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  • mrmaplebar@fedia.iotoFediverse@lemmy.world•Do we need more users ?
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    1 day ago

    I don’t disagree that we need more positive and high quality hobby content. Sure.

    But personally I’m so sick of dudes complaining about “political shit and rage bait and virtue signaling”, whatever half of that banal nonsense is even supposed to mean…

    In fact, I’d go as far to say that people who whine about everything being “political” is a bright fucking red flag to me. My immediate assumption upon reading that is “this person is a Trump supporter who voted for this exact shit to happen because they want it to happen, and they don’t want to be confronted by the fact that other people don’t.” I know exactly what kind of people don’t want to hear about “politics” anymore now that Trump is elected, trampling our institutions, and fucking everything up. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, right?

  • mrmaplebar@fedia.iotoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•[Help] Improving HDD storage setup for personal server
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    12 days ago

    I think that sounds pretty solid to me. Realistically you should count on having 3x drives for your important data:

    1. The main data drive(s)
    2. Drive(s) for redundancy, mirroring the data drives. (I use btrfs RAID1 for this.).
    3. Offline local hard drive(s) that you keep somewhere relatively safe that you occasionally backup to.
    4. (Optionally) Some kind of offsite backup.

    So if you plan on having 2TB of data, you’ll ideally want 3x 2TB drives. 2 in the PC mirroring eachother, and 1 in a closet or safe that you plug in and backup to a few times per year. (With bonus points if you can get another 2TB of off site or cloud storage to also backup to, in case of catastrophy.)

    As for how you build it, I think it doesn’t matter too much. Its possible to use whatever random spare PC parts you have to make a decent home server, imo. A lot of people on YouTube and Reddit have all kinds of fancy servers in a rack, but an old repurposed desktop can be fine. ( I would probably use new, decent quality drives though.)