MalReynolds

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Your biggest bang for buck is with cheap second hand drives, keep a spare on hand to rebuild the array / volume when one dies. You should be aware that the number of drives in the array directly affects the amount of usable space, 2 drives 50% of total available (a direct mirror, to compensate for the loss of one drive), 3 drives you get 66%, 5 gets you 80%. Say you get 6 4Tb drives, keep one as a spare and the remaining 5 will give you 16Tb usable (with one lost to parity so you can survive one disk failure). You then immediately want to save for a 16 Tb external drive for offline, preferably offsite backup (RAID is not Backup!). As others have wisely said, anything can be used to host, but aim at the most power efficient. If necessary get a PCI card for more SATA or SAS ports. Identify high value, small files, documents, current work, personal photos, source code and so forth and arrange for cloud backup, preferably with local encryption so you needn't trust the cloud provider, preferably in at least two places (so one can go tits up or enshittify without bothering you). You'd be surprised what fits into a free 10Gb account if you triage well.

Good luck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Who watches the watchers?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (5 children)

If it's suss use a vm before your main OS.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Kodi will let you switch engines to VLC.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

How do you feel about having to specify a different file for all of your containers and volumes?

I have made my peace, it's the price of not giving docker root. I just open a Kate session and it's all there, nicely broken into sections.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No one ever got fired for using intel nics, it's worth it for the time it'll save.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Not sure yet, agree it's not as nice to look at as YAML, but at least it's prettier than the alternative systemd.service implementation, and it's been rock solid so far. Time will tell, I'm sure pods will come and it seems to be what redhat sees as their direction. A method for automatically generating them from docker YAML (and hopefully vice-versa) would go a looong way towards speeding adoption.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Anyone able to compare this with your own SearxNG instance ? I recently set one up, bit of pain in that, but being able to blacklist content farms has been really nice (bye fandom) and the list provided really improves coding search. Choosing what search engines I like (and adding new ones) really helps deshittify search results, bangs, pipe it hrough a vpn etc... Haven't dived that deep and it's already leaps and bounds better than my previous search experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

once the containers are running after podman-compose you can use podman-generate-systemd to create a systemd services. Helped me move a rather large compose file to a bunch of services. My notes weren't the best, sorry, but that's the gist.It got me moved. I've now moved on to .container files for new stuff, which generates them on the fly. Need to move my old services over, but they work and who's got the time...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Concur, podman doesn't (have to) have root, and has autoupdate and podman-compose to use docker files. Containers are cool, Docker less so.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

On Calibre, suck it up and backup the directory, it is significantly the best ebook library...

gluetun is life, look at a local searxng via gluetun proxy for ameliorating search engine enshittification.

otherwise, seems sensible...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you're reasonably tech savvy and on linux you can use hydroxide to bridge a free protonmail to thunderbird. I've been doing it for ~a year, I suspect they don't kill it for ratings, but I only have free protonmail on my GrapheneOS phone with forwards from thunderbird for specific things, works great...

If relevant, ask me how!

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