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- Comment on immich v1.127.0 released with manual face tagging feature 17 hours ago:
As usual Hetzner is always a solid choice - their Object storage is more than solid and comparably cheap - Personally I would not transfer to your VPS though as Immicg can get funky when latencies are too high. Just run the cheapest VM there that can take Immich.
Alternatively IONOS is doing a lot of good things as well these days,but they are slightly more expensive m
- Comment on Is it OK for a baby's head to be rolled all the way back on its neck? 18 hours ago:
As you correctly wrote newborns/very small babies heads need to be supported urgently - the head to body ratio of babies is very different from older kids and sadly the neck muscles are not that developed in utero. (Dark note: One of the reasons it was not uncommon - and still happens extremely rarely with underqualified healthcare providers- that newborns were sometimes decapitated when trying to facilitate a forceps birth 70+x years ago) Failing to do so can lead to various injuries, from muscular overextension (painful,can lead to chronic issues), ligament or nerve damage (can paralyse) or even vascular damage. I have seen a kid who suffered a fatal vascular damage from a sudden “falling back” of the head after insufficient support was provided and two more with rather complicated injuries - while these cases are super rare,they happen. (And kids are not all the same. My own kid came out and lifted its head 2h after birth and tried to roll onto its belly before we left hospital. Others take months just for the first thing)
When they get older this becomes less of an issue, but they are still suspectable to another thing: External force and exhaustion. It’s a big difference between a kid sitting in a stroller or being on a flat surface and holding its own head and a kid being forced to stabilise its head against external movement by the carrier moving around, especially over longer periods of time. This can,in some rare cases even lead to the classic “shaken kid” syndrome (where repeated acceleration and deceleration rupture small vessels within babies brain,leading to a often fatal haemorrhage within the skull). I am fairly sure I read a case report once that reported about a case of a kid who suffered this while Mom was jogging with a unsuitable backpack like carrier, but sadly as PubMed is down at the moment (thank you,Orange and Elmo) I can’t find it.
- Comment on Is there an independent model database? 3 days ago:
There has been a NIH 3D model database,but it has become unreliable already for orange reasons. Besides that there aren’t many options beside manifold or plainly hosting your own site (which is not that hard tbh, but makes it hard for others to find,though)
- Comment on Current legal position of European Bambu Lab customers 2 weeks ago:
Yeah,it will come to that. It very much depends on what you look for. Qidi is currently an alternative - amongst others. The other big question is how long BL will take. The longer they take to release the better - simply because the competition then has more time to refine their options.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to 3dprinting@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on Simple home automation that works properly on a RPi 3B 2 weeks ago:
You can also simply copy the current install on a USB stick and boot from there - once you have the SD card running that’s also an option. Tutorial: pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-boot-from-usb/
- Comment on Simple home automation that works properly on a RPi 3B 2 weeks ago:
Besides the specialist PV solutions node red might actually also be an alternative for what you want to achieve - but I also cannot understand the issues with HA. Is it possible that your SD card is slow/detectiv?
- Comment on Why do the femcels and the incels not.... date each other? 2 weeks ago:
Possibly they think of themselves as unlovable,are so incompetent in relationships (any, not just a partner/SO)? Or because they just want a slave with a vagina&a silent mouth attached.
When I was younger a friend of mine, for some reason I will never understand, fell for a Incel. They knew each other from Uni. She was/is cute, intelligent, witty, definitely not someone who is unable to find another partner. But wherever loves falls,right. She basically woed him for half a year,was treated shitty (dates ignored, multiple ghosting phases with idiotic reasons like “he didn’t like what dress she wore in class”,etc). The later confessed that they actually had sex once and it was beyond horrible because he literally told her he did not care for her wellbeing (not pleasure)at all.
After that she thankfully decided to pursue other options. He had a long online rant about how she is a slut for leaving him, etc.
(While our friendship didn’t last I know that she is happily married with kids now)
- Comment on As Sony exits, Verbatim doubles down on optical media — stable supply of discs is a "top priority" despite shrinking market 2 weeks ago:
In theory maybe? But…I don’t know why one should.
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s sounds solid. Just make sure your next of kin know where to look and that there is something to look for.
- Comment on As Sony exits, Verbatim doubles down on optical media — stable supply of discs is a "top priority" despite shrinking market 2 weeks ago:
External HDs are good for short term backup - I do use them for that myself.
But they are not suitable for long term backup, they are susceptible to damage, sector errors,bit rod and interference.
