all use cases for something like this, why not. 👍

Pardon my ignorance but what is a poly group?

😁 Excellent. I hope you find the answers you seek!

I can’t help here, sorry about that, but please don’t run commands that an AI gives you. At the very least I hope you checked the docs for that command and made sure you understood what it would do before running it. That should be the minimum. Ask humans first, please. 😅👍❤️

I don’t need support for RAID at all to begin with I think. I just need to make my existing drives network-accessible. 😁

I do not have backups at all. This is just… warez. Nothing too important to backup, really. It would just be annoying to download again.

Ooh, okay, definitely sounds cumbersome at first glance.

Alright, cool, thanks for the heads-up regarding wiping with Synology!

Yeah, I mean, my special case is basically only that I have a lot of data and I don’t really have anywhere to store it temporarily before installing it in a NAS. 😅 So that’s why I want to just plop them in there… But I don’t know what the best way forward would be to turn my drives into network drives. Just a small drive bay maybe.

Yeesh, okay, I see.

Then maybe some kind of compact drive bay would suit my needs better for now, that I would just connect to a mini PC of some sort.

Thanks for all the info!

Thanks for the notes on network storage access protocols!

A big point of a NAS in my mind is to run some sort of redundancy, which means you will want to setup a RAID on the drives in the NAS

Cool, thank you for that as well, and I was aware of that so I thought I would mention that in my previous comment. But I was specifically wondering if I could in fact just chuck them in as-is and it would be able to access the drives? Because like, they’re separate drives, right? How would that work in a non-RAID setup when accessing from another computer? Would they show up as separate drives? Is it at all possible?

I’m new to NAS hardware and how it works.

If I buy a NAS, say from Synology, would I be able to just chuck my existing EXT4 HDDs full of data in there and it’ll work? Maybe even one or two with different file systems? I’m not too worried about backups or RAID yet.

What are the limitations of dedicated NAS hardware? Can I also… “store” stuff on there? Like, say, have a “schmorrent” 🏴‍☠️ client save “data” directly to the drives from another computer on the network? Or do all services interacting with the data storage need to run on the NAS hardware?

So you can install packages? It’s not a fully immutable system?

Agreed. 😄 Arch and pacman definitely adheres to this philosophy of “unless you know what you’re doing”. Pacman allows this type of selective upgrade, and it allows to ignore any package you like during a system/all-package upgrade, which may or may not break the system.

You can also post-install make changes to the database of installed packages, like change the install reason for a package (as a dependency or as explicitly installed).

All these things are happily executed without warning. 😁

The reason for the need to check the news is that the system can have any combination of package versions installed, and requiring manual intervention by the user in any quirky upgrade situations helps to keep the complexity down of the system and package manager. I think it’s worth the low complexity.

The overhead of checking the website is super low. It’s basically the same as checking the release notes when there’s a new version of Ubuntu, or whatever other software you might be curious of. Same thing.

essentially made all your games run within a sandboxed instance which has a limited set of binaries that emulate another mini OS within your primary OS.

Isn’t it just library bundling? It’s not like it’s running inside a virtual machine or anything.

I can see the Rocket League process right there when listing my user processes, e.g.

There are so many conflicting reports regarding the performance on Flatpak, for Steam but also in general, so I don’t know what to believe.

At least one source said the performance overhead is negligible on modern hardware, so I think I’m gucci.

That’s not what they were refuting. They were just saying that containers run on the metal just like any other software.

🙂

If you only update once a month (which should be fine as well, definitely), then you only need to check the news page once a month too, less often than I do probably. 😄 Seems like a win-win. 👌

You can also selectively update packages of course, but this is strongly ill-advised unless you know what you’re doing.

But like, doas pacman -Sy firefox should be fine…

You didn’t hear it from me. 🤐🥸

Yeah, vaguely 😅 I use syslinux for booting, habit from when I used to dual boot, so I was luckily not affected. But yes, it is definitely wise to check the news before upgrading system-critical packages!

How much is a Mac Studio though? I imagine it would take me a few years of power consumption to catch up to the difference in price. 😅

What do you have to do to work your GPU down in power consumption like that?

Hey, if you have the space and don’t mind the extra heat and electricity consumption 😎👌 all good by me.