Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Only available when logged in.
mastodon.online is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A newer server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit

Administered by:

Server stats:

9K
active users

mastodon.online: AboutStatusProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.5.0-nightly.2025-07-28

#disk

1 post1 participant0 posts today
Replied in thread
Vivekanandan KS :nixos:

@Em0nM4stodon
My #NixOS #setup. Even when I #ported it once to #another #machine, I #forgot to add the #user #password. So I kind of went into a #ghost user #session. All i did is #reboot and chose previous #generation corrected my #config and that's all. No need for #backup, #rescue #disk etc. I corrected my configs, now it's truly portable. All my setup is #rock #solid #stable and never #broke it though I use a lot of #unstable #packages. #Nix and #NixOS are just 🔥 ❤️

Replied in thread
*
C.

@ifixcoinops

Indeed.

Back In The Day, I used to sell and install hard drives in computers. The boss had gotten a deal on some slightly sketchy previous-generation disks - ancient Seagate (IIRC) 20MB drives (MFM interface! State of the art at the time was 60MB RLL disks, by Toshiba I think). Those felt spacious in an age of 808[68] computers.

I didn't get my first hard disk until my second Amiga, an A3000. I paid $1,800 for a 540MB drive. In terms of minimum wage at the time, that was about ten weeks of full-time work, before deductions.

My point? I'm with you. It boggles my mind that so many people still trust their data to "the cloud", which as you say is just "someone else's computer", even with the constant stories of accounts suddenly closed without recourse, credentials lost, cloud providers deleting files, and on and on. Storage is dirt cheap these days. At least keep a copy of everything - and I mean everything - on storage media that you own and physically possess.

There's a saying that there are two kinds of computing people: those who have experienced a data-loss incident, and those that will experience a data-loss incident.

#OldManYellsAtCloud#storage#disk
Hacker News

Save your disk, write files directly into RAM with /dev/shm

hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-si

#HackerNews #Save #your #disk #write #files #directly #into #RAM #with #/dev/shm #RAMdisk #DiskSpace #Optimization #TechTips

hiandrewquinn.github.io · Save your disk, write files directly into RAM with /dev/shmGiven my interest in extending the life of my SD cards and hard drives as much as possible, I’m surprised I haven’t come across /dev/shm before. In a word it’s a world-accessible RAM scratchpad, which seems baked right into POSIX, so that virtually every ~Unix~ EDIT: Linux system already has it mounted as a tmpfs by default: 1 2 ❯ mount | grep '/dev/shm' tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,inode64) Today’s lucky 10,000, indeed.
Leniwcowaty :linuxmintnew:

As it turns out - you CAN have too fast #disk speeds!

BeamNG Drive added new scenarios, one of which is packed full with AI cars and props. When I try to launch it however, it freezes and crashes my PC due to the game consuming all of 32 GB of RAM when loading.

As it turns out - since I have 2x NVMe 4.0 drives in RAID 0 (14 GB/s seq read) the games is unable to process all of this fast enough, so the drives load data faster than the game can dump them from RAM.

Hilarious 😂

#game#linux#ram
*
Wintermute_BBS

I've successfully built the recent version of #VolksForth for the #Commodore64 and have created a #d64 #disk #image which also contains all relevant sources as text files (in SEQ format) so they can be loaded and compiled using the new INCLUDE word because VolksForth 3.9.x supports text files and clasic blk storage.

I've also included #vi65 which is a clone of the #vi editor for the C64 (and other #Commodore and #Atari #8bit machines). It comes in versions with 40, 53, 64 and 80 column support. I have provided all of them but recommend the 64 column version for various reasons.

(I'll upload the final image to csdb.dk once I'm happy with it)

#RetroCoding
#Forth

Luke Dorny

It occurs to me that computer discs and audio discs were named in a certain way, but I’m only guessing.

Compact Disc with a C because you could see the round part.

Minidisc with a C

Floppy Disk was square so with a K.

Hard Disk was squarish so with a K

Does anyone know this silly info?
#blog #media #format #disc #disk

st1nger :unverified: 🏴‍☠️ :linux: :freebsd:

#macOS #Tahoe brings a new #disk #image format

Disk images have been valuable tools marred by poor performance. In the wrong circumstances, an encrypted sparse image (#UDSP) stored on the blazingly fast internal #SSD of an #Apple silicon #Mac may write files no faster than 100 MB/s, typical for a cheap hard drive. One of the important new features introduced in macOS 26 Tahoe is a new disk image format that can achieve near-native speeds: #ASIF

developer.apple.com/documentat

Apple Developer DocumentationVZDiskImageStorageDeviceAttachment | Apple Developer DocumentationA device that stores content in a disk image.
EshaHaber

Ortalık daha da karışacak! Grev sonrası toplu işten çıkarma kararı: İzmir’de belediye ile Devrimci İşçi Sendikaları Konfederasyonu (DİSK) arasında yaşanan grev krizi sona erse de gerilim bitmiyor. DİSK ile anlaşmaya varılan sözleşmenin bütçeye büyük yük getirdiğini belirten CHP'li İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi 800 işçiyi işten çıkarmaya hazırlandığı öğrenildi.

İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi, Türkiye… eshahaber.com.tr/haber/ortalik EshaHaber.com.tr #İzmir #grev #işçi #topluçıkarmalar #DİSK

#toplucikarmalar
Daniel Fischer

Ice sublimation in the dynamic HD 100453 disk reveals a rich reservoir of inherited complex organics: arxiv.org/abs/2504.14023 -> Key Building Block for Life Discovered in Planet-Forming #Disk: cfa.harvard.edu/news/key-build - CfA astronomers have helped discover rare types of methanol, a building block required for life as we know it to form.

arXiv logo
arXiv.orgIce sublimation in the dynamic HD 100453 disk reveals a rich reservoir of inherited complex organicsProtoplanetary disks around luminous young A-type stars are prime observational laboratories to determine the abundances of complex organic molecules (COMs) present during planet formation. In contrast to their lower stellar mass counterparts, these warmer disks contain the sublimation fronts of complex molecules such as CH3OH on spatial scales accessible with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). We present ALMA observations of the Herbig Ae disk HD 100453 that uncover a rich reservoir of COMs sublimating from the dust cavity edge. In addition to CH3OH, we detect 13CH3OH for the first time in a Class II disk, revealing a factor of three enhancement of 13C in the disk large organics. A tentative detection of CH2DOH is also reported, resulting in a D/H of 1-2%, which is consistent with the expected deuterium enhancement from the low temperature CH3OH formation in molecular clouds and with the deuteration of CH3OH measured in comets. The detection of methyl-formate (CH3OCHO), at only a few percent level of CH3OH is an order of magnitude lower compared to claims towards other organic-rich Herbig Ae disks but is more in line with organic abundance patterns towards the earlier stages of star formation. Together these data provide multiple lines of evidence that disks, and therefore the planet and comet-forming materials, contain inherited interstellar ices and perhaps the strongest evidence to date that much of the interstellar organic ice composition survives the early stages of planet formation.
TrendingLive feeds
About