just_another_person
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- Comment on Backup restoration and migration 17 hours ago:
Logs
- Comment on Would the tart blueberries taste as good if you didn't have to randomly power through 3 to 5 bland ones between each good one? 23 hours ago:
If they’re firm, they will be tart. Let them sit a few days and the sugars will develop a bit and be sweeter.
- Comment on Syncthing Backup w Raspberry Pi 1 day ago:
And literally everything else can do it better.
But at least you got that.
😘
- Comment on Does display scaling not work in live boots? 1 day ago:
A LiveUSB is very simple. It’s built to run the basics, so it’s not weird to think something so specific doesn’t behave as you would expect.
- Comment on Syncthing Backup w Raspberry Pi 2 days ago:
No. Just…no.
- Comment on Does display scaling not work in live boots? 2 days ago:
Specs? Your hardware probably just doesn’t support it.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 2 days ago:
The failure rate is going to be absolute INSANE as well.
- Comment on Syncthing Backup w Raspberry Pi 2 days ago:
I didn’t miss it, but didn’t loop back. Apologies.
I disregarded that as a solution in my response to that, because it’s not really a solution to OP’s request. Yes, they are cheaper. No, they are not functional for this need due to lack of PCIe. Running SSDs on these devices is not a feature because of the bus speed and connection limitations.
Sure it’s possible. No, it’s not functional for the needs requested here, or even a good suggestion. If somebody wanted a RELIABLE backup target using SSDs, this is the last possible scenario I would even suggest, and only if working from a box of scraps.
I’m not discounting your point that it’s cheaper at all, but it’s like…okay…if someone asked me where to get steak, because they need steak for a recipe they are cooking for dinner, my response shouldn’t be “Well, you could get steak right there, but it costs $X, and you can get Chicken wayyyyyyyy over there. It’s not beef, and it’s not what your recipe calls for, but it’s cheaper and possible to get.”
You’re asserting a position into justification for an argument that doesn’t exist. OP isn’t asking what they could theoretically run backups to. That could be an esp32 board for even cheaper. It’s also an even worse solution than an RPi. It’s just not what they’re asking for.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 2 days ago:
This ONLY works at an insane scale. This will never hit the consumer market.
- Comment on Syncthing Backup w Raspberry Pi 2 days ago:
Again…I think you’re just missing the point here and trying to justify a worse solution without cause. A cheaper, more functional solution exists already. Trying to assert “you don’t need this or that” is not useful.
If I went to a car dealership and they told me a newer model of a car I wanted was in stock for $X, I’m not going to say “Okay,bsure, but I want the shitter version, and I’ll pay more for it.”
Makes zero sense.
- Comment on Weird Internet Behavior Starting Selfhost Server & PC's 2 days ago:
Then something has changed about the local deployment and concentration of the network near you. Don’t know what to tell ya 🤷
As long as the provider is the same, and your instances are using properly using DoH or DoT, you have nothing to worry about.
If you’re super concerned though, I’d be using Mullvad over Cloudflare though. Just saying.
- Comment on Weird Internet Behavior Starting Selfhost Server & PC's 2 days ago:
See my other response. This is quite normal.
- Comment on Weird Internet Behavior Starting Selfhost Server & PC's 2 days ago:
Yes, that’s called Round-Robin Load Balancing.
To get more specific, your DNS provider spins up a large number of DNS resolvers out in the world on a CDN network that resolves clients to the most geographically convenient server(s) at any point in time based on the GeoIP info of your public IP.
Once you resolve one set of addresses at any given time, it catches your request, so the next time you ask these DNS servers for something you’ll get a response right back from them as fast as possible.
You constantly checking is just going to show this. It’s quite normal.
- Comment on Syncthing Backup w Raspberry Pi 2 days ago:
You’re going out of your way to prove some unnecessary point with this solution though.
Only the RPi5 has PCIe, first of all, and the older boards would need a slow USB interface for any type of larger storage. Then you have longevity and reliability questions because of the age of the boards…it’s just worth it.
OP wants a simple solution. RPi of any kind just ain’t it when you get down a simple list of Pros v Cons list.
- Comment on Weird Internet Behavior Starting Selfhost Server & PC's 2 days ago:
Your public IP is DHCP. It changes from time to time. Nothing weird about that.
Any of the other IP’s in the DNS Servers list changing is just what you get pointed to when resolved based on your GeoIP location.
