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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

You absolutely can. Of course you'll only be able to use as much capacity as the smallest disk. Sometime ago I was running a secondary mirror with one 8TB disk and 3 disks pretending to be the other 8TB disk. They were 4TB, 3TB and a 1TB - trivial with LVM. Worked without a hitch for a few years till I replaced the three gnomes in a trench coat with another 8TB disk. Obviously that's suboptimal but it works fine under certain loads.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (6 children)

When using drives from the same model and batch?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

And what would happen to trades wages if everyone and their mother switches to trades?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

Can't wait.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Any word on extension data syncing?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think a lot of people don't realize what a gaping security hole extensions can be. Back in the 2000s, I'd install almost anything that seemed useful without realizing the amount of data that goes through them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks for all the suggestions and experiences!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

TBH, I have this problem too. I want an algorithm to sift through the firehose. I want to be able to control it though. I'd like to potentially have multiple options. The sorting algorithms in Lemmy are an example for this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I occasionally see auto-playing ad on my Chromecast with Google TV about twice a year so far. Every time I hit Send Feedback immediately and say something harsh about the ads and they disappear shortly after. I'm considering building a LineageOS Android TV machine based on the ODROID-C4. I'm just unsure what level of Widevine I'd get. I'd be okay with 1080p. 720p would be a bit shit. Anyone tried this route?

[–] [email protected] 142 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Yup, it's much easier for content creators and aggregators to broadcast their stuff over the Fediverse. No API fees and restrictions. Just become a node in the network. Then as they make useful content available on the Fediverse, the Fediverse will grow its userbase, returning something to the content creators.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's definitely not too late to heal Google. It would require some shake-up at the top of the company, moving the centre of power from the CFO's office back to someone with a clear long-term vision for how to use Google's extensive resources to deliver value to users.

Why would this happen though? The change the author is describing came from the company's shareholders and their desire for profit. Shareholders who have no connection to the core domains of Google, who vote for directors on the board that further profit extraction, who then maintain executive leadership who implements that. You have to convince those shareholders that they should want Google to focus on something other than profit maximization. But they don't understand you. They can dump Google's stock at a moment's notice. Why care about some long term profit when they can make it now and dump the stock as soon as it stops making it? And then, you can't even talk to them because you're sitting behind the exec layer and the board layer, both of which are shareholder creations. So you have to tightrope your exec team into believing you, then they have to tightrope the board, and then the board has to tightrope the shareholders. The odds are stacked against reversing course. If on the other hand you're not acting alone but you are the head of the union that can shutdown Google at a moment's notice, then not only you can talk to the exec layer, you don't have to tightrope while doing it. Better yet, you can simply broadcast your message and it's gonna hit the board and the shareholders directly. That's why I don't think Google can reverse course without a strong union. I think the incentives are simply not there.

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