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- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up and how long? 5 days ago:
Recently obtained a free circa-2017 mac mini which I installed Linux on, to create a docker hosting environment. Current have Jellyfin, SearXNG, and Forgejo.
My much older NAS serves as the NFS drive for the Jellyfin media (formerly, I ran Plex directly on the NAS, but this was slow/unreliable as the NAS has only dual 1Ghz ARM cores).
One of the drives in the NAS died Thursday night, but no serious issue as its RAID 1. I wonder if the new load on it pushed it over the edge. (Also, I wonder if I could use the mac minis SSD as a sort of cache in front of the NAS, to reduce wear on it, if that would even help…)
Luckily I had some gift cards from recycling old tablets and phones, so I could get a replacement drive at minimal cost. I went with a cheap WD Blue drive instead of the 2.5x more expensive Seagate IronWolf drives I had used in the past. We will see how that fares over the next few years.
Upon replacing the drive yesterday, I found the one that failed was a 2017 mfg date, so its life was 8 years (from when I initially populated the NAS). The other drive was replaced in 2021 (but it actually failed in 2020, I just left the NAS unused for a year at that time, so it had a life of 3 years). Some insight into the life span of the Iron Wolf drives.
Things I’d like to add soon:
- kiwix instance
- normalize my ebook/magazine collection
- setup to download my youtube subscriptions to Jellyfin’s media directory so I can avoid the youtube app/website
- something for music to ditch that subscription
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Looking Ahead to 2026 4 weeks ago:
They would love if they can get you hooked on a monthly subscription for human thought
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 1 month ago:
🤷♂️ ironfox exists
- Comment on SoftBank sells its entire stake in Nvidia for $5.83 billion 2 months ago:
They did the same in 2019 (note the date on the article)
- Comment on Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models. 4 months ago:
It is possible to restore the old notepad.
I didn’t include a link because I could not find a non-spammy one, but a search finds a few. I did it on my work PC.
And switching to a FOSS OS is probably preferable, but that’s not always possible.
- Comment on An AI analyst made 30 years of stock picks – and outperformed human investors by a ‘stunning’ degree 7 months ago:
It “made” the money based on a backtest. It means nothing.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 8 months ago:
The $ revenue share to creators per video view has dropped, even though the percentage of Google’s ad revenue shared with the creator has remained the same. So to me this means Google is earning less per video view. (That could also be just a result of the ad market in general collapsing, eg advertisers just pay less)
Also, Google has added new requirements to get the video share. You need to post new videos at a regular cadence, or they kick you out–even if your old videos are still getting views. (began being enforced in 2023, I think). Its another way they can keep their revenue numbers looking OK by cutting a cost associated with older videos.
Google has also escalated their efforts to make it more difficult to view content without also viewing the ads.
So maybe its wishful thinking, but I think they are feeling the squeeze.
Unfortunately unlike the reddit or twitter situations its significantly harder to accumulate enough fresh video content to attract the views necessary to get the ball rolling and make a shift away from YouTube.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 8 months ago:
Adblock/revanced are working. Google’s ad revenue is getting squeezed and so they need to shoehorn more ads everywhere to get the same revenue levels, since so many people never see the ads.
Keep using them. You’re making business really difficult for scummy Google.
- Comment on Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages 8 months ago:
Amazons “genius” packing bots will throw a tiny fragile thing with a medium size heavy thing in a box 16x too big along with a shred of packing material.
Can’t wait to have that same “genius” applied to the actual delivery itself.
Seriously, I make maybe 5 or 6 Amazon purchases per year. I would say at least 50% of those disappoint in some way: the item was misleadingly listed, or it was damaged in shipping, or it doesn’t arrive when the promised. I really don’t find it convenient at all.