For one I don’t use software that updates constantly. If I had to log in to a container more than once a year to fix something, I’d figure out something else. My NAS is just harddrives on a Debian machine.

Everything I use runs either Debian or is some form of BSD

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in my opinion it is not adequate at all.

then pay attention

what?

The misunderstanding seems to be between software and hardware. It is good to reboot Windows and some other operating systems because they accumulate errors and quirks. It is not good to powercycle your hardware, though. It increases wear.

I’m not on an OS that needs to be rebooted, I count my uptime in months.

I don’t want you to pick up a new anxiety about rebooting your PC, though. Components are built to last, generally speaking. Even if you powercycled your PC 5 times daily you’d most likely upgrade your hardware long before it wears out.

Powercycling is not healthy lol

To me, the appeal is that my workflow depends less on my computer and more on my ability to connect to a server that handles everything for me. Workstation, laptop or phone? Doesn’t matter, just connect to the right IPs and get working. Linux is, of course, the holy grail of interoperability, and I’m all Linux. With a little bit of set up, I can make a lot of things talk to each other seamlessly. SMB on Windows is a nightmare but on Linux if I set up SSH keys then I can just open a file manager and type sftp://<hostname> and now I’m browsing that machine as if it was a local folder. I can do a lot of work from my genuinely-trash laptop because it’s the server that’s doing the heavy lifting

TL;DR -

My workflow becomes “client agnostic” and I value that a lot

I was just thinking I should sell my scarlett because it doesn’t work on Linux, anyway. lol. lmao.

My list in order of desperation, lowest first

• Soulseek
• Public torrent trackers
• Private torrent trackers
• Spotify rippers (they come and go like waves on a beach)
• yt-dlp youtube rip (please god have mercy on my bit-crushed soul)

Just talk to people bro

I’m sure there’s ways to do it, but I can’t do it and it’s not something I’m keen to learn given that I’ve already kind of solved the problem :p

I think it’s great you brought up RAID but I believe when Immich or any software mess things up it’s not recoverable right?

RAID is not a backup, no. It’s redundancy. It’ll keep your service up and running in the case of a disk failure and allow you to swap in a new disk with no data loss. I don’t know how Immich works but I would put it in a container and drop a snapshot anytime I were to update it so if it breaks I can just revert.

I recommend it over a full disk backup because I can automate it. I can’t automate full disk backups as I can’t run dd reliably from a system that is itself already running.

It’s mostly just to ensure that I have config files and other stuff I’ve spent years building be available in the case of a total collapse so I don’t have to rebuilt from scratch. In the case of containers, those have snapshots. Anytime I’m working on one, I drop a snapshot first so I can revert if it breaks. That’s essentially a full disk backup but it’s exclusive to containers.

edit: if your goal is to minimize downtime in case of disk failure, you could just use RAID

My method requires that the drives be plugged in at all times, but it’s completely automatic.

I use rsync from a central ‘backups’ container that pulls folders from other containers and machines. These are organized in

/BACKUPS/(machine/container)_hostname/...

The /BACKUPS/ folder is then pushed to an offsite container I have sitting at a friends place across town.

For example, I backup my home folder on my desktop which looks like this on the backup container

/BACKUPS/Machine_Apollo/home/dork/

This setup is not impervious to bitflips a far as I’m aware (it has never happened). If a bit flip happens upstream, it will be pushed to backups and become irrecoverable.

doesn’t this just mean the bots hammer your server looping forever?

Yes

How much processing do you do of those forms

None

It costs me nothing to have bots spending bandwidth on me because I’m not on a metered connection and electricity is cheap enough that the tiny overhead of processing their requests might amount to a dollar or two per year.

I am currently watching several malicious crawlers be stuck in a 404 hole I created. Check it out yourself at https://drkt.eu/asdfasd

I respond to all 404s with a 200 and then serve them that page full of juicy bot targets. A lot of bots can’t get out of it and I’m hoping that the driveby bots that look for login pages simply mark it (because it responded with 200 instead of 404) so a real human has to go and check and waste their time.

The bigger the studio, the less likely they are to use or understand the concept of Open Source

They see a price tag and assume quality. Blender is free, so it must be shit.

The point of having the RSS reader somewhere not on my PC is that when I reinstall my PC it’s one less thing to configure again. I just open the browser bookmark and there it is exactly as I left it.

https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr

Yeah same, I was reading the script very confused