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What if they ask him to bring watermelon and chicken to the cookout? ;-)

Not really with mdadm raid5. But it sounds like you like to live dangerously. You could always go the BTRFS route. Yeah, I know BTRFS Raid56 “will eat your data”, but you said it’s nothing that important anyways. There are some things to keep in mind when running BTRFS in Raid5, e.g. scrub each disk individually, use Raid1c3 for metadata for example.

But basically, BTRFS is one of the only filesystems that allows you to add disks of any size or number, and you can convert the profile on the fly, while in use. So in this case, you could format the new disk with BTRFS as a single disk. Copy over stuff from one of your other disks, then once that disk is empty, add it as a additional device to your existing BTRFS volume. Then do the same with the last disk. Once that is done, you can run a balance convert to convert the single profile into a raid5 data profile.

That being said, there are quite a few caveats to be aware of. Even though it’s improved a lot, BTRFS’s Raid56 implementation is still not recommended for production use. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/20200627032414.GX10769@hungrycats.org/

Also, I would STRONGLY recommend against connecting disks via USB. USB HD adapters are notorious for causing all kinds of issues when used in any sort of advanced setup, apart from temporary single disk usage.

Stop fingering your mom. 😉 (Sorry, couldn’t resist)

Mailcow allows users to setup their own aliases similar to gmail with a “+” delimiter. E.g. username+randomalias@domain.com.

Perhaps when we stop treating Israel with kid gloves.

“Shot and wounded…”, American cops take some notes!

Banned books? What year is this? FFS.

PC Games.

As a seasoned sysadmin, I approve.

UPS with usb allows you to configure a script to properly shutdown your server when a power outage happens and the UPS battery is about to run out.

I always loved Tekken more, because a good match between skilled players looked like something out of a choreographed kung Fu movie.

At least up to the PS2 era. It was also slower paced so you had to be more strategic. I always thought all the little character story movies were a lot of fun. SF feels very bare bones in comparison. But I stopped paying attention a while ago. MK had a distinguishing gimmick with the fatalities, but the general character design never meshed well with me.

Not surprising when corporations and special interest groups practically run the U.S. Government.

Back when I still had a desktop system with an NVidia GPU, I never had these problems. On my gaming laptop with an onboard intel + nvidia gpu, I also didn’t have these problems. But…I’m very experienced with linux, so most noob problems are not an issue for me. That being said, POP_OS supported GPU switchting out of the box, without having to faff around. YMMV.

(un)fortunately, my thinkpad has a spillproof keyboard.

Big surprise here.

Do you have a NAS at home with enough storage? You could use wireguard to setup a vpn tunnel, then mount your NAS’s storage on your vps via nfs and using cachefilesd. If your upload speed is sufficient, this can work pretty well without too much waiting for a stream to start.

Gravity. The biggest killer of Russians lately.

Gentoo is really great if you want to learn a lot about Linux really fast. Back when I still used it, the documentation was second to none.

Proton works on any Linux distro, it comes with steam. As long as you can install steam, you should be golden.

That’s a trend that needs to die. I blame MacBook airs and ultrabooks for this nonsense.