If you leave them unpowered for longer times the chances that the mechanical components are gonna fail are actually increased.
Some of these issues can be reduced,but never fully.
Additionally there are ransomware viruses that directly attack them - they intentionally encrypt the backups first when the drives are connected before they attack the live data. And in at least one case I know of the attackers bricked the HD firmware.
Therefore for long term storage of really important things WORM (write once read many) media is to be preferred - even if the attackers can access the disk for some reason they cannot alter the once written data.
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 2 weeks ago:
Ah, a Kiwi. Say hello to your sheep’s from me. (Sorry,former WA resident here, couldn’t resist)
But yeah, we are using exactly that model - and it’s currently only 20 NZD less from what I pay wholesale in Europe for it. So it seems like a pretty decent price.
The drive itself is solid. We currently have around 10, maybe 15, at our clients and it works without any hassle.
I personally recommend to store the disk’s offsite(I store them in a locked box in a bank vault) and some of my clients choose to store another drive there to be extra safe,but I personally don’t see the point.
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 2 weeks ago:
3-2-1 is the minimal consensus and not recommended anymore for everything you need to reliably have access to after a long time - the fact that some ransomware viruses intentionally have a very time they are laying low to decrypt old and rarely used files is one of the main reasons. Healthcare, finance, taxation, accounting, etc. are all sectors that heavily rely on WORM media and long term tape storage.
You are right that a spinning disk often can work for 10 years - but there is a reason they are exchange earlier in a professional setting. Not all of them will. And you were talking about cold storage disks. This is something even the manufacturers do not recommend - for a reason.
- Comment on As Sony exits, Verbatim doubles down on optical media — stable supply of discs is a "top priority" despite shrinking market 2 weeks ago:
Personally I store all “Very important data” on it - things I really don’t want to loose even if my data storage at home and my cloud storage gets compromised. Among them:
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Photos of life events. Wedding, photos of the kids, photos of relatives that are now deceased, etc.
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Important documents. Birth certificates, copies of IDs, passports, insurance documents, degrees and certificates, banking/taxation/accounting documents, bills for the important stuff like major renovations, the expensive IT stuff, etc.*
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Backup of important files (for me Uni files for my lectures, some work files, backup of the password DBs, plans for the house, a tutorial how to receive files from the cloud storage, decryption keys, etc.)
(*: This is more a theoretical choice - as I can get 100GB media for the same price as the 50GB I currently simply copy the full paperless file storage. But the script normally only copies these. They are flagged with a custom field in paperless)
I do not use addition to the storage,so no “these files are new since the last copy” but I simply make a full backup of these files every time (usually three times a year). This reduces the risk of one backup being compromised - very likely I only fall back 4 month which is tolerable. The discs itself are stored in a locked box in a bank vault a bit further away. I have to go there a few times a year anyway,so it’s not hassle. (And they have great coffee). The box costs me 50€ a year and has enough room for 50 years of M Disks and a few extra items.
Anything taxation related must be stored for 10 years even by private individuals here,so there is that.
My customers (smaller health care organisations, e.g. your fellow neighbourhood dentist or GP) usually store patient data and accounting data on them. They need to store them long term (up to 30 years) for legal reasons, additionally they don’t want a opposing lawyer to later tell them “you have manipulated the data”. Having multiple copies that cannot be manipulated reduces that claim to “you manipulated before you stored it” and we have other ways to fight that.
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- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 2 weeks ago:
You need a designated M Disc capable burner,yes. (Not generic BDXL,there are slight differences) There are a few on the market though - they cost around 100-150 bucks usually.(In theory you can use a regular writer sometimes - I know people who do that,but why risk that?) I usually recommend the verbatim to my clients,they are dirt cheap and work flawlessly so far.
For reading the discs any regular data-capabale blue ray disk drive will do.
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 2 weeks ago:
This is actually terrible advice. WORM media exists for a reason and telling someone with a mere 3-2-1 he will never loose data is absolutely irresponsible.
Neither is it a good idea to use regular hard-disk for offsite-cold storage. A really really bad idea.
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 2 weeks ago:
You need a designated M Disc capable burner,yes. There are a few on the market though - they cost around 100-150 bucks usually.(In theory you can use a regular writer sometimes - I know people who do that,but why risk that?) I usually recommend the verbatim to my clients,they are dirt cheap and work flawlessly so far.
For reading the discs any regular data-capabale blue ray disk drive will do.
- Comment on As Sony exits, Verbatim doubles down on optical media — stable supply of discs is a "top priority" despite shrinking market 3 weeks ago:
So basically no,you haven’t.
