HotChickenFeet

@HotChickenFeet@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men Over Thirty, what's your opinion on getting the snip?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got the snip when I was 28. Specifically sought out a scalpeless procedure.

  Worst part was the awkwardness of just being on the table naked with some dude going to work on my genitals. Virtually no pain, really for me. The only time was when I decided I was done being particularly lazy/careful and did some cooking. Needed to crouch to get a pain and was VERY uncomfortable.

  If you know you don’t want (any, or more) kids, just don’t. Generally speaking, the side effects are worse for your partners to use birth control etc, and its just a one time thing for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something like multi-library support for self-hosted music? Trying to recreate iPod feel⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also symfonium

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something like multi-library support for self-hosted music? Trying to recreate iPod feel⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I realize it’s not a satisfactory solution, since you won’t be able to use facilities like artist/album/etc to explore.

  But in navidrome I think you can make a smart playlist based on file path, which you could use to include all of YOUR songs in the playlist if it is in a different root path.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does your current setup look like?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Responding to myself…

  Datasheet reports 7.05 idle watts (~11w at active random read) so depending on what it considers idle, it’d be 8*7.05|11= 56.4:88W

  Server clocks in at ~102W. Halving the drives would reduce the power by 27 : 43%

  And in theory other components (motherboard, CPU…) must be using anywhere from (102-88) :(102-56.4)= 14 : 45.6 W.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does your current setup look like?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! I need to look more into what the power implications of 8 drives is - they never spin down, so I assume they are a non-trivial portion of my power consumption.

  That said, I’ve been considering upgrading to something recent and low power anyways. It would be a good opportunity to sneak in some useful features too,

  • Maybe the possibility of transcoding a video stream
  • USB3 (not a huge deal)
  • Non VGA display (useful, for when connection issues arise)
  • Audio jack (I could use navidrome jukebox mode!)

  Which the old hardware wouldn’t support without adapters, cards, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does your current setup look like?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Proton, some of their paid exit nodes support P2P

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does your current setup look like?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  • Server - Desktop Tower

    • Build - Intel server board & CPU based on old serverbuild naskiller guide
      • OS on SSD
      • ZFS ON 8 6TB DRIVES, YIELDING ~36TB of storage, recoverable with up to two failed drives
    • Runs (via docker)
      • Navidrome (webui used daily @ work, dsub on phone, feishin on desktop)
      • Jellyfin (used almost exclusively locally on my TV, occasionally to watch with friends on web)
      • Nextcloud (used occasionally, mostly backs up password files, etc or to share. Thinking about replacing.)
      • QBitTorrent with glutun VPN
      • Audiobookshelf - used frequently for audiobooks. Occasionally for podcasts. Often more convenient to use antennapod/pocket casts on phone for active podcasts)
      • Kavitas - used seldom. Thinking about stopping. I like using obps on my rooted kindle to access my library.
      • Changedetection.io -watch some sites for new products, etc
      • Kiwix (local wikipedia copy I use shortcuts in FF locally to search for things)
      • Homepage (local links I use on local machines to my services)

  • Raspberry pi

    • Adguard home & unbound - block most garbage for any traffic from my home

  Thoughts - I’m considering downsizing. I don’t really need all that much space, and it can be a headache at times. With drive replacement costs on top of power (~$320 a year) I consider either going to a vps or downsizing to what could run on a small compute like the n100 or a raspberry pi5, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens to my instance if my domain expires?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is .com fixed in some way to prevent the same scaling? I thought it was basically the domain sellers increasing the prices year over year

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨amazon anti union posters put up by the company⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Many states ban vote solicitation and signs within 50-200 ft of polling locations. I’m sure it’s only for state+ level votes, but it seems to me like having signs saying to vote NO directly on and adjacent to the voting machine for a legally protected union vote should be not legal…