I could see him doing that to scare off someone/something, but not for actual battle.

If you could change into anything, including tentacle goo, then just making yourself big isn’t going to help much. Might as well just turn into a living straight-jacket and constrict as needed to subdue the baddie.

I’d need a write up on the parallels. I’ve seen both several times and I can’t think of what they could be referencing.

They misspelled boldly in this sticker. Wonder if they caught that before the main run.

RAID helps protect you from certain failures, and also allows you to add more storage inexpensively. Typically buying multiple small drives is cheaper than one larger drive, but you do have to buy at least one extra drive for failure.

You do need to plan for backups. RAID is not a backup, it doesn’t protect you from fires, computer failure, or accidentally deleting things. So a backup is necessary. Look into 3-2-1 backup solutions. At least 3 copies of your data, 2 different hardware types (like SSD and HDD), with at least 1 offsite copy.

People often keep their NAS at home, with a cloud storage provider as an offsite backup, and an external drive for local backup.

If you have the money, and a family or friend with space, you can buy multiple complete NAS solutions and back them up to each other.

I develop infrastructure automation for one of the world’s largest private computer clusters.

I do it almost exclusively in Vim with command line git.

I’m the most productive member of my team.

Racist people be like…

Get two external hard drives and swap them into a fire safe occasionally.

That way if there’s a need to evacuate you can just grab the fire safe and run.

Steam Big Picture Mode allows you to install non steam apps.

Powered off it uses almost twice the energy of my server.

That’s insane.

I have Plex running alongside Jellyfin.

When transcoding video, Plex uses an extra 5 watts of power. Jellyfin uses an extra 55 watts.

Jellyfin also has security holes for accessing videos via URL without being authenticated.

I don’t feel like Jellyfin is ready for being exposed to the internet.

I had a 212j for about 10 years before I got a 720+.

The j series are so underpowered the dashboard took literal minutes to load.

The + series is extremely energy efficient, but still powerful. I was running a Plex server along with a Terraria server on it and had no hiccups.

Now they were designed nearly a decade apart, but still. The + series is the way to go, don’t get anything else if you go with Synology.

There’s no such thing as too simple to document. If you spent time learning how to install it, you’ll need to relearn it if you want to make any changes in the future. If you don’t leave at least some notes as to why you make some decisions, you’ll have to redo your work.

It’s also good to make notes on every configuration setting. That forces you to understand why the settings are the way they are. If you have a -f in a docker config and you don’t have any understanding of why that’s there, you might not know if it’s a development flag for getting things set up, or if it’s a critical part of your environment.

It is especially important if any of those parts are exposed to the public Internet. You might have a config set to allow unauthenticated connections and not know it.

There is an API that you can call to sync Kobo e-readers with calibre.

https://jccpalmer.com/posts/setting-up-kobo-sync-with-calibre-web/

It just depends on if this would work with your current thoughts on how your app works.

I would be interested in something that can sync with Calibre-Web

Kinda cool how the configs work, but it feels like you need to rely a little too much on having premade configs available for the things you want to do.

I guess the discussion is over, cause I find no fault with these selections.

Kwikset keypad works great for me. There’s a keyhole, a real button keypad, and the batteries last a while with quite a bit of warning before they’re actually dead.

I mean… Electronics and the Internet are also following the laws of physics. But I get what you mean, levers should be the only activation, and gravity should be the only requirement.

That being said, electronics in our devices do tend to reduce the amount of water and power that appliances use. Dumb devices are extremely inefficient, even though there are fewer points of failure.

It sucks that a 1950’s fridge can still function just fine today, but it also is a bigger strain on the power grid, and a leak in the refrigerant would destroy the ozone.

He’s talking about how Jeff said he needs a dishwasher because hand washing dishes takes 1.5 hours a day otherwise (and is a waste of water and energy)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/roku-says-unpopular-autoplay-ads-are-just-a-test/