- Comment on As Sony exits, Verbatim doubles down on optical media — stable supply of discs is a "top priority" despite shrinking market 3 weeks ago:
Got any evidence for that claim?
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 3 weeks ago:
Currently the only solution for a consumer are M-Disc Blue rays. They are currently the only “write once read many” media available that are preferable in these types of situations.
The media is comparable cheap - you can safe your amount of data for around 80-90USD/€ initially(or less for more but smaller discs) and then pay around 10$/€ per year for the new amount of data.
The chances that in 20 years someone is still able to read them are fairly high - there are numerous businesses that are using these disc as WORM media to backup important data on a medium that a opposing lawyer later cannot claim “was manipulated”.
If you write on them unencrypted there should be no problem of writing on them. Additionally they do not have issues with byte rot,etc.
- Comment on As Sony exits, Verbatim doubles down on optical media — stable supply of discs is a "top priority" despite shrinking market 3 weeks ago:
M-Disc/Archive Blue ray discs are currently pretty much unrivaled if one needs WORM(write once read many) storage for important data.
Anything cloud is an issue in that regards, while a few options exist that somewhat imitate WORM to comply with regulations they are often expensive, harder to maintain and, if long term storage is required, prohibitivly expensive.
The next option, Tandberg RDX needs a far less popular writer, it’s WORM media is far more expensive, far more sensitive towards exterior influences and it’s much harder to make sure you will be able to read the data in 20 years.
LTO is nice, the tapes are somewhat cheap but the drives are extremely expensive - far to expensive for smaller businesses or consumers.
(And please for the love of god, normal exterior HDs,etc. are NOT backup media for long term storage, especially not WORM- which is important in times of ransomware attacks)
So in the end verbatim would be an absolute idiot to destroy this market. I work with a lot of smaller healthcare facilities and they all exclusively work with them - they routinely burn their data on a M-Disc that is then stored in a secure location, as they all need to provide their patient records for at least 10, mostly for 15, in some cases for 30 or more years. The doctors can literally go to jail if they do not comply with that.(And getting hacked or your building burning down is not an excuse)
As a CEO of a small company we also need to retain certain tax and accounting data for 10 years, some for 20 years. And even as a individual I have some stuff I legally must retain for 10 years.
And of course photos of important life events and some documents (insurance, mortgage) are also something I don’t want to loose if the house burns down. Therefore the important stuff gets burned to a M-Disc three times a year and then locked into a bank vault quite a bit away.
- Comment on As Sony exits, Verbatim doubles down on optical media — stable supply of discs is a "top priority" despite shrinking market 3 weeks ago:
None of that is relevant to a self burned M/Archive BD
- Comment on NAS Hardware selection 3 weeks ago:
If you are really sure about the disk space requirements you can easily get one of the endless mini PCs with a N100 or a small Intel on it and chuck two NVMe’s in it and let these run as RAID1.
Have a decent backup plan,though.
- Comment on NAS Hardware selection 3 weeks ago:
I really really would love them…if only they would allow ECC RAM and more RAM in total. Then they would have built a killer device.
- Comment on Non-US alternatives to digital services 3 weeks ago:
And then your house burns down,you get robbed or the cops come and take your devices away.
- Comment on Patch this Bish! 3 weeks ago:
Can we rather make the kernel more stable before we change the design? These instabilities cause the whole process to hang itself up or terminate FAR to often!
- Comment on Non-US alternatives to digital services 3 weeks ago:
And your local database is encrypted?
Vaultwarden is selfhosted and audited.
Besides: Not everyone wants to selfhost and not everyone should self host.
- Comment on Non-US alternatives to digital services 3 weeks ago:
Posteo is another alternative for Mail that a lot of people overlook.(And far more “real privacy” than fucking Proton)
Bitwarden sadly still is a US company and while it hosts in EU as well, some might not think this is enough. In that case Vaultwarden can be selfhosted easily.
It is not that much work to actually get rid of most possibly unreliable US services,but it’s far more work to get other people to switch as not all services are interoperable yet…
- Comment on Non-US alternatives to digital services 3 weeks ago:
Hetzner is rock solid in my experience (and I run multiple server with them both for private and business use). I really can’t complain.
I have my S3 backups at Ionos these days, they are also fairly large, only marginally more expensive and so far it’s working well. Their cloud/VPS service (the proper one,not the consumer one) is also decent and offers a few (rarely needed) options that Hetzner doesn’t have.
- Submitted 3 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 12 comments