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tomega2134··on M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review
Is a 5090 still cost efficent when it is (currently) unobtainable? Or when obtainable only at current prices (min. $6500 USD)?
tomega2134··on Canada adds 75,000 new jobs in July, unemployment rate lowest in 2 years
My impression is that they ARE good paying jobs, looking at the industry categories listed as having gains.

"Professional, scientific and technical services" alone is 16.6k.

tomega2134··on Ubuntu's TPM encryption switches to snap kernel that blocks deb kernel packages
It seems it's quite often that Ubuntu reminds me how much I appreciate Mint dropping everything snap.
tomega2134··on How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)
Snapshotting before OS upgrade is something that has saved my system more than once. It's not to be underestimated how much time is saved over having to restore from backup or reinstall.

Plus there is sending/receiving snapshots across systems if you want to.

tomega2134··on Why Vancouver is always a stand-in for San Francisco in movies and TV shows (2021)
The most recognizable building would be the one their office was set in, which is actually the White Rock Museum & Archives building (a former train station) in White Rock, near the pier.
tomega2134··on European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple
Is this EU protocol so weak that it cannot withstand this attack, i.e. is duplicate age certificate use not detected or prevented?
tomega2134··on A 10 year old Xeon is all you need
I wish this were somehow tagged with AI, so I would know that it's not about say, general computing or cost-efficiency (e.g. using an old xeon machine from ebay instead of new, in these cost-conscious times.)

As it is, the title is click-bait for me, as 1) it says I need at least a Xeon somehow and 2) as it doesn't say what I actually need it for.

tomega2134··on Back to FreeBSD: Part 1
ZFS boot+root on Linux is amazing as well. It's kind of sad to see Linux Mint has moved away from supporting this in their installer, but it probably could still be done manually I guess. After upgrade, if something goes wrong? zfs rollback both to a snapshot made just before the upgrade and reboot.

I don't use freebsd full time, only in a VM, but all these things sound positive to me.

tomega2134··on Framework Sponsors CachyOS
It completely blew up for me as well (unbootable) during an update that included the linux-firmware package split from earlier this year. Fortunately this occurred during a testing period in a VM.