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  • This is madness, but since this is a hobby project and not a production server, there is a way:

    • Shrink the filesystems on the existing disks to free up as much space as possible, and shrink their partitions.
    • Add a new partition to each of the three disks, and make a RAID5 volume from those partitions.
    • Move as many files as possible to the new RAID5 volume to free up space in the old filesystems.
    • Shrink the old filesystems/partitions again.
    • Expand each RAID component partition one at a time by removing it from the array, resizing it into the empty space, and re-adding it to the array, giving plenty of time for the array to rebuild.
    • Move files, shrink the old partitions, and expand the new array partitions as many times as needed until all the files are moved.

    This could take several days to accomplish, because of the RAID5 rebuild times. The less free space, the more iterations and the longer it will take.



  • I don’t know about theory, but the big practical advantage to ZigBee is that it works.

    Sorry, that’s a shitty thing to say. I’m salty because the only time I tried X10 was 25 years ago, and the experience was less than great. Unreliable switching, spurious commands, slow performance, etc. Sending signals over the power wires sounds great in theory, but in practice there are all sorts of pitfalls, like resistive versus inductive loads, bridging circuits to different legs of two-phase power, or conflicting commands on the wire.

    ZigBee has just worked for me, since it avoids all of the potential wiring issues. You just plug a device in, put it in pairing mode, and Home Assistant finds it, interrogates its capabilities, and adds it (by name) with the correct entities. No mucking about with addresses, or adding signal paths to the house wiring. As a mesh network, it’s quite robust, since most plugged-in devices act as repeaters.

    The downside of ZigBee, of course, is that it may not work well in WiFi-saturated environments, since it uses the same 2.4GHz frequency band.



  • For troubleshooting, start at the destination and work back. Run a packet trace on the target machine, and other machines on the WiFi network to see if any WoL packet comes through at all. If not, then look at the VM host.

    How does HAOS access the USB network adapter? By pass-thru, so it’s like a USB device connected to the VM, or through a bridge on the VM host? If it’s the latter, a Linux network bridge device is often configured not to pass broadcast packets by the firewall rules. (Things like Docker will enable firewall filtering.) Check that the bridge allows broadcast packets through. If it’s the former, the USB pass-thru, do a packet trace from HAOS to ensure that it’s actually sending the packet, I guess.





  • This question has really got me thinking about the old days! I thought that it was looking into Debian Linux when trying to repurpose some old IBM PS/2 machines at work, because there were rumors of patchsets for the Linux kernel to support the MicroChannel Architecture bus and ESDI drives. But now I remember that it was actually GeekGadgets, a Unix environment for Amiga based around the ixemul.library. That’s where I first read the GPL, and admired its legal Jiu-Jitsu of using copyright laws to ensure freedom.

    I’ve never been a Windows user on my own machines as a result. I just went from Amiga, to FreeBSD, to Ubuntu.



  • It doesn’t have to be a seismic shift. Geocities and Angelfire (still around. BTW) were corporate, they needed to make money, and when the free web hosting somehow failed to make money, the corporate owners shut them down.

    The Fediverse is decentralized. It doesn’t have to get huge, or make a lot of money. It can carry on for as long as it has enough users to carry on. Heck, the biggest BBS that I used back in the day had 23 phone lines. Several hundred regular users, but only 23 could connect at a time. It even survived a few years into the Internet era.

    That is to say that Lemmings don’t have to ‘win’ some sort of imaginary competition by taking all of the users from the other site. People used and enjoyed those bygone systems while they lasted, and we can do the same.