OP was asking how to switch between 512 byte sectors and 4096 byte sectors. A low level format is how to do that. It’s triggered by the sg_format tool on Linux, or by a tool provided by the drive manufacturer.

Low level formating is how the data tracks are layed out on the disk platters, it’s what the drive firmware sees. hdparm and sg_format instruct the disk to rearrange those tracks. High-level formatting is what the OS sees when you run mkfs. It creates a new file system or replaces an existing one.

Use sg_format to run a low level format on the disk. 512E vs 4kN isn’t going to change much in a homelab environment. If you create a filesystem with 4k clusters, Linux will send 4k wrudte blocks to the disk. The firmware on the disk will write that out into 8 logical disk sectors, usually in a single 4k physical sector. I use my storage mainly for media and there’s no performance difference between my 512E disks and my 4nN disks. I simply don’t have an intense and sensitive enough environment to show the performance gain. I’d say leave the low level formating alone and just write a filesystem on top of it with 4k blocks.

Greylog is a syslog aggregator that might do what you’re looking for.

It would for all the financial industry that refuses to move to a real 2 factor system.

I don’t remember what I was downloading the other day, but I ended up on SourceForge. I forgot that existed too. Don’t visit without an ad blocker though.

This already been solved by public key cryptography? Sign the video with your private key, and publish the public key. Anyone can prove that the video is valid. To prove that the public key is valid, anyone can encrypt a message with it and asked for verification.

The exception here would be ESP32 devices. These have been some of the most reliable devices in my home and the most versatile, no Internet access required. Zigbee works well, but runs in the same frequency space as wifi and Bluetooth. Matter and thread are the new hotness and run in that space too. They all work well together, but something to consider. Z Wave is in a separate frequency space, but is a less open protocol. I have at least a few of all of these and they all play nice. Consider your priorities and choose what’s best for your application.

Can’t get to court if they murder you in the street

I was looking for the text to post it. That was the first thing I thought of too.

:waves hand: We’ve always been at war with Eurasia

The block rewards were meant to incentivize mining until fees took over as the primary source of income. As block rewards drop, mining fees are expected to rise to fill in. Fees are already larger than block rewards, and mining is still going strong. The upward pressure from declining block rewards is countered by downward pressure from users wanting to pay the lowest fee possible. Competition for the fees stops miners from colluding to keep them artificially high.

Agreed.Also, Windows and OSX, unless you want to have to call your nephew who’s Good With Computers™ every couple of weeks. If you’re just using a browser for everything and never messing around like a good majority of people, Linux is just as good as either of those. Linux has gotten to the point where it’s Grandma proof if you stick to a distribution that prioritizes stability. If you choose a distro that prioritizes bleeding edge software versions, you may come across more bugs and breaking changes.Then you’ll need the troubleshooting skills mentioned here. Most of us are here to learn and mess around; the troubleshooting skills grow from that mindset.

I agree with your lack of affection for cloud services, but I think your view might be a little skewed here. Does a senior mechanic need to understand the physics of piston design to be a great mechanic, or just gather years of experience fixing problems with the whole system that makes up the car?

I’m a Senior Systems engineer. I know very little about kernel programming or OS design, but i know how the packages and applications work together and where problems might arise in how they interact. Software Engineers might not know how or don’t want to spend time to set up the infrastructure to host their applications, so they rely on me to do it for them, or outsource my job to someone else’s computer.

I feel like you’re wrong here. Moses and Joshua were pretty big into the whole genocide thing. Deuteronomy 20:16 for example is pretty clear about that, among many other examples.

Except for the weapons we sold them, the intel reports we provided, etc, etc.

Before he was sworn in even. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-promises-to-settle-war-in-ukraine-if-elected

I’ve had way too many conversations with people that simply can’t comprehend how that works. “But then we’d have to do everything so much earlier, it would be dark all the time.” I try to explain that we’d still do everything at the same time of day, just call it something different, but they just can’t wrap their minds around that.

Same as it ever is. Their Russian handlers and their mouth breathing, Nazi loving supporters.

You might even say he’s extra manly; so manly he wants to spend all his time with men and as little time as possible with women.