raspberry pi and an HDD with family (remote)

Is this the way to go for off-site backups w/ family? In terms of low power draw, uptime, etc.

That’s a handy tool, thanks for posting it. Do you happen to know how the lists are sorted? It’s not alphabetical.

I’ll have to look into these. Thanks for the tip!

This was my thought as well, but I figured I’d put it out there anyway just in case there’s some kinda workaround/magic that I hadn’t heard about yet.

Correct, they’ve been sealed since I filled them three weeks ago. Thanks for explaining a little more around how gas degrades.

Thanks for weighing in. It would be going into a Mazda 3 or a Honda CRV.

It just can’t. This candle is burning fast at both ends.

I hope you’re right b/c right now feels like the classic “market can stay irrational longer than we can stay liquid” type situation.

you can use one of a million Jitsi instances (Element has a publicly available one)

Is there a list of public Jitsi instances? I know about https://meet.jit.si/, but otherwise I’m stumped. Searching DDG for jitsi instances returns a bunch of results about self hosting.

Thank you for posting this!

Reading Josh Meissner’s article about the acquisition of bike route sharing app Komoot has reinforced the importance of promoting and fostering community-owned services.

I’m not sure how to reach the owners of the https://furtherheights.com/ instance of wanderer, but visiting their website results in a 1033 error. The next instance I tried (https://trails.tchncs.de/) works as expected, though!

I also posted this question in another comment thread, but is there no way for an app to say “give me communities only” or “give me users only” when calling the webfinger lookup thingy? Because if there is, then Mastodon devs could update the behavior on their side to depend on whether the name starts with @ or ! (the same way Lemmy apps do).

Is there no way for an app to say “give me the community only” or “give me the user only” when it calls the webfinger lookup thingy? Because if there is, then Mastodon devs could update the behavior on their side to depend on whether the name starts with @ or ! (the same way Lemmy apps do).

It’s also important to make sure the code makes sense and is documented so whoever reads it 2 years from now (be that you, someone else, or I guess another llm) will understand what they are looking at.

Fair points, although it seems to me the original commenter addresses this at the end of their first paragraph:

Then review the entire git diff and have it refactor as required to ensure clean and maintainable code while fixing any broken tests, lint errors, etc.

10 commodity SSDs through a powered USB hub forming a poor man’s NAS with snapraid + mergerfs

How did you end up with this setup? Did you just already have a bunch of SSDs from over the years? That’d be cool af if you posted a photo of it.

For the NAS, what do you use for storage? Do you have an external drive hooked up via USB or something else?

Thanks for clarifying. If I understand correctly, you’re saying that in terms of energy usage, a thin client + external docking station for HDDs might have a smaller footprint than an ITX build, but at the expense of future upgradeability. On the other hand, an ITX build would likely draw more power than the thin client + external HDDs, but enables me to upgrade individual components down the road. Did I get that right?

I would only consider those thinclients if AI is something you are planning to run.

Do you mean b/c AI would require a beefy host for the thin client to connect to?

Thanks for clarifying that. One last question if you don’t mind – some listings (such as this one) say “no OS,” and “You must reload the unit to gain original factory functionality.” Are they just talking about installing my own OS or does “reloading” mean something else in the context of these thin clients that I’m not aware of?

Gotcha, although I’m in the US, so would something like this DELL WYSE 5070 THIN CLIENT Intel Celeron J4105 1.50GHZ 8GB RAM 64GB SSD No OS ($34 w/ free shipping) be comparable?

Gotcha, the one you linked is sold out, but what about this one?

it being ARM based will cause various headaches when learning compared to something x86

Hmm, this is just enough to give me pause. Thanks for the heads up. I’ll have to think on this some more and maybe do a little more research.