Onomatopoeia
@Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
- Comment on [deleted] 13 hours ago:
Yes.
- Comment on designing the strongest 3d printed hook competition - Tom Stanton 2nd channel 1 day ago:
Neat! Thanks for the insight
- Comment on 1 day ago:
No, it wasn’t.
It was to speed access to data. Unless you have some evidence the researchers who work with electromechanics at the time were thinking “how can we replace humans”, rather than “how can we represent 80 columns of data electromechanically?”
No need for this nonsensical hyperbole.
- Comment on designing the strongest 3d printed hook competition - Tom Stanton 2nd channel 2 days ago:
Maybe, maybe not.
Solid objects aren’t always stronger, strangely enough. I’m no mechanical engineer, so I can’t explain it. I assume it has to do with how stress is tranferred.
- Comment on Best no install ceiling light? 2 days ago:
This is the best answer - “cone of shame” (haha, love that description) lamps in each corner, with dimmable bulbs.
- Comment on Backing up easily 4 days ago:
What are you trying to guard against with backups? It sounds like your greatest concern is data loss from hardware failure.
The 3-2-1 approach exists because it addresses the different concerns about data loss: hardware failures, accidental deletion, physical disaster.
That drive in your safe isn’t a good backup - drives fail just as often when offline as online (I believe they fail more often when powered off, but I don’t have data to support that). That safe isn’t waterproof, and it’s fire resistance is designed to protect paper, not hard drives.
If this data is important enough to back up, then it’s worth having an off site copy of your backup. Backblaze is one way, but there are a number of cloud based storages that will work (Hetznet, etc).
As to your Windows/Linux concern, just have a consistent data storage location, treat that location as authoritative, and perform backups from there. For example - I have a server, a NAS, and an always-on external drive as part of my data duplication. The server is authoritative, laptops and phones continuously sync to it via Syncthing or Resilio Sync, and it duplicates to the NAS and external drives on a schedule. I never touch the NAS or external drives. The server also has a cloud backup.
- Comment on Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC 4 days ago:
From a cooling standpoint, you probably don’t want go any smaller than a Small Form Factor desktop. These are large enough to have a proper heatsink and fan on the cpu, enough space for a dedicated video card, have the motherboard connections for a card, large enough power supply, and can support a case fan.
Mini desktops have minimal cooling capacity, definitely no case fan.
For example, I run a Dell SFF (OptiPlex 7050) as a server for virtual machines, Jellyfin host, file server, and media converter. It’s an older machine with an 80 watt power supply, no case fan, and the stock cooler/fan is fortunately well designed.
That stock cooler also evacuates the case, but can’t move enough air to keep the large drive I installed at reasonable temps. Adding a case fan dropped the drive temps by more than 20F.
Without the sizeable cpu cooler and it’s fan, there’s no way to keep the cpu cool when doing anything more than basic desktop functions. A mini pc would quickly overheat.
- Comment on DNA cassette tapes could solve global data storage problems 5 days ago:
That’s how you put the plague in plagiarism.
Fine, dammit, take your upvote! Haha
- Comment on Bosch dishwasher needs app for certain features 5 days ago:
Surveillance is too tempting, and the idiots of the world keep buying this crap.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Holy shit, that’s insane…1992? Back then setting up a drive meant configuring interleave and some other stuff.
- Comment on Sources to purchase mp3s? 1 week ago:
Wow, that says a lot for Bandcamp
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes 1 week ago:
There’s and endless supply of guides for ripping.
On Windows just use Exact Audio Copy - It can pull all the track info from multiple sources. I forget what I used on Linux.
- Comment on Google should have called it JIF, not WebP 1 week ago:
Thanks for that link, I’ve long wondered the origin of OK!
- Comment on Why is it just ChoMo s have their identity and address released to the media? I get for the kids but would also like to know if I am living next to a murderer or serial meth maker or whatever? 1 week ago:
A type of document?
Now I’m really confused.
- Comment on Why is it just ChoMo s have their identity and address released to the media? I get for the kids but would also like to know if I am living next to a murderer or serial meth maker or whatever? 1 week ago:
Wtf if a ChoMo?
- Comment on where did we go wrong 1 week ago:
Obesity in the 50’s was more like 10-15%, today it’s closer to 35%, but 40 is close enough.
Interestingly, the spike started in the mid-1980’s, timed too closely to the low-fat craze to not make me suspicious, especially since that adds up metabolically.
- Comment on Does it make sense that a fridge relay start winding would get only 20 volts from the thermostat? 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t expect a transformer anywhere, I was just shooting in the dark. That would make no sense to me, but I’ve seen crazy stuff in appliances.
