Get lucky - just as this was starting I saw a failed disk notification on my NAS so I ordered a new drive just before they went up. Then I realized it was a stale notification for the drive I replaced a year ago so I have a spare should one fail.

somebody is going to want cash in

Maybe. The hard drive makers have long experience with boom-bust cycles. They are likely trying to figure out if this is real, or just a blip and in a two years (when the new factory opens!) demand drops again.

If there is new capacity in the future my guess (guess!) is that this is a case of a new factory to replace the old, and they just keep running the old for another year instead of scrapping it right away.

Start with a problem. What you trying to solve. Hosting music is different from backing up your computer. That is different from a home dashboard.

Because I have no idea if the questioner is going to do that beforehand

Yamaha is a bad example as they are in too many non-overlapping industries. It works for them, and can work for you, but in general it is best to focus more than they do. Of course as you get large you have more experts and so you can expand. Just because pianos have nothing in common with ATVs doesn’t mean Yamaha shouldn’t be in both, but if you are not as large as they are the lack of overlap means you can’t personally be a deep expert in both.

Companies you should diversify what they do within the area of their expertise. You don’t want to go diversifying in areas that are too far outside your expertise because then you you can’t leverage the excess you already have to do things, but if you’re within your expertise, that means that if the one thing doesn’t work out because the economy is down, maybe that other part is working well and you can still make money.

When IPv6 was first created, the dream was that your machine would get a new IP address any time the whole network felt some need for that. The idea was, as someone added a network, we may need to change the way your systems are numbered in order to make the backbone routing a lot easier to fit in memory. This hasn’t seemed to work out, but that was the dream.

I assume your ZFS system has plenty of redundancy. Thus, I would enable snapshots and do a regular rotation because ZFS snapshots are so easy to recover from for most disasters. What that leaves is the catastrophic losses from, say, your house burning down. So you still need something off-site, but the ZFS will cover most of your backup needs.

I did the monthly arch upgrade and had to reboot to get some service to come up. Took an extra 5 minutes this month.

It might be but it is risky - if anything goes wrong there goes that data.

The problem is people don’t want a focused community. They want a broad community so when they have a question they can ask and find an expert - but not so broad that the noise means they can’t follow anything. We do focused communities because the world (or even internet) has too many people and so the noise of all the discussions is too much. However that isn’t what we want.

Unfortunately downvote is the standard response to ‘i disagree to this insightful comment’. They really should just track total votes as a ‘this is how important others feel your coment is’. There is value in downvote for ‘not bad enough for a reasonable mod to delete but still bad’. (.ml is not a reasonable mod - they delete anything)

There are several people who work on linux who live in California who thus are subject to California laws. There are people who don’t live in California who sometimes travel to California and thus could be subject to those laws at times (see a lawyer)

Many projects are doing the “not for use in California” thing. I’d set the birthday to yesterday - it is the safest. This is only useful as a do-not-track, and kids get the best protection there. For anything else - kids are well able to change their birthday on the computer, so if you want to protect kids from harmful content (whatever that is - no two people agree if you dig deep enough) you need something that is stronger than a claimed age.

I use grocy for chore /task management. Then home assistant to put it on a dashboard that looks nice. I’m not totally happy but it is the best I’ve found.

I had a few cousins who took and finished all my grandma’s unfinished quilts. They were already into quilting though. YMMV, but it is a good example - if there is someone who can understand/take this over give it to them.

Core or Scale? If running Core I’d say install plain FreeBSD on it. Even if scale I’d consider that in a full wipe - FreeBSD is great as a server and supports ZFS out of the box without problems.

Then grow a long beard (not optional, even if female) so you can be “the old guy who has seen it all”

Will they not leak? I have lost too many devices because the battery leaked. I don’t use my tent light often but I need it to work when I’m in the middle of nowhere

That is the problem when any forum/community gets “large” - to make it possible to find anything in the noise they have to be extremely strict about a narrow topic and killing anything not in that narrow topic. This in turn makes the mods look like jerks. Don’t read the above as saying the mods are not jerks, or defending them. Often they are jerks even when they don’t have to be.

What we need is a way to select everyone into smaller groups of random people who know something but don’t overlap. I sometimes want a couple doctors to discuss some deep issue near me, but 1000 would be too many. I sometimes want to talk fishing with a few people. There are millions of other topics someone can get in depth in and my life is better when I hear a few of those conversations - but all million is overwhelming. I don’t know how to do this though - there are too many “anti-vaxer” types in the world that sound like they know something about a topic when you don’t know anything about it: but they are worse than nothing.

I would by from system76 or framework - dedicated linux companies that will ensure things work.