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- Comment on Simple NAS hardware for home use? 9 hours ago:
What’s the point of using table formatting when you wrap it in a code block
- Comment on [deleted] 9 hours ago:
NUT for UPS monitoring and control. Powering back on is more tricky, because while you can configure it to power on when AC power is applied, if the mains power comes back before the UPS is exhausted, then the PC never sees a loss of AC power. Maybe your UPS has an option that will help with this.
- Comment on First file server 12 hours ago:
What exactly are you trying to accomplish? What problem are you trying to solve? There are dozens of kinds of file server, but we can’t recommend one that’ll meet your needs without knowing them.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 13 hours ago:
Yup. Take backups, have spares, and keep it off the Internet and it’ll work just fine.
Pro tip, you can get IDE to CF adapters if you want to put an SSD in those old machines to really see them fly.
- Comment on Nintendo Announces Free Switch 1 Games Upgrades for Switch 2 13 hours ago:
And the games in the article would have worked just fine on the Switch 2 as well.
- Comment on Nintendo Announces Free Switch 1 Games Upgrades for Switch 2 13 hours ago:
Steam Deck, for one.
- Comment on Nintendo Announces Free Switch 1 Games Upgrades for Switch 2 14 hours ago:
Yes it did store.steampowered.com/…/6941797379568863069
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again! 15 hours ago:
You’re gonna need to provide more detail on what you’re trying to do
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again! 16 hours ago:
Proxmox runs Qemu under the hood. It’s the current favorite for VM management.
I wouldn’t bother with k8s unless you’re deploying services in high availability, or groups of related containers.
- Comment on Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs 16 hours ago:
It’s not, but it gets clicks
- Comment on Searching advice for selfhosting critical data 1 day ago:
Okay so not critical, just mildly inconvenient if lost.
I would just keep one copy in RAID, and for the most important stuff a second copy locally or in the cloud. Yes, RAID is not backup, but a disk failure is probably the most likely failure scenario. Corruption is the second most likely.
- Comment on Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits 1 day ago:
Does it support macros?
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 days ago:
According to Google it only operates on device. If I didn’t trust Google with claims like that, I wouldn’t be using Android.
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 days ago:
That’s fine. I’m just not going to enable it.
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 days ago:
The beep is legal compliance, because some states require notification of call recording. Same reason you hear “this call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes”.
- Comment on Searching advice for selfhosting critical data 2 days ago:
Or a house fire, or flood, or lightning strike, or theft. Or just plain fat fingering something and deleting it all.
If you really mean life-or-death critical, yeah, 3-2-1 is the starting point.
- Comment on Searching advice for selfhosting critical data 2 days ago:
3-2-1?
- Comment on The Baldur's Gate 3 cast got a new set of pre-painted minis and—oh, oh no, oh no no no 2 days ago:
Someone has probably already done that.
But regular PLA printing doesn’t work well at this scale, I’ve tried.
- Comment on UPS input load 2 days ago:
It varies greatly by model. Read your manual.
- Comment on UPS input load 2 days ago:
What’s in the UPS log?
- Comment on The Baldur's Gate 3 cast got a new set of pre-painted minis and—oh, oh no, oh no no no 3 days ago:
The only one that actually looks bad is the one at the top of the article. The others look fine.
The one of the red woman (I haven’t played the game so no idea who is who) looks like it might be bad, but the pictures are also terrible so it’s impossible to say.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 4 days ago:
It must have been under the one you meant to reply to, because I swear I saw it as a reply. (Boost sometimes doesn’t display reply indents properly anyway.)
Or are you gaslighting me right now?
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 4 days ago:
It’s about on par with other movies of the era. If you like those, you’ll like Gaslight.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
There’s probably some limit, but it’s never even crossed my mind when building a system. Any modern system should support absurd disk sizes.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 4 days ago:
github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415
A reverse proxy won’t help (unless you’re doing authentication with it). A cloudflare tunnel would help, if it requires authentication.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 5 days ago:
For fiction, yeah, that’s true. For nonfiction, this could work pretty well.
I’m still generally opposed to it because it’s using the work of existing voice recording without compensation, though.
- Comment on Acquired HPE DL380 G9 - Questions about what is done for self hosting on them these days 6 days ago:
I use ebay. Not sure what the market is like in Canada.
Proxmox is great. If you ever used vCenter, you should pick it up no problem. It’s just Debian, so stick the installer in and point it at your boot drive.
Unless you have the space and need for a rack, I’d skip it. It’ll run happily no matter where you put it, in any orientation.
If it doesn’t have the iLO license, you might be able to get one from ebay as well. I’ve done that for Dells. Pretty sure it was just an outsourced Dell support tech making a couple bucks by abusing their access to the license generator. Certainly not legal, but it works just fine.
- Comment on Tekken 8 replaces their entire balance team after disastrous Season 2 update 6 days ago:
Investors demand recurring revenue.
- Comment on Using DVD slot for second 3.5" drive? 6 days ago:
They MAY use the little baby SATA connectors. I’d check first.
- Comment on [Opinion] Unending ransomware attacks are a symptom, not the sickness 6 days ago:
It is not legal. Some find ways to do it anyway.