- Comment on Does display scaling not work in live boots? 2 days ago:
Do you have an Nvidia GPU? The driver probably isn’t loaded on LiveUSB due to licensing issues and is using the open Nouveau driver which I don’t think handles scaling.
- Comment on Looking for FOSS server monitoring UI 2 days ago:
SigNoz or Uptrace are alternatives to something like DataDog, which is the route you want to go versus checking each individual machine.
You could also just use Prometheus+Grafana and build your own monitoring dashboards and alerts that way, but will be a bit more manual at first.
- Comment on Weird Internet Behavior Starting Selfhost Server & PC's 2 days ago:
I might be misunderstanding, but you’re checking what exactly for DNS leaks?
If the IPs are changing, that’s not uncommon. The HOST changing would be though, like if you swapped from what you expected back to Comcast or something.
You need to get better control of your local network and not have to be paranoid about this. Static reservations for long lived hosts, your router should have a setting to override and prevent internal hosts (like guests) from sending OoB DNS requests, and any sort of VPS stack should as well.
- Comment on Syncthing Backup w Raspberry Pi 2 days ago:
The downvoted here are from people who have no idea what in the world actually works best, and just FEEL a certain way about things 🤣
- Comment on Syncthing Backup w Raspberry Pi 3 days ago:
If you’re going for reliability, and you just want things to be simple, you probably just want to spend the money on two cheap NAS boxes, honestly. There are some caveats that come with RPi’s, and you’re unfamiliar it’s: 1) going to cost about the same, 2) be simpler to manage and upgrade, and 3) be easier to repair disk columes when the time comes.
Even if you’re just looking to make these redundant to each other, just make it simple and easy.
- Comment on Spotify changes developer mode API to require premium accounts, limits test users 3 days ago:
I think it’s more about closing a backdoor to free product that was generally out of reach for most people a few years. Free API access for devs has been a thing forever for the most part, but the barriers are now lower for people to abuse it.
Yes about profits in the sense they don’t want people getting free access to content, but I don’t think this is designed to net them a bunch of money or anything.
- Comment on Spotify changes developer mode API to require premium accounts, limits test users 3 days ago:
This is going to become more of a standard due to people vibecoding their own clients for every dumb thing.
- Comment on Is H9me Assistant recommended? 3 days ago:
HA is definitely the largest adopted. OpenHab is probably more geared for developers, but has a more concise and powerful automation system.
As for hardware to run it on: get a cheap n100 Minipc and be done with it. Uses 6-12W, and it’s going to miles.kore efficient for this use than a regular PC.
- Comment on AWS intruder pulled off AI-assisted cloud break-in in 8 mins 4 days ago:
This is just poor security. Not like in TV/Movies where an “AI” was found “breaking layers of firewalls and encryption” or whatever 🤣
Somebody fucked up. Plain and simple.
- Comment on Geo-distributed Jellyfin 4 days ago:
When talking about media streaming, there’s a number of other things that cause problems Bandwidth, meaning the total amount of information you can send overall, is less likely to be a problem versus jitter, packet loss, and latency spikes.
For this purpose, but OP would tune both the server and the clients to cache ahead more, or send in smaller packets, it could possibly be a good workaround.
Spending an insane amount of money putting what I’m guessing is illegally obtained content on a CDN distribution is crazypants.
- Comment on Geo-distributed Jellyfin 4 days ago:
Bandwidth does not degrade over distance. That’s not how that works…
Again, I’m confused on what you’re suggesting the actual issue is here.
- Comment on Geo-distributed Jellyfin 4 days ago:
Uplink is exactly the problem. Not sure why you think otherwise. The internet doesn’t work by multicast.
- Comment on Geo-distributed Jellyfin 4 days ago:
You’re describing a CDN. You can’t afford it.
I’d look more into boosting whatever your uplink is versus trying to distribute to localized users.
- Comment on Helm chart installable solutions? 5 days ago:
Helm sucks. You don’t even need it for what you’re trying to do.
- Comment on Should I be using Debian? 5 days ago:
Mint is for desktops. Hands down.
Run something paired down for servers. Fedora Server, or plain Debian are fine. CoreOS or Talos if you’re trying out some k8s stuff.
Yes, it’s mostly just package selection, but you don’t need to sift through the cruft and clean up all the desktop shit running you don’t need.