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  • My biggest problem is security updates.

    The “x years of upgrades” model is okay when it’s for an app, where you can just keep using it with the old feature set and no harm is done.

    But Unraid isn’t an app, it’s a whole operating system.

    With this new licensing model, over time we will see many people sticking with old versions because they dont want to pay to renew - and then what happens when critical security vulnerabilities are found?

    The question was already asked on the Unraid forum thread, and the answer from them on whether they would provide security updates for non-latest versions was basically “we don’t know” - due to how much effort they would need to spend to individually fix all those old versions, and the team size it would require.

    It’s going to be a nightmare.

    Any user who cares about good security practice is effectively going to be forced to pay to renew, because the alternative will be to leave yourself potentially vulnerable.




  • The clue with Unraid is in the name. The goal was all about having a fileserver with many of the benefits of RAID, but without actually using RAID.

    For this purpose, Fuse is a virtual filesystem which brings together files from multiple physical disks into a single view.

    Each disk in an Unraid system just uses a normal single-disk filesystem on the disk itself, and Unraid distributes new files to whichever disk has space, yet to the user they are presented as a single volume (you can also see raw disk contents and manually move data between disks if you want to - the fused view and raw views are just different mounts in the filesystem)

    This is how Unraid allows for easily adding new drives of any size without a rebuild, but still allows for failure of a single disk by having a parity disk - as long as the parity is at least as large as the biggest data disk.

    Unraid have also now added ZFS zpool capability and as a user you have the choice over which sort of array you want - Unraid or ZFS.

    Unraid is absolutely not targeted at enterprise where a full RAID makes more sense. It’s targeted at home-lab type users, where the ease of operation and ability to expand over time are selling points.


  • Been using unraid for a couple of years now also, and really enjoying it.

    Previously I was using ESXi and OMV, but I like how complete Unraid feels as a solution in itself.

    I like how Unraid has integrated support for spinning up VMs and docker containers, with UI integration for those things.

    I also like how Unraid’s fuse filesystem lets me build an array from disks of mismatched capacities, and arbitrarily expand it. I’m running two servers so I can mirror data for backup, and it was much more cost effective that I could keep some of the disks I already had rather than buy all-new.




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    The quiet but ever-present whisper of “this place is not for you, you are not welcome here”

    A lot of that can be helped by design, but a lot is purely cultural, and driven by perceptions of what others think - or what we believe they think. In Japan for example I always saw loads of people eating out alone in restaurants, it’s just a normal thing to do. But in the west less so. Like the societal perception of the whole point of eating out is to do it with someone. Not just because you want some restaurant food.

    So a lot can be overcome just by learning to not give a fuck.

    It does give a peek into how other groups must feel though, like those with physical disabilities, as if the world is hostile by design. Or even worse, just hostile by omission because nobody remembered to think about you. And it doesn’t need to be. But it is.


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    It’s a good sermon lol.

    On my original point about “stages”, the part that really got me thinking was that the person who designed that questionnaire probably didn’t even give it a second glance. They just wrote it, and it felt fine, because to them it seemed like a normal way of thinking.

    Same to your point about there being few events that aren’t targetted at couples and families. When people are in a heteronormtive couple or a family, then they won’t even notice how the whole world seems to be set up in a way that is tailored just for them. It’s perfect for their needs, so why would they see anything deficient with it?


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    I remember a form one time that asked me “what stage of life are you in”

    Options being like Single, Married, Married with Children, etc

    The part that made me blink wasn’t so much the options but the use of the word “stage” , as if these things are mandatory steps in life, and by being unmarried I’m somehow still on the starting line.

    Incredibly prescriptive of them.


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    This is how it always is with tinkerers. We enjoy setting stuff up and tweaking to perfection more than actually ‘using’ it.

    We also spend days writing scripts and programs that will save only hours at best in the span of our entire lifetimes, and feel happy doing it.

    And we’re also the same people who spend about 20 hours messing around with getting the perfect combination of mods on Skyrim without even ‘playing’ a single real minute of the game.



  • Normal manufacturing efficiencies and cost reduction is surely the biggest reason they are cheaper now but it’s absolutely a factor.

    So many companies in so many industries are trying to move from being product companies (make money selling a thing) to being service companies (make money from subscriptions, user data and other monetisation) and I’m doing my damnedest to keep away from any of it.