Onomatopoeia
@Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
- Comment on Hotel review sites should include a section where reviewers can share the internet speed 20 hours ago:
Guess what, my work doesn’t have network performance issues, and I don’t have network performance issues.
Guest networks at hotels are notoriously shitty, stop excusing it by creating a strawman.
- Comment on once you start to realize that incels are right as a non-white, you see why Elliot rodger did it. 1 day ago:
What are these axes that aren’t even labelled? I have no idea what this is supposed to be showing since it’s obtuse as fuck
- Comment on In order to be allowed to drive, you don't just have to promise to pay if you hit someone, you have to pay in advance in case you hit someone 2 days ago:
Rarely.
Most are crashes caused by someone fucking up.
Some are caused by things like medical issues - those would be accidents. Or a rock falling off a hillside into your car, tire blowout, etc.
- Comment on Options to Expand Sata HDD Drives on a Lenovo Computer 3 days ago:
I use a similar Dell Optiplex 7000 series.
It boots from the NVME, with an 8TB 3.5 disc for data, and a 500GB SD for my VMs.
I use a splitter on the 12v power line for both of the drives. It’s fine.
This box only has an 80w power supply, and with both those drives hooked up it draws 20w at idle, and peaks at 70w when converting multiple videos simultaneously.
- Comment on Is self-hosting on personal computer practical? 4 days ago:
I self host on a 5 year old Dell Optiplex Small Form Factor desktop.
I also have a Raspberry Pi, which has about 1/16 the performance of the desktop - Pi can be used for all sorts of stuff.
- Comment on The only science fiction in 1984 by Orwell is that there is a drug that could make you "Happy" 4 days ago:
Someone’s never had X
- Comment on Does smelling your food while you cook it make it taste bland? 5 days ago:
Get in line!
- Comment on ISO Homelab Power Saving Methods 5 days ago:
Yep.
My Pi is about 8 watts. Really hard to beat.
The SFF started at 12w, but swapping out the data drive for a much larger one pushed it up 5w. And now with 2 VMs always running (PiHole and a Windows VM), it hovers at 20w.
The ancient NAS (Drobo) sits at about 15w.
- Comment on ISO Homelab Power Saving Methods 5 days ago:
The number one thing you can do, by orders of magnitude, is to start with power-friendly hardware.
For example, my previous server was an old gaming machine. It’s lowest idle power consumption was 80 watts. That was with running an OS that permitted heavy power reduction control, and enabling every power saving feature in the BIOS.
Compare that to my 2019 Dell Optiplex Small-Form-Factor desktop I’m running as a server. The power supply is rated for 80 watts, MAX. It idles at 20w, peaks at about 70w when converting multiple videos simultaneously. This with an 8 TB enterprise drive for data.
So 1/4 the power draw when idle, where it spends perhaps 90%+ of its time. Even things like Resilio Sync and Syncthing don’t significantly raise CPU time.
There’s nothing in heavier hardware you could tune to get down to 20w.
- Comment on [Help] Improving HDD storage setup for personal server 1 week ago:
That’s not data redundancy - there’s still only one copy of your data.
Those are mitigations against loss of data due to loss of parity.
There’s still only ONE copy of your data.
- Comment on [Help] Improving HDD storage setup for personal server 1 week ago:
Fine.
Pull 1 drive and see how redundant your data is while it’s resilvering.
RAID is NOT data redundancy.
- Comment on It is theoretically possible to constantly travel so that it is perpetually daytime wherever you are 1 week ago:
*ACU
- Comment on [Help] Improving HDD storage setup for personal server 1 week ago:
RAID isn’t data redundancy, it’s an array of drives combined to form a single logical storage pool. It solves the problem of needing a single storage pool latter than the available drives. As such, it’s very sensitive to loss of a single drive.
At your storage size requirements (2 TB), RAID is unnecessary today.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 1 week ago:
Or, be an adult and adjust it as you need.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 1 week ago:
Having dogs solved the problem in my house
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
*asterisk
- Comment on NAS decision paralysis 1 week ago:
I disagree with cold backup drives.
In my experience, cold drives fail more often than warm drives. This is why all my data replication is always watm.
All backup solutions should be regulator tested, otherwise you don’t know if you have a backup.
- Comment on The skillful wielding of sadism sates an innate desire for hierarchical order like an evolutionary husbandry. 1 week ago:
So, yes
- Comment on NAS decision paralysis 1 week ago:
Others have mentioned backup, I’m going to reiterate that.
I have an (old) NAS that franky I don’t trust to not die. Then again, anything candidate, so it’s just one component of my data duplication.
I also have my server which is authoritative for all data, which is then duplicated (on schedules) to the NAS and 2 external drives, so I have 4 local copies.
All mobile devices sync important data to my server.
Power My NAS idles about 15w. It’s 5 drives, so honestly that’s quite low and tells us it spins down drives.
My server idles at 20w, using NVME as the boot drive, a large data drive, and an SSD for virtual machines.
Before this my server was an old gaming desktop that idled around 100w.
- Comment on Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day 1 week ago:
feels like a day should be one daylight period and one night period, but it’s currently a daylight period and two half nights.
Only to you.
In day to day conversation, when someone says “I slept like shit last night”, we all know what that means.
- Comment on Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day 1 week ago:
Then it wouldn’t be 6am
- Comment on Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day 1 week ago:
If you say night of the 5th, that will mean the time from sunset to midnight on the fifth.
After that it’s morning/pre-dawn of the 6th.
This isn’t new or controversial.
- Comment on It’s called CAPITALIST PROPAGANDA 1 week ago:
And Capitalist is a pejorative
- Comment on The skillful wielding of sadism sates an innate desire for hierarchical order like an evolutionary husbandry. 1 week ago:
Nah, ChatGPT would be more intelligible.
- Comment on MIT just made aluminum 5x stronger with 3D printing 1 week ago:
Cool, thanks!
- Comment on MIT just made aluminum 5x stronger with 3D printing 1 week ago:
Is it just printed, or does it get annealed afterwards (this is a common 3D approach with metal powders - sintering)
- Comment on Anyone heard of barrel plugs with magnet adapters? 1 week ago:
I’d extend the cord and add a break-away somewhere else (strongly attached), removing the strain point from the barrel.
- Comment on Holiday Upgrade Disasters 1 week ago:
Oh, agreed.
There’s some other stuff at play with the minis (shared family photos, backup to each other, etc) that I’m going to use as an enticement to get them to learn to use these tools.
Once they learn that, I can slip in some other things, piecemeal, depending on what each person clicks with.
- Comment on Holiday Upgrade Disasters 1 week ago:
To be fair, you’re talking about root, which is always tricky.
I run rooted Pixels, and so far updates haven’t been a problem.
So far…
- Comment on I feel like half the neighbourhood is on fire and everyone is carrying on like everything is normal 1 week ago:
The world has always been on fire.
You should really study history for context.