A better test may be to forcibly energize the relay so it closes. If it closes and the motor starts, the problem is in the thermostat. If it closes but the motor doesn’t start, the relay is the problem.
- Comment on Humans can't consent to reading. 2 weeks ago:
Damn, so presbyopia is leveling up!?
- Comment on Humans can't consent to reading. 2 weeks ago:
Haha, this joke goes back at least 50 years. Nice.
- Comment on Does it make sense that a fridge relay start winding would get only 20 volts from the thermostat? 2 weeks ago:
Is there a step-down transformer anywhere? That relay isn’t big enough to have such a transformer or switching power supply (I don’t think).
It would be strange (to me) to build everything for 220, including the t-stat, but not the start winding. That would then require either a transformer or switching power supply for that one thing.
The thermostat should be easy enough to test - you know where the supply is, and which wires energize this relay. Test voltage at the relay when the thermostat closes.
If something is dropping 220 to 20v, surely it’s got to be heating up?
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 2 weeks ago:
It’s not required, it just seems required to non-technical people (I know, potato/potato, it’s effectively required).
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 2 weeks ago:
Linux is servers.
Hell, VMware migrated to a Linux base a while back, and with their new exorbitant pricing, large environments are switching to things like Proxmox.
The next ten years, VMware will be second string virtualization, even in data centers.
I’m not sure what’s going to happen, but there was a “BIOS War” in the 80’s,when IBM wouldn’t release their BIOS code, so other devs reverse engineered it. No reason why that couldn’t happen again.
- Comment on Pi NAS for multi-location backups 2 weeks ago:
Sync is not backup.
Let’s repeat that - sync is not backup.
If your sync job syncs an unintentional deletion, the file is deleted, everywhere.
Backup stores versions of files based on the definitions you provide. A common backup schedule for a home system mat be monthly full, Daily incremental. In this way you have multiple versions of any file that’s changed.
With sync you only have replicants of one file that can be lost through the sync.
- Comment on Does anybody else feel like Linkwarden is very resource intensive. 2 weeks ago:
Sure I can.
You’re complaining about needing 4gb of RAM on a virtualized platform in 2025, when 4gb of ram was common on a laptop (which is heavily space constrained) thirteen years ago.
It’s a fair comparison.
- Comment on Does anybody else feel like Linkwarden is very resource intensive. 2 weeks ago:
And?
VPS it’s trivial to have the ram you need. My laptop had 2 memory slots. A VPS has how many? Oh, yea, it’s virtualized. 🤦🏼
- Comment on Does anybody else feel like Linkwarden is very resource intensive. 2 weeks ago:
Er, phones have had 4gb for years.
2gb for a system… My 2012 laptop has 4gb.
- Comment on Backup/Server Options - is Syncthing / Nextcloud really the go? 2 weeks ago:
One advantage of Syncthing over smbsync is it can use any network connection, not just LAN.
You can configure to only use LAN, or even specific LANs if needed (identified by SSID). I have a few sync jobs that work this way.
- Comment on Backup/Server Options - is Syncthing / Nextcloud really the go? 2 weeks ago:
As others have said, sync isn’t backup.
It may be part of a backup plan, however.
I use Syncthing on my mobile devices to keep data created on the devices synchronized to my server at home. Things like photos sync to home over any connection, while I sync other stuff only over wifi. Syncthing-Fork allows you to set these conditions on a per-folder-pair basis.
That server becomes my authoritative box for any data. All that data is then mirrored on a schedule to 2 other systems at home (a NAS and a large drive on another box).
The main server also has a cloud backup which runs continuously.
So I have 3 local copies of data to recover from if I have a hardware failure, and a cloud backup.
I find tools like Syncthing and Resilio are good for synchronization, especially mobile devices. But between full-pc-OS devices, I just use native tools (scripts and schedules) because I don’t want synchronization, but specific patterns of copying/mirroring, etc.
I do use Resilio for ad-hoc access to almost any file on my server, since it’s Conditional Sync feature permits me to connect with a mobile device from anywhere and sync only the selected files. So I can grab a movie or TV show, Resilio will sync it and I can watch it once the sync is complete.
- Comment on Making a custom pc case for my next home server 2 weeks ago:
Oof, moving plastic filament rubbing on plastic guides. Sounds like static waiting to happen.
I never thought of that.
- Comment on The day Return became Enter 2 weeks ago:
It was probably designed like that because line printers were the thing in the early days of Windows.