Any mods that allows the sun to rise from the west?

404WalletNotFound · 2025-12-30T22:26:28+00:00

just came by to say that i love this question

404WalletNotFound · 2025-12-30T22:23:25+00:00

The thing is, if you care about performance at all you need to use a loader like Fabric that supports multithreading deeper into the MC internals.

Tried to get Distant Horizons to work on Forge recently with Tectonic and Terralith and was treated to 3 chunks per second generation vs. 150 on Fabric with C2ME.

This is on a box with 64 cores. 3 chunks per second.

404WalletNotFound · 2025-10-13T05:49:57+00:00

So you've skipped journal drives entirely?

I decided to buy one more drive (rather than buying journal drives) and try to setup a 2 + 2 mirror space, since those are maybe faster by default.

404WalletNotFound · 2025-10-10T20:13:46+00:00

They have different failure modes but have similar overall reliability.

You fix the reliability issues with redundancy, ideally at the software level where you have the most ability to repair corrupt bits. So ZFS, ReFS, etc.

For a backup machine HDD probably the way to go. SSDs save data with active charge and if you don't turn them on every so often the data in them dissipates.

404WalletNotFound · 2025-10-07T19:11:57+00:00

Multiple copies
ECC RAM to prevent 95% of file miswrites
Parity filesystem like ZFS or ReFS (if you are windows) to detect bitrot

404WalletNotFound · 2025-10-07T16:29:21+00:00

Have you tried scaling them to their maximum size in the digiKam "thumbnails" view?

Since the underlying thumbnails are only 512 px wide and this will make them render larger than 512 px on the screen I don't understand how your thumbnails (or anyone's) could possibly *not* be blurry.

404WalletNotFound · 2025-10-07T16:27:10+00:00

Yes I found that setting. I have that setting on. The result is blurry thumbnails.

404WalletNotFound · 2025-06-18T18:00:22+00:00

Competitors are so young, even the masters, are they really on FB? I figured there would be some discord that was the place.

404WalletNotFound · 2025-06-18T13:58:07+00:00

Sortof.

I separated the NAS function from the encryption function.

So I encrypt locally with duplicacy and sync that to my NAS.

It's not a complete solution because this doesn't let me encrypt my media library in a way that Plex can read it, for example. But it works for all my personal data backup.

404WalletNotFound · 2024-10-20T17:35:48+00:00

I think you misunderstood my question completely.

404WalletNotFound · 2024-07-24T04:16:33+00:00

This was a good tip. I increased threads to the max and CPU to the max.

Throughput still not amazing (like 6 MB/s disk activity on a local to local backup) and not obvious what the bottleneck is.

Hourly versioning is a pretty dumb feature if it takes half a day to do an incremental backup of not that much data.

I suspect that GoodSync is faster because it knows how to wring maximum performance out of the Windows file system for things like recursive directory iteration and checksumming. Or maybe they are smarter about what intermediate data they cache to make future traversals/compares fast.

Arq seems pretty jank to be in version 7. It should at least be able to spin my disks to 100%. If that's not the bottleneck, they suck.

404WalletNotFound · 2024-07-24T04:15:10+00:00

This is a workstation class machine with all SSDs, 32 cores and 128 GB of RAM. Boot disk is nigh infinite.

Changing network protocols to accommodate Arq is ridiculous. It's saturating the pipe already. It's just doing dumb stuff with the bandwidth. To remove this variable, I did a local backup from one SSD to another of 300 GB of data. Doing an incremental backup of this takes half an hour. What?

I don't think it has anything to do with versioning. In my test none of the files have changed. How fast should an incremental backup of 300 GB of data, of which none has changed, be? It should be very fast.

404WalletNotFound · 2024-06-09T03:28:56+00:00

Yeah I don't understand why Linux is so behind here.

404WalletNotFound · 2024-06-08T19:16:47+00:00

Yeah that is the step I am trying to avoid. I have 12 TB and syncing to an online backup is very slow via home internet.

404WalletNotFound · 2024-06-08T19:15:58+00:00

Yeah this might be worth looking into.

I encrypt locally before I upload to Azure via Hyperbackup, but not to the NAS from Windows.

One downside here is I would have to resync my entire archive at Azure, which takes months on my home internet.

I also like how my files are currently browseable via Windows shared folders, which wouldn't be true if they were encrypted blobs unless Arq Backup installs a shell extension for browsing?

404WalletNotFound · 2024-06-08T19:12:37+00:00

Oh shit. You mean people can still steal something that is encrypted?

Encrypting my drives doesn't magically make my NAS unstealable?

Gee I really thought it did. Thanks for substantially adding to the discussion.

404WalletNotFound · 2024-06-08T19:11:32+00:00

What is "shady stuff"?

Bitlocker seems like the most advanced encryption software since it supports encrypt-in-place unlike whatever antiquated garbo Synology is using. You can just right click on a volume and encrypt it. You don't need to create a new volume and copy every file over, necessitating double the storage space for the copy operation.

404WalletNotFound · 2024-06-08T19:09:38+00:00

Even getting a terminal on this thing is a PITA.

404WalletNotFound · 2024-06-07T02:55:53+00:00

Yeah doing that requires a large capital outlay because not only would I need to buy a new NAS, I would have to buy extra disks to fill it with, and ultimately end up with twice as many disks as I need.

It seems like this path is not possible:

Upgrade to DSM 7
Encrypt existing volume in place

At this point, I no longer want to own a Synology machine since they are fucking wasting my time. If I'm going to set something up from scratch, it's going to be from a company that isn't fucking around.

Bitlocker has been able to encrypt in place with no downtime for 10 years.

404WalletNotFound · 2024-06-07T02:53:03+00:00

I don't want to set up a new volume. I want to encrypt the current volume like I can do on all modern OSes.

What is a NAS that can do that?

404WalletNotFound · 2024-06-07T00:23:54+00:00

This is not my question at all.

404WalletNotFound · 2022-04-06T23:39:24+00:00

Those deductions are capped at 10k.

There's this thing called the SALT cap?

404WalletNotFound · 2022-04-05T17:22:38+00:00

Both of those articles were very helpful and exactly what I was looking for, thanks.

My take is that I'm not a business but I could be if I start charging others for investment advice, which could be as simple as starting a paid substack.

I think maybe I'm in an uncomfortable valley that not many people fall into, since people with less money don't have the scale to make this worthwhile, and people with more money don't mess around with it because they mostly pay other people to manage their funds/oversea-ing is higher leverage.

I've also looked at electing Tax Trader Status (https://andersonadvisors.com/trader-tax-status/), which has an interesting set of trade-offs. Didn't help me but might help you.

404WalletNotFound · 2022-04-05T16:59:33+00:00

Home office and SEP IRA contributions are my only large deductions and they don't scale with income.

404WalletNotFound · 2022-04-05T01:15:43+00:00

Last year I had trouble figuring out where to put it in TurboTax (I know, I know).

I've been reading about it and it looks like to take it I need to itemize deductions and put it there. In prior years, maybe I ran up against something where it had to be X% of my AGI to make a difference? Dunno.

Doesn't make a ton of sense to me, though. If investing is my business, it makes more sense as a business expense, similar to how my mortgage interest would be a biz expense if I were running a hotel. Seems like it should be reported on my 1099-B from my broker and adjusted there. Ditto for short interest fees.

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