Also, any non-trivial system has failure modes that are not binary. Like, if your convertible car has the roof stuck down you can drive it, but you will be sad if it rains. So, is the car “up” or not? Similarly, if your site has writes offline for a database upgrade, but reads work fine, is it “up”?

The concept is just advertising and something that makes sense to senior management, but provides no actual useful metrics.

I came from Debian and Arch and was pleasantly surprised at how easy to set up and run NixOS is. I’ve been using it on my personal laptop for months now without any major issues.

I use MoCA at home, 1 GBit. It works pretty well, and I get almost full speed.

Every now and then I have some blip and have to power cycle on one of the coax-to-Ethernet connector, so that’s annoying. It’s like twice a year, so not a huge problem.

The biggest drawback is high latency. It’s milliseconds instead of microseconds in the house. I guess it’s buffering and framing, so maybe unavoidable.

I also do see some small packet loss. Less than WiFi, but not zero like you’d see from a proper Cat6 cable.

Maybe just but a pair of MoCA adapters to try in your setup?

Lots of different reasons.

Some hated the GPL, viewing it as less free (which is kind of true depending on who’s freedom you care about… personally I care about freedom of users and protecting society from large corporations, but you do you BSD fans).

Some disliked the crappy network stack (the superior UDP performance and IPv6 compliance were much touted at the time… although my own benchmarks didn’t confirm the BSD folks beliefs there). It may be hard to imagine with all of the innovation in networking layers that continues in Linux now, but that was the situation 20 or 25 years ago.

Further on networking, some disliked the ipchains/iptables (now nftables I guess) firewalling and whined constantly about how much better pf was. My firewalling needs have always been simple (except for whatever horrors Docker forces on me), so I never understood the rage.

Some complained about the terrible threading model in Linux (back before this was essentially solved in Linux, leaving Linux threading far superior to BSD threading).

Some pointed to the plethora of distributions as inferior to the obviously better model of the OS shipping with a blessed set of tools (think FreeBSD “base” or whatever).

Some bemoaned the lack of “jails” in Linux (essentially a primitive form of containers).

Anyway.

I think basically it was just annoyance that people used Linux instead of their favorite.

I used to use Linux.

I still do, but I also did in the past.

I worked at a company filled with BSD zealots. Their burning hatred for Linux was all-consuming, bad really put me off of the lot.

We were so close to a phone usable by non-enthusiasts with the Nokia N1. The Nokia Linux phones were killed when Nokia hired a former VP at Microsoft to be their CEO. I’m still bitter.

So cool!

I thought vaporware was announced or promised code that never materializes, or shows up much later than claimed. Often used by big companies to squash competition, who typically have very real solutions available.

Worse than NixOS?

I use Jottacloud for off site restic backups. You have to use rclone, but it’s not too tricky. I don’t know how well it works outside of Europe. It’s cheap and can store terabytes of data!

Using some very basic security, like minimal services and keeping stuff patched and having backups, and you’re probably fine. I’ve run stuff locally at home for decades and never had a security issue as far as I know. (I did have a problem with a hosted server that I shared with some friends 20 years ago, because at that time updating Fedora was a hassle and we let it get behind on updates.)

Your eu.cc domains are fine. You don’t need to spend money on a 2nd-level domain if you’re happy with the longer name.

For comparison, I’ve had a nl.eu.org domain for decades, and never had any issues. I also had a number of .tk domains for a while and those all went away when the business managing the domain got sued out of existence. I currently use nom.es domains for various tests.

My family only has one car. We don’t have pre-recorded seat settings, but it would be handy.

You never know. I thought Devuan was a fantasy but the team’s burning hatred was enough to make it work. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ah great. It looks like you have a mostly empty encrypted partition with LVM on top of it. If memory serves you might be able to resize the logical volume and the ext4 filesystem in a single command.

I prefer file systems that checksum data. Without this it is difficult to know when there has been corruption. I generally use brtfs for this reason.

Bless you, comrade.

Super interesting! I have a jar with a lid that I tried to scale up and the threads just fail. I wonder if I can try some overgang magic on it. 🤔

Linux is GPL v2 and would basically be impossible to relicense.