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Thanks, I do have backups of important stuff.

I think bcachefs is what I’m looking for, but I’m gonna wait a bit until development calms down a little and keep on the way I am at the moment.


Thanks,

bcachefs could be the answer but I don’t really want my data on a fs I need this week’s kernel to access properly. Maybe I should just hold off for a few months.

I’m not monitoring the drives, I have backups of important stuff…but would be nice to tag more important stuff amongst the mediocre stuff on the off chance both drives don’t fail at the same time.



Redundancy? storage options for a rpi4? filesystems? raid?
I have a pi4 running on an ssd over usb3 with a usb3 dock that has 2x2TB drives for storage. At the moment I have mainly music on one and mainly video on the other, with important stuff on both and elsewhere. Is it sensible to combine 2x2TB hdd's via usb3 dock into a 4TB filesystem/pool/volume/thing......and if so can I have tiered storage so if one drive fails the other will have a mirror of important stuff?
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I’ve been using the ‘Open With’ extension on Firefox to play video through mpv with a click





It seems unreasonable with the hardware, even with nice things.

I run Gentoo, with lots of binaries, on my 2011 iMac just fine but encoding HD video on it feels like abuse.


I don’t have anything that can play 4k h264 aside from my phone.

My Rpi4 plays 4k h265 beautifully, so I like h265. Space efficient is just a bonus.

mpv & ffmpeg have been my go to’s for a decade or so…but mpv on the Rpi4 can’t yet manage 4k 2160p afaik, so Kodi it is at the moment.



Transcoding anything >720p is painful. I run ancient hardware for desktop/laptop >10yrs old apple stuff running linux. I consume media mainly via rpi4 or android. What's a minimum level system capable of trans-coding 4k video to x265 in at the very least real time? Is there a tiny trans-coding device out there somewhere? Would a NUC do? How old or new to churn out 4k x265 Can I avoid hardware? Are cloud gpu's a thing?
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Is it reasonable to advise someone who is new to this stuff on MacOS to just installl Ubuntu on VirtualBox?



New to linux, think she needs a gui. I will look into UTM.


I’m not sure there is a need to run linux on bare metal, or carry around a second laptop.



Sounds good, is there a simple guide to UTM on MacOS?


My daughter is starting a college computing course next month and has been told they will be using linux. She has a fairly recent, last 5yrs or less I think, intel macbook but knows nothing about linux or vm's. I advised her to install Ubuntu in a VM when she asked about it, she asked how to do this. Initial thought is Virtualbox but I've not used MacOS since well before it became MacOS nor used VirtualBox in many years, have heard of new shiny new things like UTM, Parallels & VMWare. Is it a reasonable suggestion to just use VirtualBox? Is there a better option? Bit of a dad moment; "Just install Linux and then I can help you", "But how do I install Linux dad?"
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