Larry Finger, your work has made a significant positive impact on my life and I’m sure many others. Thank you.

Now can you work on a driver to allow communication between the living and the dead?

Nate is amazing, he and some of his guests are exactly who I learned this from.

To some degree, fission also, though it has a few other problems like safety and security concerns around nuclear materials, locations of fuels and whether they are in friendly nations, other things the fuels can be used for and all the politics that goes with that, etc.

But we need more than just energy. At some point, regardless of our energy, we are going to destroy Earth’s ecosystems using up other resources, using this energy to mine unsustainably, etc. More energy just means we kill ourselves faster. We should not be looking for more or cleaner energy with which to kill ourselves with, we should be looking to continuity of our species and that requires living sustainably within the bounds of our environment.

I never understand this line of thought. The amounts of energy we use is never ever going to go down. It just isn’t.

If we don’t develop practical nuclear fusion before our fossil inheritance effectively runs out we sure will. It will also go down following ecological collapse caused by using all that energy. Infinite energy doesn’t make up for a collapsed ecosystem.

I care, and so do many others, it happens to some with empathy when they grow out of their preteen years.

Because if I do, then that proves Gnome is terrible and all the devs should drive off a cliff?

See, this is a good comment. You like KDE more, awesome! Enjoy! Your attitude makes me want to try it again.

If we lost the open source community will have gained.

I find some software annoying too but I’m not 12 so I don’t feel the need to shit on people volunteering their time to make software for people.

Gnome devs seem to just be red hat employees who don’t actually care about making a good DE

But Gnome is a great DE, I’ve used it as a daily driver for personal and at work for many years. I can’t say I have any major complaints. What’s so terrible about Gnome?

I don’t care what people like, I don’t like people shitting on open source projects and dividing the community.

I don’t see Gnome fans brigading KDE threads and circlejerking about KDE being awful and the devs being cunts.

I’m a Gnome user for like 20 years, I don’t prefer KDE but glad it’s there. I never have but would be happy to support KDE and understand any devs being cunts on occasion, I’m sure it’s stressful. I’m glad they are there so I don’t have to use proprietary software.

People shitting on Gnome sound like kids bitching that the free pizza shop doesn’t offer your favorite hamburger.

Also, all this sudden Gnome hate all over Lemmy is trendy as fuck, being trendy used to mean you were a loser with no original style, I guess the capitalists turned it into “viral” and made it cool.

You can use the parted module for partitioning

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/parted_module.html#ansible-collections-community-general-parted-module

Format with BTRFS or many others

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/filesystem_module.html#ansible-collections-community-general-filesystem-module

These might come in handy:

• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/btrfs_info_module.html#ansible-collections-community-general-btrfs-info-module
• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/btrfs_subvolume_module.html#ansible-collections-community-general-btrfs-subvolume-module

For ZFS, I’m not familiar but I found

• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/zpool_facts_module.html#ansible-collections-community-general-zpool-facts-module

• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/zfs_module.html#ansible-collections-community-general-zfs-module

• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/zfs_facts_module.html#ansible-collections-community-general-zfs-facts-module

Here’s the index of all modules: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/index_module.html

NBD (Network Block Device), it’s like a remote hard drive.

Bcachefs sounds awesome

Ya, this isn’t an easy problem to solve. I have some of the same issues.

If you want to try again or keep trying with the shared directory model try the “sticky bit” along with ACL.

sudo setfacl -d -m g:shared:rwx /path/to/shared_directory

This will make any files/directories you create in the shared dir have the right permissions to share. But it doesn’t apply to files already existing in the directory or files/directories created outside of this directory that are moved into the directory.

If you go the VM route, you might look into QEMU + KVM using .qcow2 files for the VM disk. Then you could just copy the qcow around and start the VM with a command (albeit a complex command). If this sounds interestiing, let me know and I can provide help and examples of how I do it or explanations.

Wow I’d never heard of anything like that before, that’s pretty dang cool.

If you’re running Linux you could just have different logins to either your main desktop

This is what I’d recommend, use different themes, color schemes, and/or the customer’s logo so they all look very different. This is what I do to separate my business from personal stuff.

I was not aware, thanks for the link!