Onomatopoeia
@Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
- Comment on This is not creepy, but I enjoy handing candy out to children 1 day ago:
I dunno, businesses have done it for decades.
Intregrating it with HA and keeping control totally on our own systems sounds convenient.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Well you said cloud - cloud to most of us here doesn’t mean on your systems, but a “cloud” of systems - i.e. not controlled by you.
- Comment on Self-Hosting a DNS Sinkhole is really important 2 weeks ago:
No backup with PiHole?
PiHole can run redundant if you want. Does Technitium do this differently? Or more easily?
- Comment on Home server 2 weeks ago:
Good lord, 114!
And here I thought I was doing something at 10-20 TB.
You go!
- Comment on Home server 2 weeks ago:
OP posted his numbers and you think you know better.
Bet you’re fun at parties.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
And that’s why these products are a non-started in the enterprise world.
Data management and security is an entire organization in these places.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
This is it.
It’s about risk management. If you don’t have a vendor to provide measured performance criteria, you have no idea how it will perform.
Businesses are data-centric. Without that data, a product effectively doesn’t exist.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
You forget the legal angle. That’s really what drives this stuff (and marketing).
- Comment on What is your self hosted power draw? 2 weeks ago:
Wow, off grid and you pull that much.
Impressive.
- Comment on NexPhone, a Pocket PC-Smartphone Running Windows 11 Linux and Android, Launching in 2027 2 weeks ago:
But it’s still good to see options.
Linux is more open than Android. Hell, you could argue Windows is in its own way. At least you get Admin on Windows and can do whatever you want with it.
- Comment on NAS Build Part 2: Electric Boogaloo 3 weeks ago:
Novell??
Holy cow that’s something I haven’t heard in forever.
- Comment on used hard drive retailers 4 weeks ago:
I get mine from a link on diskprices.com
Usually lead to ebay or Amazon - I’m not particular.
They’re almost always used business drives. Oldest one is now 4 years running.
- Comment on used hard drive retailers 4 weeks ago:
Businesses replace drives and systems on a schedule regardless of true wear on them - their risk vs cost metric is very different than ours.
So used business hardware is a great value for those of us who have a sunk cost in labor/expertise.
Most drives I’ve owned have run for 10+ years, while any business won’t run them past 5. I can take the risk of losing a drive, while it’s more important for a business to prevent losing a drive. Business disruption is a more costly event.
- Comment on DEA to Join Investigation Into Hayden Panettiere’s Death 2 months ago:
Seriously, she had the money to hire any independent doctor.
Not a great example of what you’re complaining about.
- Comment on Catastrophic optical disc shattering blamed on cleaning chemicals and packing foam — another data preservation concern to add to bit rot and laser rot 2 months ago:
You’re mistaken.
There’s no guarantee those discs won’t experience random magnetic failures.
- Comment on Catastrophic optical disc shattering blamed on cleaning chemicals and packing foam — another data preservation concern to add to bit rot and laser rot 2 months ago:
Offline drives fail at least as often (and probably more often) than hot drives.
This is largely from anecdotal experience, but also from an article written by a drive engineer 20+ years ago.
And it matches my own experience with complex mechanical systems I’ve maintained. Lubricants are a major problem for mechanical systems that sit unused - best practice is to either run them on a cycle, or be prepared to disassemble, clean, and re-lubricate after a period of non-use.
Even tape has risk when sitting unused.
Multiple copies on live systems with error detection/correction storage systems is where it’s at.
In the last year I’ve seen bit flips on data that’s stored in 3 locations, because my master data store doesn’t reside on a robust error correcting file system - and that’s at measly single-digit terabytes.
- Comment on Gen Z says finding love is too expensive 2 months ago:
Either that title is crap or people are confused.
- Comment on House passes bill that would make daylight saving time permanent 3 months ago:
Good news, but I’m concerned about the crap in the Motor Vehicle Modernization Act, of which it’s a part.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Bullets are even easier to make than a 3D printed gun…
Take your oppression elsewhere.
- Comment on All Cars Sold in the EU Now Require a Camera Aimed at Your Face. It’s Still Not Clear Where That Data Goes 3 months ago:
Don’t forget the middle finger
- Comment on Should you DeGoogle your smartphone? 3 months ago:
While Iagree (and I’m largely degoogled for a couple years now), there are a few things that make it quite a pain.
Maps being the biggest one. I have 5 mapping apps (CoMaps, Magic Earth, CoPilot, Organic, Waze and Gmaps) and even the combo of them doesn’t approach what GMaps can do, unfortunately.
I’ve paid for CoPilot to have true offline mapping, I would pay for an app that can do what GMaps does.
But the average person will have a real hard time de-googling, unfortunately. Google has done an exceptional job locking people in.
- Comment on UK attorney general tells department to stop using X amid disinformation concerns 4 months ago:
Careful, this is how you get labelled a conspiracy theorist. Even though you’re right.
- Comment on Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users 4 months ago:
And nothing of value was lost (that is, VW).
Thanka for clearly being dicks, VW. One more thing on top of your cars being as bad as American cars.
- Comment on 'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing 5 months ago:
- Comment on Unions that paralyzed New York commute over pay spent millions on luxury travel, filings show 5 months ago:
I’m shocked, shocked I say!
- Comment on Game Consoles Are Pricing Themselves Out of Relevance 5 months ago:
I’ve heard this for 20 years.
I don’t play on consoles, and even I can see this simply isn’t true
- Comment on Do not remove my spam 5 months ago:
He’s just annoyed because his spam got removed from github
- Comment on Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead 5 months ago:
Stopped using reddit years ago.
Never once used WhatsApp, and refuse to.
Same with a bunch of other social media sites.
YouTube - only use it to download high quality Vida using other tools, like Grayjay, Newpipe, and YT-DL.
- Comment on EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push 5 months ago:
Pretty sure it never left.
- Comment on EU Is Rolling Out an Online Age Verification App That Could Become the Global Blueprint 6 months ago:
Bingo.
It’s what all governments have been trying to do for decades.