The can weighs 51g full, that’s 19g for the can and 32g for the fuel. The can is 37% of the weight of the whole system.

Conversely, the smallest normal canister you can buy weighs 215g full, 102g of which is the can, and 113g is the fuel. The can is 48% of the weight of the whole system.

The savings isn’t that much, but it’s technically there, and it’s interesting. My plan is to bring it on an overnight or two night summer trip to get some laughs from my friends, but I’m not sure I’ll use it much more than that.

I’m getting into alcohol stoves too, maybe I’ll bring this as a backup? 🤷‍♂️

Well, yes and no. Usually they are filled with 1,1-Difluoroethane, which is heavier than butane, and I believe has a very very low global warming potential.

However, some of them do ship with butane as the propellant, if you look closely.

This one, however, I refilled with butane.

Before anyone says it, yes I understand the risks of refilling canisters, especially off label like this. I’ve done tons of research and due diligence, taking into account the different vapor pressures and molecular weights of the gases. As well as leaving plenty of safety margin in the headspace in the can. I’m well below the safety margin of the can even when it had difluoroethane in it, let alone the fact that it could handle significantly more.

Thanks for the write-up!

I see now I was conflating zfs with RAID in general. It makes sense that you could have the benefits of a checksumming filesystem without the need for RAID, by simply restoring from backups.

This is a great start for me to finally get some local backups going.

Can you explain this to me better?

I need to work on my data storage solution, and I knew about bit rot but thought the only solution was something like a zfs pool.

How do I go about manually detecting bit rot? Assuming I had perfect backups to replace the rotted files.

Is a zfs pool really that inefficient space wise?

Glad I could be of service! I do love it here 😁

Some people like tinkering. Big Clive has a series of videos on Dubai led bulbs. The government mandates that the bulbs be extra efficient and last extra long, so they are built with more filaments driven at a lower current. They run cooler and last longer. You can do a similar thing with American bulbs if you’re handy with a soldering iron.

Honestly, with how poor many of these things are mass produced, opening them up yourself is practically a personal form of quality control. Whether you modify it or not I bet it’s less likely to die prematurely or burn your house down than those of a regular person who doesn’t open them 🤷‍♂️

I used to like the a400, had a few of them in service, but a few years ago I tried another one and it was terrible. Just… Slow… like an HDD. I did some research and apparently they changed something with the nand somewhere along the line. Did a bait and switch. I don’t remember the details but it annoyed me.

I actually needed to buy a budget SSD just today, and I got a BX500. We’ll see how it goes. I know not to expect much from a drive without DRAM, but at least I know that going in.

It should be default on, with a setting to turn it off for power users