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batmaniam

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  • Systems

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  • The thing is, by and large, we're already almost "post scarcity". We have no problems requiring technical solutions; we already have the tech. There's no polio that requires Salk. We've solved most of our problems, we just don't like the solutions.

    Better tech won't fix that because that's not a tech problem.

  • AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over

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  • I'm glad somebody got the joke.

  • AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over

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  • I understand you're frustrated about the AI race. That's an excellent point, and it deserves careful consideration. First, in considering the AI race we need to consider what AI is...

  • How big is your media library?

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  • Nice try FBI Agent.

  • xkcd #3106: Farads

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  • But then we'd miss the fun of domain specific units, like A barn

  • You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning

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  • Do you happen to use android auto? Does that work OK? I could go without, but that's one integration that's just got it's hooks on me hard.

  • Fully remote control your Nissan Leaf (or other modern cars)

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  • The thing that pisses me off most is that cars have these vulnerabilities, and automakers do a shit job of protecting them, but do just a good enough job to keep me, the owner, from playing with them.

  • Can/should I just use a networked folder as a duplicati backup destination?

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  • I don't know why I didn't think of that! I have a number of pis and a few outdated mini-pcs. I didn't connect that fact they can be miserable to use so long as it validates it works. Thank you so much!

  • Can/should I just use a networked folder as a duplicati backup destination?

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  • So I had questions on practicing restore! I wanted to start by just making sure I had something, but how does one validate, short of having a duplicate hardware setup to restore to?

    Some of this is a bit extreme but a lot of it is capabilities I'll be slowly building up. Read only backups is a fantastic point. I am indeed working at offsite backups. I have a separate drive for all the "untimely exit" stuff, and, most importantly, a physical printed folder in a fireproof safe. I have had/have some health issues that make it relevant. I strongly encourage practicality of air-tight security there. A plain text with accounts and passwords is a bad idea, but plain text naming where accounts are is reasonable. Yes, there's always social engineering, but the people at those firms should be looking for proper legal documentation from the executor of the estate, and 98% of people are more likely to have a loved one who is cleaning things up than have someone stealing their identity. There is so much to handle when someone passes, any impediment makes it more likely someone just brute forces things.

    Re: Scrubbing "impolite" data. I lost someone last fall who was a data nut (tons of personal and professional videos and photos). We joked about finding their porn stash, but mostly we got drunk clicked around, and laughed at them flubbing a take at a work video, I cried a bit at a motorcycle maintenance list they never got to, that kind of thing. End of life is messy and gross. If it doesn't carry jail time I can promise you no one will care whats on the computer after cleaning the endless bodily fluids out of the bed and carpet.

    I may pattern the backups of some drives, but there's no way I'm going to have enough space to do that for 20+ TB of media. I like my media archive, I've spent a long time building it, but having the main drive, the local backup in a RAID, and an offsite is probably where that will end. The offsite will probably be a monthly one so that should help.

    On the other hand, I am working on cool genealogy project through gramps, which is intended to be a "forever archive" kind of thing. That I may pattern as the data would be incredibly difficult to replace and there's an increased chance of non-malicious issues given I'll be opening it up to extended family of varying technical expertise. THAT I may pattern more extensively the way you suggest.

  • Can/should I just use a networked folder as a duplicati backup destination?

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  • This is really helpful thank you! I think it's samba share? Whatever Unraid has just baked in and calls "shares".

    Googling rsync that looks like it'll work, and faster is better!

    While I do want true backups of a few drives (as in: if a drive fails, restore the backup to a new drive, physically swap it out, and you're good to go), the majority of the data I'm just looking to have it "backed up" (as in: all of the files are present in more than one location). The majority of the data is ~18TB of media for my plex server. My unraid is: 1x 2TB, 1x 10TB, 1x20TB and 1x20TB(parity). It sounds like Rsync-ing the 20TB drive with my plex media and the 20TB unraid disk would get me what I need?

    Thanks for the pointers, getting a few things to google is incredibly helpful.

  • Tips/Getting started on a custom "case"? (ESD protection, cooling, etc)

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  • Awesome! Thank you for the helpful reply. Are components speced with an air exchange rate in mind or something else that would help me plan?

  • Tips/Getting started on a custom "case"? (ESD protection, cooling, etc)

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  • It’s kind of like the one in the picture, except mine would be an isosceles trapezoid from a top view.

    I didn't even notice the misspell in the photo, I just picked a random picture because I didn't want to upload my actual cabinet lol

  • Tips/Getting started on a custom "case"? (ESD protection, cooling, etc)

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  • lol

    edit: Ok, I might have missed the joke here... I want to build a PC, two, actually, into a piece of furniture that sort of looks like the one in the picture. Is there some obvious reason this is a terrible idea? I figured I'd be able to set up the thermal management just fine.

  • Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump

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  • Lmfao, that's what I mean, it makes way more sense to plan for the scenarios where you won't be forced to, you know, resort to canibalism.

    I'm a big fan of just augmenting your floating stock at home. I make a point of buying a few extra cans every-time I grocery shop, a few extra boxes of pasta etc. I focus on things I may actually cook with so I'm rotating stock. Diced tomatoes, canned beans, those tomatoes with green chilies in them. I've got some canned meat that I almost never cook with (a just in-case thing), it gets rotated through making dip during football season, but it's there if I need it. I've also got textured vegetable protein (which is more for camping/a vegetarian I dated and tried to learn to cook for). Again, it's a luxury for some folks (both for budget and space reasons).

    But that was my point. This may not be you but it was surprising to me in early covid how many people just didn't keep food around. Also spices, like it's great to have rice and beans, but you'll be a lot happier if you make sure you've got chili powder, hot sauce, soy sauce, etc.

    Sure there are "grab and go" scenarios, but it is far more likley someone might need to put together some meals in a less than ideal situation. Being able to do, say, mac and cheese with some shredded canned chicken and hot sauce with a side of green beans goes a long way to keeping spirits up.

    I didn't grow up super rural, but it's just the way my house was. One reason was the weather, the other was my mom was amazing at stretching a dollar. She'd buy when there was a great sale, and we'd have 4-5x of whatever the item was downstairs. So you'd wind up eating Christmas themed breakfast cereal until like May, but it also meant there was just a bunch of reserves.

  • Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump

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  • As someone who is generally on the more prepared side, the use case for most stuff falls far short of "doomsday". There is a ton to be said about things that are just generally useful in adverse situations. I've lived through a dozen or so storms that took out power for a few days (longest I think was 2 weeks). It's usually not a complete blackout everywhere.

    Point being: I can see it being useful to have a bunch of info in something easily portable to say, double check breaker wiring helping your friend fix some stuff after the storm. Look up the emergency AM/CB/NOAA radio freqs. I have a lot of the resources on this thing on a server, but that's not mobile and would eat a lot of power just booting up. To package it nicely in a form factor like this would probably run me just about $189.

    But the overall point is I think this falls on the extreme end of practical preparedness but I can absolutely see the use. Honestly the most practical thing on there are the books. Again, usually if a community gets hit bad you wind up with people that have power having a bunch of people stay over. Being able to allow multiple people stuff to read would help kill time.

    All of that being said, its a distant second to the critical items that, again, have a huge range of uses: A solid first aide kit, 2 weeks of food (even if it's not awesome). I realize that's a luxury for a lot of people, but money is much better spent there first.

    Strayed off topic a bit, but it's because while I don't think it makes a lot of sense to plan for SHTF scenarios, I do think we're going to see a general decay (but not elimination) of public services/utilities and an increasingly pissy climate. I think it's important for people to not fall into the bunker-prepper fantasy OR write off being more prepared than they're accustomed to.

  • SHOCK POLL: AOC a Close Second Place Behind Kamala Harris in 2028 Democratic Primary

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  • No.

  • SHOCK POLL: AOC a Close Second Place Behind Kamala Harris in 2028 Democratic Primary

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  • Usual: If you voted 3rd party or didn't vote, you signed off on our current reality.

    But you're not wrong, and I have plenty to disagree with AOC about, but they're all conversations for a better time; done and done.

  • Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

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  • Exactly. Whats funny is facebook could have done this in like... 2010. Like I'm fairly certain I had "group pages" back then that were a very small number of people. But you're right, the channel thing is crazy useful. Like my one group has 3 people, but we've got like 50 topics. It's gotten to the point there are archives, ie: the "thanksgiving" channel moves from the "archive" group to "general" group around mid sept.

    I've also been lucky enough to avoid having it be work related. Like I have slack for work, that notification noise is the devil, where as the discord notification noise means my buddy is posting pictures of his kid.

  • Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

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  • 1000% agree. Like I use it for some spread out family (one server) and college friends. There's <5 people in each. I think eventually forums will adopt the fediverse infrastructure. I'm on an old school forum for my vehicle, and it's great. It's direct out of 2010, it wouldn't suprise me if those kind of sites brought in all the code that the fediverse runs off of. As a casual observer, that's really what lemmy seems like to me: "what if 2005 internet, where people managed their own webpages, but it ran on a common architecture that made it easier to cross-link with other sites if you wanted?"