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Know your fox

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Gray foxes are not from the Vulpes genus, which we call 'true' foxes, and are illustrated in the post. Theyre from the genus Urocyon! Which actually evolutionary predates Vulpes. Gray foxes not being part of Vulpes does not mean they are not foxes in the scientific sense, but in the sense of it being an animal which behaves, looks like a fox, so we still call them foxes.

Also think about the crab-eating fox (cerdocyon), bat-eared fox (otocyon) and all south American foxes (lycalopex). Theyre not true foxes as theyre not vulpes, but theyre still what we call foxes! :3

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caninae

https://findafox.net/post/view/1704

https://findafox.net/post/view/2906

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Consolidating fox communities

Hi :3

I'm active here, just not much to moderate since not much gets posted. When I initially moved to Lemmy, I had an account on .world, and didnt find any fox communities so created it myself. Then got the idea of setting up a bot to upload hourly from my personal fox picture collection, but that never happened. Now not a fan of having it on .world because of it defeating decentralization, but its already kinda established.

Nowadays I never post because I can't come up with a title, even though having plenty of images to post...

Also alot of time spent working on my own website, https://findafox.net/ on which there are plenty of pics :3

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Seagate Ironwolf or WD red plus drives

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These all seem to be 7200rpm drives, would 5400rpm drives make a large difference in terms of longevity relative to that? Also seeing mixed results from seagate there, first they mention there being 0 failures of a couple seagate models, but then later in the graph of annualized failures, seagate in general has the highest failure rate

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Indeed, they evolved in similar environments, meant to fulfill a specific role in said environment. Here's a quote from my friend Vuca that sums it up pretty good.

A taxonomic exclusionist might consider only members of genus Vulpes to truly be foxes, but such is not my own view, thus here is why I am inclusive of what I deem a "fox":

"Fox" is a pre-scientific appellation. Hence I think what is considered a "fox" ought to be based on appearance and behavior (lay pre-scientific traits) rather than genetic taxonomy. And here are what I would define as the traits of a "fox":

  1. a small-to-medium size wild canid
  2. with a long bushy tail
  3. that hunts small prey, in a solitary manner
  4. that does not live in packs

From: https://findafox.net/user/vuca

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True, can just keep it simple and descriptive, ill try to remember to post more :3

I would be in favor of moving the community to a different instance than .world, .sdf.org is definitely an option with the ![email protected] community already there, though as much as i like the running joke of the foxnews being actual fox news, it is kinda confusing possibly for someone that just wants to find a community centered around foxes, so creating a new community called [email protected] or foxes@.. would be in my favor

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Seagate Ironwolf or WD red plus drives

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So it will be the latter, as it will run nextcloud, a couple websites i have, a pihole and possible game servers when the need comes again. For the websites i plan on using the mass storage as a backup to the sites' data, so the actual running files will stay on the ssd running the os, currently considering proxmox actually.

for nextcloud i am not sure, since i use it to sync, and 'backup' (i know its not meant as a backup program), so it would need lots of random r/w, but it cant fit on the os ssd as that would get too large, currently only have a 250gb ssd on hand for the os.

Id love to get ssds instead of mass storage hdds, but theyre simply 3 times as expensive for the same storage which is out of budget for me.