Only when you have to write out to swap. In the case of something like ZFS, it stores data in RAM, looks for it there, then looks on the disk. So freeing up the RAM is effectively instantaneous; you just mark the space as free, then the other process writes into it.

So, as far as I can see, this is basically just the same networked soldier tech that every modern military is using. Canada has had this stuff in the field for a while (mostly with 3RCR, and I think 3PPCLI), with plans to expand to the entire reg force once we work the kinks out. It’s pretty much just a way of giving soldiers a map screen where commanders can draw orders, and also giving them a camera so they can directly feed back visual intel. Helps cut back fog of war.

In the article itself the only hint of AI is the note that these devices will be “AI capable” which is kind of a no shit Sherlock. Literally these systems already use off the shelf smart devices connected up to a hardened comms system. The Canadian one is built on Samsung S22s. Of course its “AI capable”, anything with a CPU is.

My suspicion is that the UK military just really wanted this networked soldier capability (its a good program, that’s why everyone is doing it), and knew that they could get the funding more easily if they snuck the word AI in there because the current UK government has an absolute raging hard on for anything remotely AI related.

The thing is, you can design an autoloader in a way that protects the crew.

The survability of western tanks isn’t just about where the ammo is stored, but how it’s stored. Western tanks, both with and without autoloaders, place all the ammo at the back, either of the turret or the hill respectively. More importantly, the ammo is stored in a heavily armoured compartment, which has blow-out panels on the outside of the vehicle; the ammo detonates the panels collapse, allowing the force of the explosion to spread out from the tank.

The problem with the T90 design (which is really just an updated T72) is that the autoloader is attached to the bottom of the turret basket. This means there’s no possible way to vent the explosion outside, other than by going through the turret, and through the crew along the way.

It’s part of ZFS 2.3.0, so it just depends what version TrueNAS is shipping with.

ZFS seems pretty RAM hungry

This is a common misunderstanding.

Short version; ZFS isn’t RAM hungry, it’s RAM aware. If your system has unused memory lying around, ZFS will use it to improve read performance. But it will give up that memory the moment anything else needs it.

and I don’t believe you can add new drives to an existing volume.

No longer true

Xpipe is fantastic. I have to manage a LOT of SSH connections between work and homelab (well over 200 now) and Xpipe has been a god send.

Guillotine - The Coup

Yeah, I tend to buy vinyl for the artists that I’m really into.

Depends what you define as “Wouldn’t work for me.” Song library has improved a lot, if that’s what you mean.

Yeah, water is infinitely preferable.

It’s honestly made so worse by the fact that the average British mum will read the package directions, go “Oh no, that’s way too much” and proceed to add about a tea spoon of syrup to about a gallon of water, making something that vaguely hints at the concept of flavour, but ends up tasting mostly of dirty bath water.

tidal.com

Lacks a few of Spotify’s features, but the audio quality is great, and it’s cheaper. Plus, fuck Spotify.

Qobuz is also good, apparently.

OK, yeah, that’s actually really helpful. Anyone who plays around with Linux at all, give this a read. Good stuff.

No, the British stuff lasts forever, but it tastes like ass. We call it “squash” and it’s just fruit flavoured sugar syrup. It makes something kind of like flat Fanta.

Hell yeah. It’s like a really good orange freezie, right?

This isn’t the same as Robinson’s orange syrup. It’s literally frozen orange pulp and juice that’s been concentrated down by evaporating off the water. It’s not remotely shelf stable, but what you get is literally the same orange juice you could buy in a box in the store, at a fraction of the cost because you save on shipping weight and packaging. It’s amazing stuff and I wish I’d had access to it back when I lived in the UK.

This is one of the most intensely “America is the only place in the world that matters” statements I have ever read.

Are you even aware that your senile fascist pedophile president has threatened to invade, annex, or economically attack just about every single one of your neighbours and allies?

ICE could be dismantled today, completely and utterly erased, deleted with extreme prejudice, and it would not address a single one of the reasons why the rest of the world hates you.

I get that for you the fascist paramilitary is the most pressing issue, and indeed it may well come to a point where taking on ICE - literally - is a necessary precursor to solving those other problems. You have every right to focus on that problem first and foremost.

But it’s incredibly telling that you think the rest of the world should judge your athletes solely on how they feel about ICE, and not, say, their opinion on your country committing numerous war crimes, or aiding and abetting a genocide, or withdrawing life saving aid programs, or pulling out of climate treaties, or using your economic power to block green shipping laws and corporate minimum tax agreements, or starting a senseless trade war with the entire planet, or trying to annex neighbouring territories, or violating your neighbours sovereignty, or any of the other things that I’m forgetting here because it’s become impossible to even keep track of all the disgusting shit that America has done recently.

At work we use Meshcentral. It requires you to host your own server, but it’s very powerful, and very reliable. We’re managing something like 400 remote systems with it currently. We also use Netbird as a secondary access layer (I prefer it to Tailscale for the simplicity of setting up ACLs, and the really easy deployment).

For most home server usage though, I wouldn’t bother with Meshcentral. It’s a lot of overhead if you’re only managing a couple of systems. If you really need remote desktop (why do your servers even have desktops?) use RustDesk instead.

RustDesk really is fantastic. No shade to any of the other solutions suggested in this thread, but 99% of the time when someone needs remote desktop access, RustDesk is exactly what they need.

It’s “accused” until a court convicts them. If you don’t like that our justice system works that way then you probably have more in common with those separatists than you think.

Right, but you have to make a case for what the people in Alberta did that’s treason. Not what the US did. We all know what the US did.

Simply interacting with a potentially hostile foreign power isn’t treason. If I have a coffee with a guy who works for the Iranian government, I’m not automatically a traitor.

What are the specific, treasonous actions that you’re alleging here?