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I think it had its uses in the past, specifically if it had the memory backup to prevent full array rebuilds and cached data loss on power failure.

Also at the height of raid controller use (I would say 90s and 2000s) there probably was some compute savings by shifting the work to a dedicated controller.

In modern day, completely agree.

I’m sure I’ve seen paid software that will detect and read data from several popular hardware controllers. Maybe there’s something free that can do the same.

For the future, I’d say that with modern copy on write filesystems, so long as you don’t mind the long rebuild on power failures, software raid is fine for most people.

I found this, which seems to be someone trying to do something similar with a drive array built with an Intel raid controller

https://blog.bramp.net/post/2021/09/12/recovering-a-raid-5-intel-storage-matrix-on-linux-without-the-hardware/

Note, they are using drive images, you should be too.

The OP made clear it was a controller failure or entire system (I read hardware here) failure. Which does complicate things somewhat.

I would very much agree here. I’ve (admittedly mostly server side) been using linux for around 30 years now. But I’m still dual booting on my desktop. There’s just a few things that will still only work in Linux, and also if I break things I can go to windows if I need to do something “right now”

Dual boot gives you the option of, if you have the time trying to make something work in linux. But, if you don’t have the time, just boot to windows and do it.

How I do things, is I have drives that are shared between both OS (I use btrfs since there is a windows driver and, so far (around 3 years) I’ve had no corruption problems. But you can share ntfs too and a boot drive for both. But, it’s not a requirement.

Also yes, it is quite easy to break a linux install. It’s not really because Linux is bad. It’s just because you have so much choice in which drivers to use, which desktop environment (and even the components that make it up) that it’s easy to accidentally select some combination that doesn’t work and you end up with only a console to fix things from.

I like that the OP is choosing Mint. I’ve not used Mint, but from all I’ve seen it looks a real good option for someone starting into Linux from no experience.

/mnt/shared/Development or E:\Development depending on which operating system is running.

Not in home mainly because I use the same directory in windows and Linux.

Yeah, but that’s just because “nobody wants to work”

I recently made a new linux install (to replace my constantly breaking, likely due to my own doing Manjaro install). I went with Cinnamon initially, but in order to try out Wayland, I moved to KDE plasma.

I’m on NVidia, with two different resolution screens. Which causes occasional problems. But overall it’s fine.

Well it seems it was more to do with sanctions, if the open letter from one of the chopped developers is to be believed. In which case, I think the right thing is to move the names to contributors (they did still contribute), remove them from maintainers (some maintainers are actually paid by the foundation, I mean not a lot, but some are paid).

I still find it all a little odd. But likely there was a bit of a prod from somewhere higher as to how sanctions should be followed.

Therefore there is either missing information (external pressure to take this action) or this is simply an action based on personal judgement.

Looking at the other post about NVidia drivers, I am starting to wonder if western governments (or perhaps just the US) are going after large orgs and suggesting how current sanctions should be interpreted. In which case, not sure I can then blame the Linux foundation, since you know, you don’t need government heavy breathing down your neck.

Yeah, along with this I am suspecting there’s been a “suggested interpretation” from western governments to large orgs.

And I’ll say the same here as I did above. If it was for security, their code is tainted too. It’s an arbitrary reaction that is not complete as a solution to anything.

If that were true, surely they’d not trust ANY of their existing work, or at least any done since the Special War Operation. Wouldn’t that make sense?

They’ve left the code, and removed the people arbitrarily. Seems a bit off to me.

You know. I don’t like what the Russian leadership and military are doing. I feel like ultimately we’re in the cold war era. But you know, at the height of the cold war, radio operators around the world still worked Russian stations.

Yes, there was a very clear policy, neither side talked about ANYTHING beyond their signal report and working conditions (information about radio, power output and aerial basically). At the height of the actual cold war, the individuals were not cancelled like this.

Sanction the leadership, sanction the money, and sanction the military. But the normal people that are subject to the propaganda? I don’t understand the benefit in doing this. I also don’t see how the sanctions effect an open source project…

Seems a bit weird. Maybe there’s information we’re not privy to, but on the face of it, just based on what we’re seeing. Seems like a very very odd move.

Definitely. And it’s actually “We installed a camera in your bedroom, but it’s hidden, you cannot remove it. It’s enabled but don’t worry it’s not recording”.

I just ideally would like Microsoft to say something. Because at the moment it’s super weird to enable it on PCs that it’s not meant to run on.

There’s been a lot of youtube videos made on the tech side of it. But, like I say they all make a fair point. It’s installed, enabled and hidden. But none of them have shown any evidence of it actually collecting data yet.

This arrived in the 24H2 windows update I think it was about a week ago.

To be clear, I installed a new Linux system totally separate to this and just coincidental, and there’s still some things I need to use Windows for, so it’s not going anywhere soon. But for sure this whole thing is one more reason to be suspicious of Microsoft.

As I said, I am not sure there’s any evidence showing it’s actually doing anything yet. None I’ve seen at least.

But, I think there’s some very suspicious points that stand out to me.

• Installed by default
• Enabled by default
• Hidden from the user unless they specify the feature by name from command line (listing from command line doesn’t include it either). And I wonder if being searchable by name was an accident that will be patched out next time.

If this wasn’t going to be anything to do with the recall functionality that has been previously described, then I feel fairly sure they would have posted an announcement about it by now. Silence in general is a bad thing for this kind of thing in my experience.

But, since it’s not doing anything now I’m more in a “wait and see” stance personally.

I’ve found it very interesting. So far as I can tell it’s installed and enabled (even on non co-pilot PCs). However I have yet to see or hear of anyone that has found evidence that it is actually running and doing its job (capturing screenshots and creating the database for the AI model).

To me, the fact it’s installed and enabled and they’ve not stood up by now and said “Ooops our bad, it was only meant to be on copilot PCs and we should have added it to the features menu so you can turn it off” just suggests that, the stuff is there and at some point they will flip a switch on ALL PCs to enable it.

It’s quite lucky that a week or so ago when I got some new SSDs, I put aside 2TB for a linux boot to replace my old broken previous linux dual boot. Not booted into windows in over a week.

This is exactly what I expected AI to do. Basically if you’re a junior developer your work is likely to be checked by a senior.

Instead they will just have seniors use AI and then check that work instead.

It’s very shortsighted because you only become a senior developer after being a junior and it will turn off new people to the industry.

But, that doesn’t matter to pretty much any large business. They never have a long term strategy (and do not let them have you believe otherwise). They have month, quarter and year only and the importance is in that order except at quarter and year end.

They will destroy their own industry for short term gains and then blame the rest of us when things turn sour.

Not lemmy (unless it does support it now?). But from a (k/m)bin instance you can access the mastadon account @elonjet which does the same as the original twitter elonjet.

I’ve never had AI create working code anyway.

But it will generally point me in the right direction. It’s useful for:

1. Helping get your train of thought back in the right direction
2. Automating what would be a lot of boilerplate/repetitive coding. Just beware you will still need to check it over.

You need to be skilled to spot the mistakes it will definitely make.