How about you try to keep your instance running for more than 5 minutes straight instead of wasting your time with this nonsense. Disgusting move.

dd spends time copying empty blocks

Ze kunnen misschien al eens beginnen met onze taal correct te benoemen. Onze taal heet nog altijd Nederlands (Néerlandais), en niet Vlaams (Flamand).

Arch has always been rock solid for me and in 10 years or so I have never had to chroot to fix an issue

For me it has usually been boot related things or when I’m doing planned deep surgery on my system. I can recall a few times that I used arch-chroot through the years:

• When the grub package was updated and generated a config file that was incompatible with the earlier grub version that was installed on my EFI partition.
• There was one time a kernel that wouldn’t boot on my hardware, so went back in to install linux-lts
• There was once a bug in netctl that caused it to hang indefinitely on boot, so I had to go in to disable the service so that I could at least boot to troubleshoot it.
• After every BIOS update of my Gigabyte motherboard, I have to re-add grub to the nvram entries by running grub-install from a chroot environment. On my ASUS system I don’t have to do this, don’t ask me why.
• When I moved my installation to a new SSD and made a typo in /etc/fstab
• When I was switching over to a LUKS encrypted root filesystem it was handy that I could boot into the installer to do a clean copy of my root filesystem and make all the grub, mkinitcpio, /etc/fstab changes via arch-chroot. It was also good to know that I could always go back in that way to make additional changes as it can be tricky to get it all right on the first try.

The sad part is that I can’t tell if this is a joke or not.

“Let’s go burn down the observatory, so this will never happen again”

The new one has a standby usage closer to 2,5 - 5 watts while having a lot more performance

You can’t just say that without giving the specs of your new server

I trust you on that

Aw man :(

Yeah keep telling yourself that Lennart.