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  • There’s different kinds of backups. For this you don’t need off-site storage.

    For this I set up zfs auto snapshotting which means when I delete stuff it isn’t really deleted because a snapshot is still pointing at it until it rolls off the time window.

    Both zfs and btrfs can do this but you do need to change the filesystem to use these which can be a lot of work.










  • Your senses do not feed back into evolution. It’s all random mutations that happen to make it slightly better at surviving. Generational survival is the pass/fail signal.

    For many things that seem to require a large single leap in progress it turns out that there is a clear story of gradually developing it over a long time.

    You might like Richard Dawkins’ book The Greatest Show On Earth





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    5 months ago

    I have had the same Arch install for years where Ubuntu on the other hand breaks after 2-3 major version upgrades from accumulated cruft.

    It is important to keep Arch updated but sometimes I go a month or two without doing it.

    Occasionally they have some update that’s not backwards compatible and you have to be a bit careful about it but if it breaks someone already has the answer on the forums from earlier that week. You can also install “informant” which displays the latest arch news post before installing because they usually warn you when there’s a breaking change.





  • I’m running FreeBSD I actually like it a lot.

    I picked it for zfs. A lot of the ways things work seem cleaner and simpler than on Linux and zfs is awesome with the copy on write snapshots and filesystem compression and all that. I like rc.conf and pf is way nicer than iptables and even when you upgrade it automatically makes a snapshot so you can rollback.

    Sometimes I do need to patch and compile things because people seem to not know freebsd exists but that’s really the only downside.