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@Zwuzelmaus @Cyber Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren’t. Even when they are, you’ve still got smart self test log and error log histories. So Power_On_Hours might be “0”, but also might show a short offline test completed at 33,000 hours giving you a hint as to the drive’s true age.

Anyways, I buy used/refurbished ones w/ 5yr warranties from goharddrive, and when one failed this year they honored the warranty and sent me a replacement despite current drive prices… so I’m a happy customer.

@toddestan @SpatchyIsOnline If it does run warm, and since the display is dead, there’s nothing keeping you from removing the motherboard from the case and setting up your own cooling. If the crappy little laptop fan isn’t up to the task, put the motherboard in a larger box and hook up a few USB-powered CPU fans to move a lot more air over the CPU/GPU’s heatsink.

@Fenyx @gaiety Are Kitchen Aids dooming us to levels of climate change that will doom society?

@Joelk111 @drive_desaster I don’t own any cars, but I kind of want try this out for my bikes and ebikes 😂

@Arda @lambalicious because the experience is truly garbage. Not only does it not scale and is slow (I stopped running a server years ago, but the resources it consumed was obnoxious), but the clients often do silly things like say they’re waiting for a key refresh so it can’t decrypt the message yet. I still have to use it for work unfortunately.

@possiblylinux127 @lambalicious jmp.chat, the only real google voice alternative, is bringing it back.

@jj4211 @german Be sure to take a big swig of coffee first!

@curbstickle @Epzillon What’s the “overly expensive video switcher” that you’re using? I have an android TV with broken CEC (a Pi running Libreelec works fine one my other tv, but not this one).

@BarHocker How are you powering the fans? It almost looks like they’re plugged into the 12V/5V sata power converter, but there’s no 3/4pin connectors there obviously.

@mlg @leanleft otoh, it could be argued that widespread usage of NATs kept people from actually hardening their software stacks. For servers, admins moved from hole-ridden garbage like sendmail to stuff that was designed with security in mind like postfix. However, for desktop software and home stuff, there was never much of a need, so a lot of the biggest companies have cultures of extremely sloppy security practices in shipped software. And it’s slated to get worse with AI adoption…

@runwisp_com @lime Psst… it’s not a “him”, it’s a piece of software. 😏

@cmnybo @DanKhramov Doesn’t even need to be a newer CPU. I’m running Immich on an ancient dell laptop w/ i3-4010U. Not efficient in terms of CPU-per-watt these days, but that i3 chip isn’t putting out much heat either.

As far as backups - snapraid sync runs nightly to ensure that accidental deletions or bitrot is caught. Restic backs up to a drive on a separate machine (in a different room of my house). I still need an off-site backup, but the hard drive shortages messed up my plans there…

@KingDingbat I don’t have a good answer for you (I’m in a similar situation, with my wife stuck using both google calendar and microsoft’s extremely shitty calendar, while I use radicale). However, depending upon your goals for self-hosting your calendar, I’d ask whether you really *want* google seeing your calendar entries. If your goal is independence, then fine. If one of your goals is privacy, then sharing your calendar entries w/ google messes that up.

@mvirts Also, if the swap is there, linux will use it. If you have 8gb of swap, the kernel will assume that you want it to use that much swap.

If you don’t want it using that much swap, just reduce your amount of swap. I have various servers (a build machine w/ 96gb of ram, a VPS w/ only 2gb of ram, etc) with zero swap. The vast majority of my machines where I actually want swap? They get 1gb, max. Other than for very specific workloads, there’s no reason to ever have that much swap imo.

@TheRedSpade @pineapplelover Linode got acquired by Akamai and their service (or at least, *my* VPS) has really gone downhill over the past few years.

@cyclicircuit @tripflag I loved copyparty, but my non-technical users sadly found it confusing. Even with White-Gold-Theme-For-Copyparty.

I want to take the copyparty backend and glue on the frontend from the (now-archived) File Browser project…

@chronicledmonocle @irmadlad The irony is that when Ubuntu was created in '04, one of the first features they worked on (after the initial 4.10 release) was fast booting. Debian at the time used sysvinit and booted pretty slowly. And in addition, long-term support.

Those things eventually made their way into Debian through various means; I haven’t messed with Ubuntu in years, but it’s very amusing to me to hear that Debian might boot faster than Ubuntu.

@wilo108 @Cyber For your kids’ friends, are you using a web interface like movim or something? Or are they installing their own clients?

@anakin78z I still have to use Matrix for work. The clients suck (literally every single one I’ve tried, and I even briefly maintained Neochat for debian) and I routinely get key errors.

@anakin78z We use xmpp (prosody on the server; a mix of conversations/cheogram/dino/snikket on our phones and laptops). We’ve got a family chat where the kids share the latest memes, and we message back and forth. We do also have signal (or in my case, Molly) installed, but don’t use it that much. My wife just switched phones and signal was unable to transfer stuff from phone phone to the other - in general I find signal annoying to use.

We use matrix for a few years but it was buggy and dumb.