Oh I see. Yeah DVD drives generally use the same SATA interface as hard drives.

If you mean a 2.5" drive (laptop sized) then yes you can generally do that. 3.5" drives are usually 1" thick and won’t fit in a slim DVD drive slot.

Yeah I’m interested in the topic but am not up for watching an almost 2 hour documentary.

no end in sight

Can it actually go below zero? I’m new at this.

Thanks for the good thoughts and it’s interesting (I guess not that surprisng) to hear that Trump and MAGA are, for now, even worse than the AfD if I understand what you’re saying. I’m pessimistic about local activism here being good for anything at the moment. Changes have to made at the federal level, which for me mostly means kicking out the Democrat establishment. The idea of AOC running against Chuck Schumer in a primary would be an example of that, though I don’t know if she would have a good chance of beating him. I’d say she has no serious chance of being elected president in 2028. Of course I’m open to being surprised.

It buys us time to elect a party capable of making good changes.

That’s a nice thought and obviously you know more about the AfD and German politics than I do, but on the US side I can say that the Democrats have learned absolutely nothing. Even after two terms of G.W. Bush (2000-2008), one of Trump (2016-2020), one lucky escape* (Biden 2020), and Trump now in a 2nd term, the Democrats make the same mistakes that they always have. It’s a safe bet that 2028 in the US won’t be any better.

It would be great to hear what kinds of remedies are under way in Europe to fix the status quo as you describe. If anything like that is happening, it doesn’t make the news over here. I can say that nothing seems to be happening in the US beyond some meaningless posturing.

I just download the mp3 and play it with mplayer. Don’t need no apps.

What does it mean if a democracy bans a party that the voters want to elect? Better to ask what failure of the system made that party popular in the first place. We have a similar situation in the US fwiw.

50GB of flac = maybe 20GB of Vorbis amirite? Is that 450GB of flac in your screen shot? It would fit on a 256gb phone even without an SD card. A 512GB card is quite affordable these days. Just make sure to buy a phone with a slot, and think of it as next level degoogling ;).

Yeah I know there’s lots of music in the world but who wants to listen to all of it on a moment’s notice anyway?

Can’t understand why this is interesting, as phones now have a lot of storage space, even the ones that don’t have SD card slots. Just store the music that interests you directly on the phone.

I haven’t looked in a few years but 20TB is probably plenty. I agree that Wikipedia lost its way once it got all that attention online and all that search traffic. Everyone should have their own copy of Wikipedia. I used to download the daily incremental data dumps but got tired of it. I still have a few TB of them around that I’ve been wanting to merge.

The text is in not-exactly-convenient database dumps (see other commenter’s link) and there are daily diffs (mostly bot noise), but then there are the images and other media, which are way up in the terabytes by now. There are some docs, maybe out of date, about how to run the software yourself. It’s written in PHP and it’s big and complicated.

How much do you expect to pay for the 24 NVMe disks?

It’s possible for a while but there is a whack-a-mole game if you’re doing anything they would care about. So you will have to keep moving it around. VPS forums will have some info.

Are you familiar with git hooks? See

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks

Scroll to the part about server side hooks. The idea is to automatically propagate updates when you receive them. So git-level replication instead of rsync.

I see, fair enough. Replication is never instantaneous, so do you have definite bounds on how much latency you’ll accept? Do you really want independent git servers online? Most HA systems have a primary and a failover, so users only see one server. If you want to use Ceph, in practice all servers would be in the same DC. Is that ok?

I think I’d look in one of the many git books out there to see what they say about replication schemes. This sounds like something that must have been done before.

Why do you want 5 git servers instead of, say, 2? Are you after something more than high availability? Are you trying to run something like GitHub where some repos might have stupendous concurrent read traffic? What about update traffic?

What happens if the servers sometimes get out of sync for 0.5 sec or whatever, as long as each is in a consistent state at all times?

Anyway my first idea isn’t rsync, but rather, use update hooks to replicate pushes to the other servers, so the updates will still look atomic to clients. Alternatively, use a replicated file system under Ceph or the like, so you can quickly migrate failed servers. That’s a standard cloud hosting setup.

What real world workload do you have, that appeared suddenly enough that your devs couldn’t stay in top of it, and you find yourself seeking advice from us relatively clueless dweebs on Lemmy? It’s not a problem most git users deal with. Git is pretty fast and most users are ok with a single server and a backup.

I wonder if you could use HAProxy for that. It’s usually used with web servers. This is a pretty surprising request though, since git is pretty fast. Do you have an actual real world workload that needs such a setup? Otherwise why not just have a normal setup with one server being mirrored, and a failover IP as lots of VPS hosts can supply?

And, can you use round robin DNS instead of a load balancer?

What does this even mean? You want to replicate between git repositories? Can you do that with receive/update hooks on the servers?

Well again, in the linked article, I thought that the concern was with mass migration, not with long-established residents.