Re: [gentoo-user] routine maintenance.

2021-02-18 Thread Alan Grimes
Peter Humphrey wrote: > I assumed the two terms were interchangeable. Is that not so? SATA: based on the IDE legacy over a serial bus, caps out at about 530mb/sec, NVME: connects directly to a PCIe 4x bus, no overhead of any kind, caps out at ~2gb/sec... (legacy HDD:  50mb/sec ideal sequential

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.

2021-02-18 Thread gevisz
чт, 18 февр. 2021 г. в 01:10, Michael : > > On Wednesday, 17 February 2021 21:45:35 GMT gevisz wrote: > > > Most probably, both my SATA disks have connection problems as > > Oli Schmidt suggested from the very beginning, and because they > > both have it, it points to the motherboard that already

[gentoo-user] Re: Moving from Lastpass to Bitwarden

2021-02-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2021-02-18, Neil Bothwick wrote: > That's what I was using, but I now run my own BitWarden server, so I get > the convenience and the security. Ah-ha! And _that's_ what I could use an $11 VPS for!

Re: [gentoo-user] routine maintenance.

2021-02-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 08:14:59PM + schrieb Peter Humphrey: > > Provided the M.2 is using NVME instead of SATA > > I assumed the two terms were interchangeable. Is that not so? M.2 is the physical connector. SATA and NMVE are logical protocols (well, there are also SATA-specific connectors

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from Lastpass to Bitwarden

2021-02-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 10:07:17AM -0600 schrieb Dale: > > Call me Ishmael^wold-fashioned. I don’t trust the Internet with anything > > sensitive. Even if the other party behaves trustworthy (trustwortily?). If > > it’s on someone else’s system, it’s out of my reach. A password database not > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from Lastpass to Bitwarden

2021-02-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 03:04:21PM + schrieb Neil Bothwick: > > So the natural answer for my password needs is keepass (by now the XC > > variant). I sync it between my Linux machines with all other files using > > unison. > > That's what I was using, but I now run my own BitWarden server,

Re: [gentoo-user] routine maintenance.

2021-02-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 18 February 2021 11:12:44 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday, February 18, 2021 12:10:45 PM CET Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday, 18 February 2021 08:20:54 GMT Hund wrote: > > > A SSD is just fine. You're not gaining any performance with a M.2 disk > > > anyway. > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from Lastpass to Bitwarden

2021-02-18 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 06:04:01PM -0600 schrieb Dale: >> Howdy, >> >> Lastpass is forcing people to use only one device type or pay a fee.  >> I've used the free version of Lastpass for years and it works well for >> me. > Call me Ishmael^wold-fashioned. I don’t trust

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from Lastpass to Bitwarden

2021-02-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 10:36:46 -0500, John Covici wrote: > > That's what I was using, but I now run my own BitWarden server, so I > > get the convenience and the security. > > If I were to run my own bitwarden server, which seems not to be in > the tree, is there a way I can use windows, mac

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from Lastpass to Bitwarden

2021-02-18 Thread John Covici
On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 10:04:21 -0500, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 15:22:52 +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > Call me Ishmael^wold-fashioned. I don’t trust the Internet with anything > > sensitive. Even if the other party behaves trustworthy (trustwortily?). > > If it’s on

Re: [gentoo-user] routine maintenance.

2021-02-18 Thread John Covici
On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 08:12:02 -0500, Michael wrote: > > [1 ] > On Thursday, 18 February 2021 06:54:29 GMT Alan Grimes wrote: > > > The other discovery was that my /home drive is a 3.0 tb Toshiba unit > > from 2014... man time flies!!! =P This means that the thing should > > probably be replaced

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from Lastpass to Bitwarden

2021-02-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 15:22:52 +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Call me Ishmael^wold-fashioned. I don’t trust the Internet with anything > sensitive. Even if the other party behaves trustworthy (trustwortily?). > If it’s on someone else’s system, it’s out of my reach. A password > database not

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from Lastpass to Bitwarden

2021-02-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 06:04:01PM -0600 schrieb Dale: > Howdy, > > Lastpass is forcing people to use only one device type or pay a fee.  > I've used the free version of Lastpass for years and it works well for > me. Call me Ishmael^wold-fashioned. I don’t trust the Internet with anything

Re: [gentoo-user] routine maintenance.

2021-02-18 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 18 February 2021 06:54:29 GMT Alan Grimes wrote: > The other discovery was that my /home drive is a 3.0 tb Toshiba unit > from 2014... man time flies!!! =P This means that the thing should > probably be replaced due to being old as hell... I've got disks spinning around for more

Re: [gentoo-user] routine maintenance.

2021-02-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, February 18, 2021 12:10:45 PM CET Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 18 February 2021 08:20:54 GMT Hund wrote: > > A SSD is just fine. You're not gaining any performance with a M.2 disk > > anyway. > > Sorry, but that just isn't true. The difference is dramatic. I speak from >

Re: [gentoo-user] routine maintenance.

2021-02-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 18 February 2021 08:20:54 GMT Hund wrote: > A SSD is just fine. You're not gaining any performance with a M.2 disk > anyway. Sorry, but that just isn't true. The difference is dramatic. I speak from experience. -- Regards, Peter.

[gentoo-user] routine maintenance.

2021-02-18 Thread Alan Grimes
I overhauled my computer today, found two things... My waterblock is clogged again, down to a trickle of flow, not bad enough to be dangerous at idle but I've had to order some fresh O-rings from Germany and will need to rebuild the damn thing again. Some of the nickel plating is scraped off

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from Lastpass to Bitwarden

2021-02-18 Thread Dale
Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Dale, > > On Wednesday, 2021-02-17 23:08:12 -0600, you wrote: > >> ... >>   Still, they are closed source.  If >> their code was open source then it could be that the hack would not have >> happened since someone would have spotted the

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from Lastpass to Bitwarden

2021-02-18 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Dale, On Wednesday, 2021-02-17 23:08:12 -0600, you wrote: > ... >   Still, they are closed source.  If > their code was open source then it could be that the hack would not have > happened since someone would have spotted the hole the hackers used.  I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] routine maintenance.

2021-02-18 Thread antlists
On 18/02/2021 08:20, Hund wrote: Any thoughts about running a drive this old, and what I should be looking at as a replacement? No matter how old or new your disk is, keep your backups current and in working shape. If it's old, I would just keep an extra eye on the S.M.A.R.T. status and

Re: [gentoo-user] routine maintenance.

2021-02-18 Thread Hund
>My waterblock is clogged again, down to a trickle of flow, not bad >enough to be dangerous at idle but I've had to order some fresh O-rings >from Germany and will need to rebuild the damn thing again. Unless you're a hardcore overclocker, there's really no reason to bother with it, especially