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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • It’s actually potato starch.

    Sawdust isn’t just cellulose. Wood is a matrix of cellulose fibers bound together by a tougher compound called lignin. While lignin isn’t particularly toxic, you wouldn’t want to eat it.

    Fun fact, a lot of the process of making paper is for removing the lignin, only the cellulose is useful for making paper. And grasses like bamboo have a higher ratio of cellulose to lignin, so it’s better for making paper







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    What gets me are the people that insist that humans can’t be exceptional and be the first civilization in the galaxy because we’re really dumb… which is it’s own exceptionalism.

    If you really thing humans are ‘meh’, the solution to the Fermi Paradox that fits best is that we’re lucky and among the first civilizations. Especially when you consider that the universe hasn’t been hospitable to life until very recently







  • Just keep in mind that the rebuild time for RAID 6 grows with drive size. A 6TB drive takes 1.4 days to rebuild, an 8TB drive takes 1.8 days, and a 10TB drive takes 2.3 days. So when a drive fails you might have a lot of downtime.

    Here’s the calculator I used in case anyone asks or has a more accurate option to recommend: https://cal67.calculator.city/raid-rebuild-time-calculator.html

    Also, apparently this is a best case scenario. If you’re still having the server run you could see rebuild times up to 10x this.

    That being said, it you stagger your drive life (aka add or prematurely replace 1 drive per year) you can further minimize risk of 2-3 drives going down all at the same time, so a yearly rebuild in the background shouldn’t be too bad


  • You might want to try a service based on XMPP instead of Matrix due to how Matrix caches all the chats its users are in. If you want to go the XMPP route, Movim is the most similar to Discord.

    For streaming, I’ve heard of Owncast as a FOSS alternative. I don’t stream nor do I watch them, so please don’t consider this more than pointing out what’s available