BTRFS should be stable in the case of power loss. That is to say, it ought to recover to a valid state. I believe the only unstable modes are RAID 5/6.

I’d recommend BTRFS in RAID1 mode over mdadm RAID1 + ext4. You get checksumming and scrubs to detect drive failures and data corruptions. You also have snapshotting, in case you’re prone to the occasional fat-fingered rm -rf.

For backup, maybe a blu-ray drive? I think you would want something that can withstand the salty environment, and maybe resist water. Thing is, even with BDXL discs, you only get a capacity of 100GiB each, so that’s a lot of disks.

What about an offsite backup? Your media library could live ashore (in a server at a friend’s house). You issue commands from your boat to download media, and then sync those files to your boat when it’s done. If you really need to recover from the backup, have your friend clone a disk and mail it to you.

Do you even need a backup? Would data redundancy be enough? Sure if your boat catches fire and sinks, your movies are gone, but that’s probably the least of your problems. If you just want to make sure that the salt and water doesn’t destroy your data, how about:

1. A multi-disk filesystem which can tolerate at least 1 failure
2. Regular utilities scanning for failure. BTRFS scrubs, for example.
3. Backup fresh disks kept in a salt and water resistant container (original sealed packaging), to swap any failing disk, and replicate data from any good drives remaining.
4. Documentation/practice to perform the aforementioned disk replacement, so you’re not googling manpages at sea.

This would probably be cheapest and have the least complexity.

And the best tutorials are a blurry notepad window while this song plays

A better ending than last time, when Fuzzy-Select Girl tried to stop a gang of superdrug-dealers with an improperly calibrated threshold… Ended up deleting half the neighborhood.

My area is pretty good, but I went to a hamfest a few towns over and heard some awful stuff being spoken like the most casual thing in the world.

On mastodon, I see people organizing a few leftist nets out there. Might be worth checking for d-star or fusion nets that would let you dial in over internet.

I wouldn’t trust anything like that to the open internet. It would be better to access the system over a VPN when you’re outside the network.

Barony is fun as hell. Engine is FOSS, but the default game assets require purchase.

You’ve laid out one potential development cycle: FOSS from the get-go, and open collaboration welcome.

However, that’s not the only way that a FOSS game might be developed. The code could be freely licensed, but the upstream developers refuse to accept outside patches. In that case, there’s one “original” and then if you don’t like it, build your fork.

Alternatively, a game could be developed entirely in-house under proprietary licenses, and then only made FOSS upon commercial release. Contributor patches could improve the project, but conception of the game would be entirely the domain of its original developers.

By default, the minimum step size between freqs was too big for me to program my local repeater. Had to lower it in the settings before it was accessible.

Burning bridges, lost forevermore

The man is a monster. I don’t know how many of my build jobs have been murdered by this fiend.

How about writing a script to automate the deletion, thus minimizing the chance of human error being a factor? It could include checks like “Is this a folder with .git contents? Am I being invoked from /home/username/my_dev_workspace?”

In a real aviation design scenario, they want to minimize the bullshit tasks that take up cognitive load on a pilot so they can focus on actually flying. Your ejector seat example would probably be replaced with an automatic ejection system that’s managed by the flight computer.

I use a fuckload of soap and hope it keeps the grease from re-forming. Is that still bad?

If you haven’t done so already, you can make transactions private by default.

This page walks through the math to derive a Canadian mortgage cost:

https://www.mikesukmanowsky.com/blog/a-guide-to-canadian-mortgage-calculations

Apparently in Canada, mortgage interest may compound semi-annually, which might explain the difference.

Using the math on that page, I derived a monthly interest rate of 0.0041239 on your example loan. When multiplied by the principal of $100,000 I got a first-month interest fee of $412.39

You could delete it from lutris. I think that would nuke the prefix for FO3, thus allowing you to install freshly.

My plan was to use asymmetric encryption where the secret key is again encrypted using something like AES

I think your terminology is off. AES is an example of symmetric encryption: Decryption requires the same key as encryption.

An example of asymmetric encryption would be public-key cryptography: You encrypt a message with the public key, but only a private key can decrypt the result.

AES should be fine for encrypting large blocks of data.

I believe that for systems like TLS, asymmetric encryption is only used briefly to negotiate a symmetric key between client and server.

I had a fucking chemistry teacher who told the class that microwaved water was different (and linked to cancer)

Given that The Prisoner is one of my favorite shows, I immediately read it wrong so that the sign made complete sense.

I think multiple comments would reduce clarity. It is rare for any signle point in an opinion to stand on its own as an atomic unit. A reader would need to jump through a thread to follow your line of reasoning in its entirety.

Single points of an argument may be valid or true on their own, but it is the mutual reinforcement of several points in agreement with each other that will educate or convince someone.