The only thing in my gmail spam box is some ad for a pirate tv streaming service that's probably a scam...

Scrub doesn't log anything by default, you run it and it returns quickly... you have to get the results out of zpool status or through zed.

Total pool size and speed. Less data scrubs faster, as do faster disks or disk topology (a 3 way stripe of nvme will scrub faster than a single sata ssd)

For what its worth, I scrub daily mostly because I can. It's completely overkill, but if it only takes half an hour, then it can run in the middle of the night while I'm sleeping.

I was hoping it would explain "what is Plan 9", or rather, "why is it called plan 9, and what were the other 8 plans?"...

Its name ("Plan 9 from Bell Labs") is a reference to the movie "Plan 9 from Outer Space" :-)

Considering that my Bluetooth headset disconnects when I even think about looking at my microwave, I can't trust Bluetooth any further than 10 feet...

If you want kilometers of range in wide open air, give anything lora based a try.

It's complicated... there's Windows .net apps (which run in wine through mono), there's Linux .net apps (that get run with dotnet), and there's apps that have to be run through mono directly.

IIUC, Microsoft bought-out Mono and donated it to Wine, making it effectively legacy. It probably still 'works', but not many big IT departments are going to run critical apps on some old unsupported hackjob.

Unless the app is also an unsupported hackjob. ;)

From my experience, mariadb is about the same as mysql... depending on the queries, it can either be fine, or slow as balls. I'm actually considering switching to pgsql to see if its any better. /shrug

> It's still the foundational underpinning of everything Microsoft does

And sadly, the backbone of the majority of quality, paid software... if windows starts losing market share to Linux, things will start becoming interesting when the adobe's of the world start eying the Linux desktop as a platform where everyone already has applications that do what they were selling.

"where everyone already has applications that do what they were selling"

They can probably still sell software there. The problem is that too few people overall are using Linux.

> Some say RedHat as a whole was created by Microsoft.

Presumably people who never read the Halloween documents?

People who consult numerous sources before reaching a final, definite conclusion.

Don't get me wrong, macs are certainly the computer for people who like to pretend to be smart for tv... but seeing where the economy is going, nobody is going to be able to afford Apple hardware, let alone the software...

We're talking about Adobe and other paid software, which is generally for professionals. They make back more than the entire cost of the software and the computer by doing a job for just one client.

And Apple computers are incredibly affordable, rumored to get a budget laptop which will be even cheaper. Computers in general are dirt cheap, including Apple. And paid software is not expensive on Apple either. There are tons of quality pro software for $50 - $100 per license. And affordable subscription models of pro creative software for those who are just getting started.

Except its not a hard power off, it only tells windows to shut down... I've seen instances of windows hanging on both startup and shutdown, leaving me no other option but to hard power off the machine (because nobody uses a reset button anymore).

Does this bring the old Halt and Catch Fire command back as an option?

Until people started launching them into the ceiling...