I won a small victory in Sainsbury’s today. There were no checkouts open and a gaggle of shop assistants just standing around chatting. I dislike using the self service so I stood by a checkout and glared meaningfully at the assistants until one backed down and opened the checkout.
I originally did but the maintenance burden was killing me. Then last year Proton unified their subscription with VPN and Mail (also upgrading my Proton VPN only subscription to Proton plus) and from there I decided to just go all in on Proton mail. I integrated my domain to Proton mail and never looked back.
Also, pleeeaaase, someone find me that ancient image macro of a boy, maybe he had a moustache, or maybe it was drawn on, he was raising an eyebrow, and the only caption on it was “que?”. I’ve been searching for that forever.
I saw the scramble exodus from twitter to fedi, specifcally mastodon, when elon took over, give it time, when it first happened the Main instance Mastodon.social was swarmed aswell as the instances listed in mastodons Website at the time, over time more instances popped up with themes, im aware of lemmy-php which uses phpbb What doomed lemmy migration is how short the Protest is, over the 3 month Period with twitter fediverse microblogging adapted, just as reddit Corp will ride the wave so will lemmy with minor change, what needs to happen is the suggested “indefinite Protest” it will make lemmy instances pop up with themes, and smaller instances contributing to federation Themed instances already include lemmygrad.ml
I didn’t try MCC or multiplayer, since I was just performance testing on the computer (will eventually be the wife’s machine after we move next month), but even running Academy with the bots was running great. I was able to sign into my Microsoft account no problem though, so I want to try multiplayer next.
I’ve been trying to get docker swarm running across my 4 rpi’s, but traefik hasn’t been able to discover services (can find them on the same node if the network is a bridge, can’t find anything with overlay network) which has been frustrating to try to figure out the problem. That said, here is what I plan to host on the swarm:
traefik
grocy
nextcloud
vaultwarden
plex
nginx (portfolio website that I currently just have on GitHub pages)
lemmy instance (for some of you beautiful bastards)
readarr, sonarr, readarr, lidarr, prowlarr, sabnzb, and qbittorrent
I run k3s on a similar setup, 4x rpi4 and 2x Intel Atom mini PCs. Obviously different software with different goals, but was remarkably simple despite the heterogenous platform.
I wasn’t even using Wine. I installed it and launched through Steam and the entire process was as seamless as if it were on Windows. Valve is doing great work.
I will agree it’s limiting, but it isn’t anywhere close to confusing. The one thing I will say is that some app settings are tucked away in the iOS settings app, which I would prefer them to be in the actual app.
Both are correct. You can hand an iPhone to a 3 year old and they’ll figure it out. If you’re used to Android and care about changing things or accessing files, iPhone is a pain in the butt.
There’s always a learning curve going from one thing to another. Like you said, going from Android to iOS, learning the UI and where things are placed may take some time to get used to at first. I went from Android to an iPhone 12 a couple years ago, and it took some time to learn. Same goes for switching from iOS to Android. That being said, it doesn’t mean the UI is confusing.
All devices backup to my NAS either in realtime or at short intervals throughout the day. I use recycling bins for easy restores for accidentally deleted files.
My NAS is set up on a RAID for drive redundancy (Synology RAID) and does regular backups to the cloud for active files.
Once a day I do a hyperbackup to an external HDD.
Once a month I backup to an external drive that lives offsite.
Backups to these external HDDs have versioning, so I can restore files from multiple months ago, if needed.
The biggest challenge is that as my NAS grows, it costs significantly more to expand my backups space. Cloud storage and new external drives aren’t cheap. If I had an easy way to keep a separate NAS offsite, that would considerably reduce ongoing costs.
Depending on how much storage do you need (>30 TB?), it may be cheaper to use a colocation service for a server as an offsite backup instead of cloud storage. It’s not as safe, but it can be quite cheaper, especially if for some reason you’re forced to rapidly download a lot of your data from the cloud backup. (Backblaze b2 costs $0.01/gb downloaded).
Do you have an example or website I could look at for this ‘colocation service’?
Currently using idrive as the cloud provider, which is free until the end of the year, but I’m not locked into their service. Cloud backups really only see more active files (<7TB), and the unchanging stuff like my movie or music catalogue seems reasonably safe on offsite HDD backups, so I don’t have to pay just to keep those somewhere else.
First I’d like to apologize because I originally wrote less than 30TB instead of more than 30TB, I’ve changed that in the post.
A colocation is a data center where you pay a monthly price and they’ll house your server (electricity and internet bandwidth is usually included unless with certain limits and if you need more you can always pay extra).
Here’s an example. It’s usually around $99/99€ per 1U server. If you live in/near a big city there’s probably at least a data center that offers colocation services.
But as I said, it’s only worth it if you need a lot of storage or if you move files around a lot, because bandwidth charges when using object storage tend to be quite high.
For <7 TB it isn’t worth it, but maybe in the future.
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