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- Comment on Entry-Level NAS recommendations? 1 day ago:
Ideally? I’d say something with support for 2 drives, mirrored.
Without a price to define “not crazy expensive”, I’d say take a look at QNAP and Synology 2-bay devices, pick what fits the price range. I’d put it on the network and mount it on the PCs you want to as a drive to drop things in.
Then I’d add one more thing - 3-2-1 for anything critical.
- Three copies of all critical data should be made on a regular basis. Original data + at least two backups
- Two different storage types should be used to store the data to minimize the chance of failure.
- One offsite location. Could be an encrypted copy of a backup on cloud storage, could be a drive at another home.
How critical data is would be up to you and your parents, I just want to note that a single backup at your home is not going to be helpful if there is flooding or a fire or whatever that would damage both the originals and the backup device.
- Comment on Spare mini PCs? What would you do with them? 1 day ago:
Video playback of local media server (jellyfin), gaming (emulators mostly, and some old games), kids games (gcompris), podcast and audiobook playback (audiobookshelf).
Thats what runs on mine at least.
- Comment on Trump's Top Anti-Tylenol Expert Was Paid to Hate Tylenol, Records Show 2 days ago:
Andrea Baccarelli, the dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, received at least $150,000 as an expert witness during several lawsuits aimed at Kenvue, the maker of Tylenol, federal court filings reviewed by the newspaper show.
It’s a glaring conflict of interest, and a worrying example of how the Trump administration is using quack science to further a pseudoscientific agenda. Worse yet, it’s using baseless evidence linked to civil litigation to justify its claims.
A federal judge dismissed the suits aimed at the Tylenol maker, which were filed by families who claimed their children developed autism or ADHD after using Tylenol during pregnancy. The judge cited a lack of reliable scientific evidence and agreed with the defendants that Baccarelli had “cherry-picked and misrepresented study results,” according to the NYT.
- Comment on Unite! 2 days ago:
You want good words, date a languager
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 4 days ago:
I meant its branding, not Amazon owned, I should clear that up though it is misleading as written.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 4 days ago:
(Pedantry incoming)
Paperwhite is actually Amazon branding. E-Ink is as well. The generic name would be electronic paper or e-paper.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 5 days ago:
I thought I was clarifying without going into detail on the definition of an extranet, I don’t even know how I’d assume gender?
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 6 days ago:
An intranet is a local and private computer network.
The internet is a network of intranets, or more accurately, a network by which computers of disparate networks can connect.
Intra, meaning inside or within. Inter, meaning between or among.
Interdepartmental communication would be communication between departments, while intradepartmental communication would be within a single department.
The inter vs intra is the difference here.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 6 days ago:
Back then, an internet (lower case “i") was a small internal network of computers that communicated with each other.
That is an intranet, not internet, and is still applicable as a term. You just hear people say LAN more these days.
“World Wide Web” turned out to be a mouthful to say, so we replaced it with “the Internet” instead. Although most websites still start with “www” to represent their global reach.
The world wide web was always just one part of the internet, specifically the portion supported by http. Ftp, email, etc existed then as well, but was not part of the www.
- Comment on Ideas 6 days ago:
For my lab its testing ideas. More often than not, it involved hardware outside the server. Cloud hosted is not an option for that, or playing with a variety of distributions, testing applications, etc.
- Comment on What are you guys using to sort and name music? 2 weeks ago:
Whoops! Brain no worky.
Fixed, thanks!
- Comment on What are you guys using to sort and name music? 2 weeks ago:
Sonarr + Picard when needed is about all I do, need for Picard is pretty rare at this point, except when pulling in tracks from burned CDs of esoteric mixes I made quite a long time ago.
- Comment on Sep 12, 2025 - Self-Host Weekly by Ethan Sholly 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if Plex recently started sponsoring them with a take like that lol
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I have many 6th, 7th, and 8th gen machines - yes, it will do just fine, tiny/mini/micro is my entire self hosted experience (with few exceptions).
- Comment on Our fediverse conversations are gonna have the context they have been missing! 2 weeks ago:
Yup, this removes that need.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 3 weeks ago:
As an American, I hope Canada gets some sort of barrier between it and the United States.
I would gladly go with my family and volunteer to help build it. If my family "accidentally" ends up on the Canadian side, I'd much rather stay though and help offset the crazy you have there....
- Comment on discord 3 weeks ago:
Is it like the canary method?
Announce you aren't going to go masturbate, so when you don't say it, they know what you're doing?
I don't understand how it came up in the first place, is it a discord for a sex toy?
- Comment on Release v1.2.0 VoidAuth - Passkey Prompting and Sent Mail Viewing 3 weeks ago:
Well this looks fun to try out — I'll have to install it later and give it a go!
(Sorry couldn't resist with the em dash)
But I will give it a try later on, been playing around with auth options lately
- Comment on mkdocs for recipe catalogue 3 weeks ago:
No worries I completely get it!
I can't have gluten, so a big advantage for me is importing and modifying, and yes sometimes taking pictures with notes so I can make easier adjustments next time. Definitely the right fit for us, but I can understand OP wanting something leaner if their needs are lighter for sure.
- Comment on mkdocs for recipe catalogue 3 weeks ago:
Whatever does the trick for you! For me its mealie, because my wife loves to find new recipes online, and I just can't stand dealing with these sites. So import by URL is my main feature, then I tweak it as I go, no more dain bramage from terrible sites.
If you've got the recipe though - yeah markdown or cooklang rocks as a solution!