Glusterfs?

It’ll let you turn the storage on each server into a single volume and you can set raid-like mirroring/striping.

I was like most Americans doom scrolling things things like r/latestagecapitalism and a r/aboringdystopia because I was aware that things were fucked; like most of us are.

It felt like the fuckery was permanent and that there was nothing I could do but accept that this was reality and try to make the most out of it; filling me w despair about life and leading me to doomscrolling all the time.

Lemmy showed to me in writing that this fuckery was predicted almost 2 centuries ago and that there’s actually very few people perpetuating the fuckery (for their own benefit) and they’ve engineered this system to create the mass false belief that all the fuckery is permanent and that there is nothing we can do about it except push for small, ineffectual changes.

Lemmy, tiktok, and rednote have shown me that people like me are living significantly better lives simply because the ultra rich are not allowed to perpetuate the type of fuckery that was keeping me trapped in a doomscroll loop.

Rednote, in particular, was eye opening for me: I learned from them that most people on that side of the planet assume that life altering medical bills, housing unaffordability, & student loans like mine were nothing more than anti-american propaganda from their governments.

I’m glad to learn that this is a thing; I’ve been doing my own cloud like service, VPN and backups using my own home built router/server and the consensus on both Reddit and Lemmy is that I’m foolish for doing so.

Thank you for making me aware that there are others like me so feel about relying on profit seeing parties the same way.

priorities indeed:

These statistics reveal that, since October, U.S. CBP officers have made 3,768 seizures of bird and poultry-related products at all U.S. borders, compared to 352 fentanyl seizures in the same period…

the weeds are the misinformation and if those are getting killed off too; then your problem isn’t misinformation.

and you’ll forever be struggling with it because that type is impossible to distinguish from the other type if you don’t have the right frame of reference to detect it.

your experience with eating and swimming gives you a frame of reference that lets you detect that swimming less than 30 minutes after eating is bullshit, so you’re able to recognize it as the misinformation that it is and having a proper frame of reference like this is the only way to combat any misinformation.

it’s impossible for anyone to have a frame of reference so broad that they can detect all misinformation; not even a group of people can either. becoming something of an expert on the subject of the misinformation is the only thing you can to do help it and, even then, being an expert is relative.

instead, you have to see misinformation as weeds in a mental garden that you will forever have to keep maintaining for your entire life; more weeds will always find their way into your garden and it’s up to you to keep clearing them out so that your flowers can shine through and recognize when the flowers you’ve chosen are the wrong ones for the garden.

prepper… as in doomsday prepping?

but unlike most of the other cults; people who escape from this cult are not popularly heeded.

i’m convinced that calling it misinformation is part of the problem.

misinformation is the proper word for it, but the word carries with it the connotation that it’s intentional or ill willed; so misinformation that doesn’t seem to have either are given a pass.

for example: take the piece of misinformation that you shouldn’t go swimming 30 minutes after you’ve eaten; it’s misinformation like any other but allowed to perpetuate because it doesn’t seem ill willed or intentional.

that means that any misinformation that seems innocent is allowed to perpetuate and that’s how propaganda takes hold; repeat it enough times and it seems like an established & unquestionable fact and, therefore, innocent, so it flies under the rather and keeps getting perpetuated as fact like the misinformation with swimming & eating

it is getting traction, but people are coalescing one very few fediverse platforms instead of spreading themselves out evenly and that’s effectively re-creating the kind centralization that empowered the enshitification that reddit, twitter, facebook, and (eventually) bluesky experience.

i worked at starbucks during its heyday in the 90’s and it turned me into an espresso snob thanks to the training they used to put their barista through.

they stopped doing that sometime in the 2000’s and now i’m so bougie that starbucks is beneath my standards. lol

i’m the same way with food; i used to make my own tortillas and now everything store bought is beneath my standards too. lol

switching to lemmy has made my social media consumption SIGNIFICANTLY less doomscroll-ey

@Oomny@lemmy.ca once we see the canadian government keep the EV tariffs anyways despite the separate tariff war with america; it’ll become clear how much of a spectacle this is since little of it impacts the ruling classes as much as it does ordinary people.

canada adopted the EV tariffs that china is responding to, to please the united states and i bet that canada is going to keep them anyways despite their separate tariff war with the united states.

the part that’s weird to me is that “non-logical” people are always equally non-logical and they’re always the same whether it’s something they care deeply about or not.

they never have to wonder about consolidating. lol

veritassium did a video replicating a FASCINATING study that proves that logical people get dramatically less logical when they encounter facts that contradicts their deeply held beliefs; they get even less logical that “non-logical” people

so they don’t consolidate the 2 sides of themselves; instead they apply their logic to the things that they don’t care much about and get less logical on the subjects/topic that they care more about it.

… But the leaders of Melos were braver than me. They chose to fight. The result? The men were slaughtered, the women and children were enslaved, and the island was colonized. Were they heroes or fools? If you think of them as heroes, you are a liberal internationalist, who believes that peace and security depend on just governments that abide by enlightened rules. If you think they were fools, you’re a realist.

i used to think boudica was a great example of prevailing sentiments at how we see realism and idealism. in the past she was as regarded as a example of the price you pay for liberal idealism, like melos; but now she’s regarded as an inspiring story that typifies the idealism that drives our world today.

the lack of understanding and empathy are natural side effects of our atomization and it’s been fostered by our capitalist system to make us less willing to join together in our fight in the up vs down class struggle.

and hitler was a pretty good painter …

he’s going to have to if he wants to successfully get russia on our side against china.