I take my shitposts very seriously.
My predecessor at work had a “backup scheme” where each week a full copy of important VMs’ virtual disks would be pulled by a backup VM. Two issues with that. One, the VMs were not powered off and nothing ensured that the disks were synced. Two, the backups were made onto the same physical host with no replication or high availability beyond RAID 1.
Benefit of my job: I get access to the scrap pile. I don’t know any reputable used/refurbished sellers.
I know what it is, and I ensure compliance at work (I’m a sysadmin). At home, it’s less about best practices and more about what hardware I can afford. Manufacturers tend not to offer regional discounts. A 2-2-0 scheme is better than nothing at all.
No backups. For important documents and photos, that was the backup and most of them have copies on my PC. The rest is easily replaced. I knew what I was getting into, and that the free, decommissioned hard drives with 20-30 thousand hours on them were a lit fuse.
But it’s the greatest city on Earth, according (exclusively) to New Yorkers!
I’m on that authentic STALKER diet. Bread, salami, sometimes canned meat, and pills to silence the voices.
The exif data says that it’s 4000x3000 pixels, but with an upper-right orientation. Looks like the camera always records the image data in landscape orientation and simply changes which corner represents the (0, 0) pixel.
It also means that Catbox doesn’t re-encode the image and preserves its metadata (for better or worse), which is good to know.
Why did this image load from right to left? It’s bothering me more than it should.
Do early ipods not show up as mass storage devices at all?
Maybe I’ll put it in another community. Audiophile Circlejerk if it exists.
But my main points boil down to:
That is a horrid idea from so many perspectives and I hope it never sees the light of the heavens. I would elaborate, but my reply would surely contain an excess of profanities and I fear the moderators’ wrath.
Absolutely cromulent.
No AI, no blockchain, no subscriptions, no streaming, no SaaS… By every modern metric, it’s so dull it might not even exist.
can’t easily get a new one with a headphone jack
That pisses me off to no end. Not just the fact that Apple took a steaming dump and every other company decided to eat it, that’s just natural. But it would be So. Fucking. Easy. to capture an entire niche by just slapping a minimal DAC circuit and a TRRS socket on a phone. And nobody does it! Fairphone doesn’t. Pinephone doesn’t. “Nothing”, which is supposed to be this quirky unique thing, doesn’t, but what it does do is shove an AI in the camera where all it does is crank up the fucking saturation!
Rant over, I have to go seethe alone for a bit.
This is something the people of !Selfhosted@lemmy.world are better suited to answer.
In my personal opinion, for most home servers, the double redundancy of RAID 6 is more valuable than having a fully rebuilt array as soon as possible. If one member of a RAID 6 array fails, you’re still at an effective redundancy of a RAID 5. If one member of a RAID 5 array fails, you have zero redundancy until the hot spare is rebuilt.
If energy consumption is also a factor, it’s worth keeping in mind that a hot spare can be powered down by the controller until it is needed.
I’d personally go with RAID 6: 4 data + 2 distributed parity. That was the plan for my server too, but the motherboard only has four SATA ports and one had to be dedicated to the OS SSD.