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The keychain however was cheaper

I saw this on the shelf and was like "lol capitalism" but also at the time I was literally wearing a backpack with a Hatsune Miku keychain hanging off it so maybe I can't criticize

@aeva @rotopenguin @Foritus A folder has several limitations by comparison. It cannot be compressed, it cannot be encrypted with a different key from the drive which contains it, it cannot be mounted read-only, and it cannot be unmounted.

They call it "3D filament" when it is clearly 1D… ironic…

@qoqo941305 Computer is scary sometimes

@rotopenguin @Foritus Okay.

Assuming I understand these things in principle but not in detail and am looking for actual help— used to, when I used macs, I could create a "Sparse Bundle Disk Image" and it was like a hard drive in a file, which could grow and and shrink returning space to the host disk as it shrank, and could be encrypted, and could be compressed. Is this a thing I can do from Linux? What's the best way? (Assume for this one question I no longer care about Windows.)

@lambdageek @elladan Hm that's interesting, but I use WSL1 (because WSL2 has terrible performance when accessing the windows partitions) and the first thing I plan to do with this drive is move a whole lot of files off my Win 10 extended support machine. So although I guess I only do that once, whatever I do the exfiltration from would ideally be adequate perf when addressing both the NTFS drive (from) and the external drive (to)

@demize oh. beta D:

@rotopenguin @Foritus is this a serious suggestion?

In what way would it be better than NTFS straight?

Why not bcachefs on exfat?

Okay but seriously: Should I NTFS? People are saying the Linux NTFS driver is "pretty good" "perfectly adequate" is "adequate" what I'm looking for with my backup HD

https://toot.dusepo.co.uk/@Foritus/116155362354958361

@demize This look stable? https://openzfsonwindows.org/

@jmhill @Foritus What other options are there? I was told that flashdrives can lose data if they are unpowered for more than a year and this claim is repeated often on the internet

Hey if I want to format an HD for archival purposes, and I want it to be accessible from both Windows* and Linux** without problems, do I use… exfat? Will exfat freak out if I format it at absurdly high sizes like 12 TB, or give me an annoyingly high "minimum file size" or something? Are there any more-reliable/journaled FSes that both these OSes are happy with?

* 10
** Let's say Debian Trixie

ME: I want a 5 TB hard drive

Amazon: We can do that

Canada Computers: I can give you 12 TB for twice the price

Christine: Wait, Canada Computers has 12 TB drives for *how* much? Get two

Me, walking back from yonge-dundas square the next morning, absolutely twisted, carrying 24 TB of platter drives:

Meanwhile, in Canada

@kasperd @ireneista @RogerBW to me an internal hard drive in an enclosure is a win because it is in a nice plastic case and it won't get banged up in a move or something

@dysfun @RogerBW @ireneista I don't understand this post. You're saying I should avoid using the Purple drives for purposes *other* than the surveillance camera usecase?

@RogerBW @ireneista Some people are trying to convince me not to buy an external usb hard drive for backup but instead spend $40 more on an internal hd and then i guess a bit more than that on an enclosure

They told me I needed "purple surveillance"

"Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess", 1989