All I know about ZFS is that there are weird patent or closed source encumbrances or something. I hear it’s good, and it seems popular, I just avoid proprietary Oracle products.

As for btrfs, the only thing that’s claimed to be unstable is raid 5 or 6. And people use it in production saying the claims are overblown. I don’t. I use it in raid1 mode. But raid1 in btrfs doesn’t require a bunch of matching drives. It lets you glom together a number of mismatched disks and just puts every block on more than one of them. So it’s a nice cross between a raid and LFS or JBOD.

Just btrfs.

A quart of water, about five to ten minutes before the desired event.

Writing tmux configs with nvim. Managing tmux configs with stow. Storing tmux configs with git. Running terraform and ansible to configure the git server with the tmux configs on it. SSH session to run monitoring utilities on the server that runs git to store my tmux configs. Running it all under tmux.

In this house, we serve both kinds of cuisine: macaroni and cheese!

Next I’d be pretty happy if EDM could stop sounding like pop music too

I think you said pliers weren’t doing the job. Grab them with vice grips (locking pliers) and use the claw side of a hammer to pull them off like a nail.