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@isAdisplayName they're just being irrational
@crankylinuxuser when one of your pid loops gets to the point where it... (etc etc, refer to the above)
@crankylinuxuser When spellcheck gets to the point where it uses an unfathomable and unsustainable amount of resources and spreads dangerous misinformation to millions of people in the blink of an eye while it makes a few antisocial techbros obscenely rich off other peoples' work, you can expect to see a very similar post from me about how the world would be better off without it.

The world would be better off without AI.

That's really the only point that matters to me. I don't really care if you think it 10x's your productivity. I have yet to see any argument or combination of arguments that remotely comes close to negating that statement. The world would simply be better off without AI.

#ai #noai

@jee you should be able to do this by adding the "tries=N" option to its entry in /etc/crypttab (crypttab also has a manpage if you want more details).

You'll also need to regenerate the initrd with dracut (the command I keep in muscle memory is dracut --regenerate-all -fv) to get the new crypttab into the early-boot environment.

Just an additional note to be careful with these things since it can be challenging to recover - try to avoid typos etc :)

@nazokiyoubinbou mounting with the sync option can have a pretty big impact on performance though, and probably won't achieve much that unmounting (which will wait for the filesystem to sync) doesn't already do, just something to keep in mind if it's behaving abnormally slow.

The other thing to consider here is that the disk itself may have an unwritten cache. I've done something like this previously and had to use the sg_sync command before powering the disk off, i was seeing data loss otherwise, even with a filesystem sync/unmount beforehand. (This might be specific to the type of disk, and blockdev --flushbufs might achieve the same thing but more generally, maybe?)

As to the latter point of getting the name of the disk automatically... if your version of lsblk supports --filter you could do something like lsblk -dno NAME --filter 'ID == "blah"' and use lsblk -o +ID to find the id of your disk (then substitute it for "blah")

@kauer "all tip and no iceberg" - can't believe i haven't heard this absolute zinger before. It will fit perfectly into a document I'm currently writing that has to navigate a bunch of office politics. Amazing.
@elaterite proposal to rename "the butterfly effect" to "the printer effect" which makes a lot more sense in light of this
Oh, sure—when *the company* automates my job and keeps collecting the profits, that's "innovation," but when *I* automate my job and keep collecting a paycheck, that's "timeclock fraud."
@gumnos it's called a roundhouse push to main