[-] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 22 points 1 week ago

And I still don't know what's the point in separating /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin and /usr/sbin.

This goes back to the olden days when disk space was measured in kilo and megabytes. /sbin/ and /usr/sbin have the files needed to start a bare bone Unix/Linux system, so that you could boot from a 800kb floppy and mount all other directories via network or other storage devices as needed.

[-] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 47 points 1 week ago

Mostly historical reasons, /home was often a network mounted directory, but /root must be local.

And only regular users have their home in /home

[-] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 14 points 2 months ago

Systemd has config options for automatic restart of crashed services. https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.service.html#Restart=

[-] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 27 points 2 months ago

My home server does all my network related stuff (including DNS and DHCP) turning it off would be a very bad idea due to this.

I don't have a UPS, but it is relatively high on my list.

[-] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 15 points 2 months ago

The "modern" way would use systemd to implement the mounting, either on a system or a user level. Using fstab can be problematic when the drive is missing or otherwise not available during boot.

Not sure what KDE uses exactly for auto mounting.

[-] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 17 points 2 months ago

There goes my million dollar idea ๐Ÿ˜ญ

But cool, literally, that something like this exists. On the other hand, it is not really rocket science ๐Ÿ˜€

[-] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 18 points 2 months ago

Lokal temperatur is not the same as global temperatures, it can be cold in one place and blazing hot in another...

[-] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The problem is the direct contact to the water, a blanket with water running through it in a circle with a heat spreader or a different cooling device would solve that and would reduce the amount of water by a lot. The blanket would be a bit heavier but by that it would double as a weighted blanket too.

Instead of a blanket the same could be built into the mattresses, not really a water bed but a bed with water cooling.

Devices, for example computers, get cooled like that.

[-] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 20 points 2 months ago

And how do you keep that from deteriorating and decaying? It would be meat after all and meat has the nasty property to get really bad in very short time without a living body attached to it keeping it fresh.

[-] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 22 points 2 months ago

If you get paid for it you are a whore, if you do it as a hobby you are a slut.

The stigma is there, regardless of the money aspect. They will just use a different word.

[-] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

FOSS developers have no cost reporting, no meetings with C level and stakeholders, no shareholders, no release plans, no schedules. What they have is passion.

They just created what they want to create, they have a deep personal agenda to make something they want to use for themselves and that has to have therefore the polish and quality they want to have it to have.

The corporate developers wanted to make a good product too I am very sure, but if the higher ups say that it has to be released by a fixed date then there is not much that the developers can do about it.

So yes, the company has no real excuses, besides money.

[-] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 49 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Creating a good emulator takes a lot of time and money, and that I think is the true reason why.

What they have released is a MVP, a minimum viable product, it checks all the boxes for a releaseable thing and that's what the higher ups, the product leads and other finance stakeholders want to hear.

Additional features or proper scaling? Yeah, nice we put that on the list for MVP+, for sure! When will that come? Nobody knows and we have no development time to work on it because now with the release the focus was shifted to the next project, but it is on the list and we will come back to it.

I have heard that so often in so many projects I was part of, as a grunt with no power, and for nearly all of them I still wait for the MVP+ time to ever happen.

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