Noise may be something to look for when you’re shopping, depending on where your server lives. I have 1 Iron Wolf drive in my NAS (that is in my living room), and it is way louder than the combined noise of 3 WD Reds next to it.
As for failures, Backblaze publishes quarterly failure reports that I always brush up on before looking for a new drive.
The majority of our household stuff is on a Synology DS920+ (x86). I installed Docker and Portainer on it and then run most of my local services (Immich, Invidious, Alexandrite (the Lemmy frontend), Miniflux, Dokuwiki, and Heimdall) using the Portainer UI.
I’m still running Plex as a manually installed Syno package, because I haven’t taken the time to figure out hardware trans-coding for other setups.
The 920 also manages cameras (via Surveillance Station), all off site backups (we all backup workstations to the 920 and it backs up online), handles private DNS and the reverse proxy for Docker, and hosts my personal VPN. I’m currently in the process of swapping the 4+ year old drives with new ones what will up my capacity (using SHR) from 12TB to 30 (with redundancy).
Clearly that’s what blu-tack is for.
“Secure that SSD in a bay and get the faceplate off my butterfly, you monster!” -Buster
I’m taking note of that that combo feather teaser / ball track / butterfly toy. I think my big orange boy would lose his mind over that.
I can sort of see the appeal, but its not for me. If anything is ever going to rename files for me its going to be a script that I’ve either written or at least read top to bottom. Not a blackbox inference engine, and especially not one based on an LLM.
If I had 25 surprise desktops I imagine I’d discover a long dormant need for a Beowulf cluster.
Dave Davies of The Kinks changed rock music with a razor blade. Distortion pedals existed but they couldn’t provide the same kind of fuss sound that we hear in “You Really Got Me”… but a year later they could.
I did in my youth and then at some point I swapped over to hoping I go out early and painlessly if a massive terrible something happens.
It’s a decent general purpose data formatter (like “convert this giant json to yaml”) but there are other ways to do that.
It’s ok at being able to ask questions of documentation, as long as you don’t take anything at face value. Really if you understand 90% of something its not bad at giving you the missing 10%. And it makes me a bit faster when I go back to bash, the anti-bicycle, after a break.
And I find myself not writing as many IDE snippets because AI is good at super repetitive stuff like, “wrap this promise in an async function.” That’s not the best example but it’s what I could think of quickly.
Indeed. Data longevity is a concern for me in general. There have been enough Lemmy instances that have disappeared (including once I used to be on) that our ability to become a massive first-hand knowledge center (like Reddit) is endangered.
I know user portability is getting active attention. I’m hoping at some point there’s a cohesive solution where all our data is in our own hands and we can plop it on to any instance of any service with a few simple steps.
I’m less settled on Lemmy, but fully settled in the Threadiverse. Basically I see Lemmy like my current Linux distro: It’s good and getting the job done, but I’m always watching the next iteration in the ecosystem.
That said, I feel like I’ve landed on a good host and alternate frontend that I like. And I LOVE that I can choose my host and frontend.
Stop observing.
They’ve been trying to remain DST, but you need federal approval, and some states have been waiting a decade or longer for that. States can stay standard time on their own accord.
I live in Pacific but work remotely in Mountain. I’ve just adjusted to working 8 - 4 and subtracting an hour in my head anytime someone mentions a time.
It’s starting to look more likely that Wa, Or, and Ca are going to stop observing DST. Then I’ll be 2 hours different from March to November. That seems like it will be harder.
I wanted to be an actor as a kid only because I assumed that the kids in toy commercials would get to keep the toys after the shoot.
I’m not good at making things, but I’m not bad at telling computers how to make things.
and reddit’s worst part are here so reddit is now better.
Reddit’s worst part is Spez. I hope Spez isn’t here.
For me it has to be the end of In The Pale Moonlight
So I will learn to live with it…Because I can live with it…I can live with it.
Computer – erase that entire personal log.
Gives me chills
The plug is also a good place to put it regulatory speaking as it means no manufacturers needs to change device designs, they just need to buy different cords. And it does not mean the plug has to be huge the way it once did. Most people in the US don’t even notice that there are fuses in the christmas light plugs. And I had a desk heater once that used an automotive fuse; it mean most of the plug was fuse but it was still built into ano therwise standard NEMA 1-15 plug.
a plastic earth pin like this