cenzorrll
@cenzorrll@piefed.ca
- Comment on Help for jbod 1 week ago:
For a little perspective, if you have 7200 RPM HDDs, they each only have a throughput of about 1.5 Gbps. USB 3.0 is 5 Gbps, so you can have 3 drives attached without maxing out a single USB connection, and that’s the older 3.0, not any of the newer USB specifications that can go up to 20 gbps, and this isn’t including thunderbolt specs. If this data is mostly sent over the network you’ll never see any impact from this unless you have a 10Gb home network. Getting things onto the drives might take a little longer than a direct connection, but if storage is more of a concern (I’m assuming it is, since you have HDDs instead of SSDs) that’s a perfectly fine trade off in my mind.
- Comment on Microsoft once tried to cut Windows 11 RAM usage, install size by 20%, now it’s trying again in 2026 1 week ago:
If it worked out, the idle Windows 11 RAM usage would’ve been around 4.8GB
That’s still a lot
- Comment on Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I miss the days of making my own mixes, sharing music with friends, etc.
I recently ripped a bunch of CDs and one of the batches was my folio in my car. I do not fucking miss having to handle CDs. The slightest scratch on the foil and it’s done, scratches on the plastic and it’s done. You had a hour and some minutes max that you could pack into one is you didn’t have an mp3 capable player.
I love getting music on CDs, I love listening to an album straight through and the hidden song at the end coming after a bunch of silence, and making a mix that flows like a God. But it’s so much nicer having all of my music ripped on my server.
- Comment on Self Hosting for Privacy - Importance of Owning your own Modem/Router? 2 weeks ago:
You’re ISP probably provides some overpriced really crap hardware that they probably have a back door to, that I’m also not about to screw around with. I’ve always had a router behind their modem/router combo for many reasons, the first being that I have had a 100 ft Ethernet cable since 2005 that let’s me put my router where I want, I can place my wifi where it works best, not just within 6-10 feet of wherever someone 20 years ago decided to drill a hole. Second is because a ddwrt router is so much better than anything you’ll get from your provider, and you can find pretty good compatible ones on eBay or at your local thrift store for cheap.
I’ve always begrudgingly purchased rather than rented from my provider because after a year or so it is usually paid for. So far I’ve purchased four modems over almost 20 years so it’s worked out for me. As for the device itself, I don’t trust it, but I’ll still set some firewall rules just because. I have my router behind it where I do the real stuff. If I’m ever given a device that I need to connect for some sort of monitoring, like my solar panels or something like that, it can connect to my ISPs crap and do whatever sketchy shit it’s gonna do.
- Comment on Any good selfhosted instant messaging? 2 weeks ago:
XMPP is ancient. So is email, the internet, and the wheel.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I’ve moved my homelab twice because it became stable, I really liked the services it was running, and I didn’t want to disturb the last lab*cough*prod server.
My current homelab will be moar containers. I’m sure I’ll push it to prod instead of changing the IP address and swapping name tags this time.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Hmmm. My pi{VPN,hole,dhcp,HA} has a little bit of overhead left…
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Saturday morning: “Incus and podman seem interesting. I bet I could swap everything over while the family is out this afternoon”
Sunday evening: “Dad, when will the lights work again?”
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
“Damn, I’ve got this Debian server shit down. I wonder how an opensuse server would work out” *installs tumbleweed *
True story
- Comment on Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape 4 weeks ago:
And yet I need 2GB of free ram and a 4 core processor to browse the web.
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 4 weeks ago:
If your computer has 4+ cores/threads and 8GB or more of ram, I’d set up a virtual machine to test it out.
Linux itself works just fine for anything, but it’s different. There’s a learning curve and you might find that the thing you need to do immediately has a different process than what you’re used to, or needs some setting up first. There’s also always formatting differences between word and libreoffice writer (same can be said for different versions of word), and some higher level excel things that aren’t easy or not possible in calc.
- Comment on How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS? 5 weeks ago:
You put that with everything else similar into a folder, which is backed up. Mine is called “Files”. If there’s something in there that I don’t need backed up. It still gets backed up. If there’s something very large in there that I don’t need backed up, it gets removed in one of my “oh shit these backups are huge” purges.
- Comment on I've probably seen more naked ladies than my entire bloodline combined 5 weeks ago:
Also, mammals evolved around 300 million years ago, and being generous, clothes were first used 3 million years ago. So the number of generations of your ancestors who didn’t see tiddies everyday is a rounding error to the number who did. And they were ALL successful *vaguely waves in your direction*
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 5 weeks ago:
That’s all handled with adding the
x-systemd.automountoption to my fstab entry. If it disconnects it’s unmounted, when it’s available again it mounts when something tries to access it.I have occasionally needed to restart some services if they didn’t like getting disconnected, but as far as mounting goes it’s handled pretty smoothly with that option.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 5 weeks ago:
I brought my 2003 laptop back to life for shits and giggles recently. It’s made me realize how bloated software has become. It’s still just as usable as it was 20 years ago when you remove all the fancy crap and use programs designed for tasks rather than living in a web browser. Sure its not fast, but once I replaced the spinning drive with an ssd, it became pretty damn usable in a modern day scenario. I really thought I would just upgrade as far as I could for fun, then slap an old archived distro on there from my college days for some good old PTSD/nostalgia. But it’s actually usable so I occasionally pull it out and do stuff on it. I’m ready to slap jaunty jackalope on it and relive going to my uni’s library to write a 10 page research paper thats due the next day, but it’s still ready to rock in modern times.
