MangoPenguin
@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
He/Him | Bi Furry Boy
- Comment on Backups of Backups 1 day ago:
I do local backups to another drive, and online encrypted backups to cloud storage (I use backblaze B2)
- Comment on God ****** dammit, here we go again 1 day ago:
Yeah gotta make sure you never use the same password in multiple places, use a password manager.
- Comment on cheapest way to connect several SATA HDs via USB? 1 day ago:
The cheapest way I can think of is a used PCIe HBA card and some SATA power extension cables. Probably $50 or so to connect 8 drives this way.
If you’re set on USB you can often get 4 bay enclosures for around $100 or so, that would the way I’d do it. The downside of single USB adapters is the sheer amount of wires and power supplies you’ll have.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 1 day ago:
It is still keeping the battery warmer which degrades it faster regardless if its being charged or not.
- Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On 2 days ago:
I set up Plex/Jellyfin specifically to get away from having to manage media manually, it tracks watch states, gets subtitles, transcodes for me when I’m traveling, and does all of that for family too.
MPV is neat but its just a standard media player app like VLC, not really anywhere near the same concept as Jellyfin.
- Comment on Nextcloud -> Owncloud (ocis) 2 days ago:
The reason as I understand is better performance and reliability, by ditching PHP which is what causes most of Nextclouds problems.
- Comment on Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts 4 days ago:
For normal use like that 16GB is generally just fine. Some games can use enough that you’ll need to close Firefox and other RAM hungry programs though.
As far as needing more than that, people who do heavy design work or edit videos and that kind of thing generally do. For example 32GB running Fusion in Davinci Resolve can be a bit limiting sometimes with higher resolution or 10 bit footage.
- Comment on I keep waffling on Proxmox. Sell me. For or against. 1 week ago:
Oh I see what you mean yeah, I’ve never used NFS before with it.
- Comment on I keep waffling on Proxmox. Sell me. For or against. 1 week ago:
Yeah it sounds nice but too much time investment for me.
I can install PBS client on any system but it requires manual setup and scheduling which I don’t want to do. When used with Proxmox that’s all handled for me.
- Comment on I keep waffling on Proxmox. Sell me. For or against. 1 week ago:
No backup utility like PBS though, thats why I haven’t switched.
- Comment on Has anyone bought from Save My Server before? 2 weeks ago:
Intel AMT also works for out of band management on consumer hardware.
- Comment on Has anyone bought from Save My Server before? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think I’ve ever had a quality brand PSU go out on me. Software RAID like MD or ZFS works fine on basically any hardware, and I wouldn’t use hardware RAID these days anyways.
I used to worry about that stuff and use enterprise hardware, but its just so expensive for decent performance, and so power hungry.
- Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah media is a good use case for it, and doesnt really need cache either.
- Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? 2 weeks ago:
It can’t, you lose space efficiency if the disks you add aren’t the same size as the old disks.
- Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? 2 weeks ago:
It has no parity, you can pair with snapraid but thats snapshot parity and not real-time parity. Depends on the use case if that would work or not.
- Comment on Today's Massive AWS Outage That Took Down Your Favorite Sites Is Still Going On 2 weeks ago:
The difference is I can do something about my downtime and fix it.
- Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? 3 weeks ago:
The big thing is very easily mix and match different sizes of disks. ZFS as of recently can sort of do that, but its not as efficient.
- Comment on Am I getting this right? The vibe of different lemmy instances 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never thought about instance drama or worried about any of that stuff, I just hang out and interact with the communities I like.
Maybe you’re overthinking things too much.
- Comment on GOG: We’re thrilled to announce that the Crysis Remastered Trilogy has joined our catalog, and the original Crysis is now part of the GOG Preservation Program! 5 weeks ago:
Oh dang now I want to get a group together for that, I loved crysis multiplayer
- Comment on Cloudflare Tunnel? 5 weeks ago:
For #3 every service will say something like that, even with paid accounts.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
The main things that come to mind are you have to test/monitor 2 seperate actions instead of 1, and restores of single files could be more difficult since you need to login to the backup server, restore the file from a snapshot, then also copy that file back to your PC.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
How does that get sent over rsync though? Wouldn’t you need snapshots on the remote destination server?
Why not just use a backup utility instead?
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
What happens if you accidentally overwrite something important in a document and save it though? If there’s no incremental versioning you can’t recover from that.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Yeah but then it’s not really a good backup!
- Comment on SearXNG doesn't load the settings ... 5 weeks ago:
Don’t log in to the container shell to edit files, just edit the file on your host directly.
- Comment on SearXNG doesn't load the settings ... 5 weeks ago:
Nah there’s no debugging here, just edit the config file on the host where it’s stored exactly like you would on a native install.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Surely restic or borg would be better for backups?
Rsync can send files and not delete stuff, but there’s no versioning or retention settings.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Different tools for different use cases IMO.
But neither do backups.
- Comment on can we now "safely" auto upgrade immich? 5 weeks ago:
You can’t safely update anything even if it’s ‘stable’.
But I do auto update and just make sure my backups are working properly in case something breaks that I can’t fix.
- Comment on Need assistance solving unexpected and random I/O errors in homelab 1 month ago:
Potentially an overheating NVMe drive maybe? They can run quite hot without a heat sink on them.