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 5 weeks ago:
Do you mean a hang on boot when trying to mount? For that I use the
nofailoption in fstab. I also use thex-systemd.automountoption so if something is not mounted for whatever reason, it tries to mount it when something attempts to access it. - Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 1 month ago:
I have a wait-for-ping service that pings nas A, once it gets a successful response it tries to mount.
I lifted it from a time when I needed to ping my router because Debian had a network-online service bug. I adapted it to my nas because the network-online issue eventually got fixed and mounting my shares became the next biggest issue.
It seems like this person might have grabbed that same fix for what I eventually did because our files are…oddly almost exactly the same.
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 1 month ago:
I’m not great at any init things, but systemd has made my home server stuff relatively seamless. I have two NASs that I mount, and my server starts up WAY faster than both of them, and I (stupidly) have one mount within the other. So I set requirements that nasB doesn’t mount until nasA has, then docker doesn’t start until after nasB is mounted. Works way better than going in after 5 minutes and remounting and restarting.
Of course, I did just double my previous storage on A, so I could migrate all of Bs stuff back. But that would require a small amount of effort.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The indicator turns into a “manager’s special”, no need to pay an employee to slap them on anymore
- Comment on Fairphone 5 bricked by faulty Android 15 update 1 month ago:
This is the event that happened last year.
- Comment on Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead 1 month ago:
They’re saying that even when it bursts and there’s all these components laying around, they’ll still be useless for consumers.
- Comment on Interview with a ‘Just use a VPS’ bro (OpenClaw version) 1 month ago:
…"We don’t just dump production applications in $HOME like crazy people”
Hey, I don’t dump them in home, I test them in home and never move them.
- Comment on Should I be using Debian? 1 month ago:
It sounds more like you want to have fun distro hopping, and believe me: I can tell you from experience that distro hopping isn’t fun if you have to rely on that machine.
This is 95% of my use case for VMs. Want to check out opensuse? Set up a VM and try to do something in it.
- Comment on Should I be using Debian? 1 month ago:
Which is what makes it an excellent server distro. And also why I don’t tend to use it on anything with a screen.
The most messing around I’ve done with my server after setting it up is update to trixie. I think I might have had to reset it two or three times in the past 6 months for the reason of “I didn’t feel like actually troubleshooting”
- Comment on Installing **self-hostable** services on a cloud server isn't self-hosting ??? 2 months ago:
I can agree with this. My internet is trash, and I refuse to go with the faster provider in the area on principle (they took municipal funds to bring faster internet in the mid 2000s and didn’t do a thing until over a decade later), so I can’t feasibly share anything outside of my household users. I’m seriously considering setting up some hosted services if I can’t get fiber when I’ve nailed down my setup. I’d rather host everything at home, but I’d much rather offer my relatives access to something that isn’t selling their info to anyone with a checkbook. If I’m maintaining it and I’m the one who can accidentally lose everyone’s stuff with a bad command, I’m self-hosting it.
- Comment on Lab anxiety 2 months ago:
“Decontaminated vacuum chamber to prevent future false positives”
“Glassware temperature limits tested and confirmed”
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 2 months ago:
I’ve had my neighbor get their sewer line worked on that somehow resulted in making my toilets explode with sewer gas and shit particles.
The lid stays down.
- Comment on Reverse Proxy: a single point of failure in my lab 2 months ago:
Our new dog chewed up the Ethernet cable from my modem to my router while I was at work (well, commuting to) the other day. She found the only exposed 6 inches of it and went to town. Everything runs through the router. I had also just re-done some music library file structures and reset my downloaded songs right before leaving, assuming it would queue up and fill up the cache as I went about my day. Something I hadn’t done for over two years, but I wanted a music library so we could put calming music on for the pup that wouldn’t end up in my carefully curated library.
I have my music app set to pre-cache 10 songs, and ended up with 12 songs downloaded, so somewhere around 5-10 minutes after I started playing music on my commute was when the tasty cable was discovered. That was an excruciating day, listening to the same 12 songs over and over again.
Lesson learned about single points of failure in a new way. The worst part was I got a message about it from my fiancé when I got to work, so I knew what happened and there was nothing I could do about it. I just got to look at the world’s strongest firewall all day long.
- Comment on Snitches get switches 2 months ago:
Some of it, at least with plants, is that the invasive species has taken over a niche of the native species. So in removing it, you alter the balance of the ecosystem. Native birds in an area may be at more risk than a native bush due to a loss in habitat, so it’s better to leave an invasive bush if it provides that need for the bird
- Comment on Findroid v1.0.0 with a complete redesign is here 2 months ago:
Yes, and works on android 6, which is getting to be quite rare these days.