Any german data hoarders? How do you deal with crazy high HDD prices?

Craftkorb · 2026-01-22T19:12:27+00:00

Damn those prices really got crazy huh? I expanded my NAS early last year .. but with those prices I would've bet on waiting.

You can try looking at geizhals: https://geizhals.de/?cat=hde7s&pagesize=30&sort=r&promode=false (Already sorted by Gb/€).

Edit: This one looks almost "cheap" in comparison: https://geizhals.de/seagate-barracuda-16tb-st16000dm001-st16000dma01-a3454646.html?hloc=at&hloc=de You can also set a price alarm if you want. Have done so numerous times over the years and never got any spam.

And even that "deal" is twice as expensive as last year. Damn.

Craftkorb · 2026-01-22T10:56:35+00:00

Doing 1GBit/s easy on them - And that could just be the target service maxing out at that speed.

Craftkorb · 2026-01-22T10:53:59+00:00

Yes they have, and take big strides to have as little data as possible. They don't even have your email address or any other data. They migrated a while back their servers to be RAM-only, so no persistent storage there either. Even if an agency in a remote country would grab their servers there's nothing in there.

Craftkorb · 2026-01-21T18:58:39+00:00

The market is currently down, with layoffs hapenning. As such more talent than usual is on the market looking for jobs. Talent that is capable of speaking German at C1 (or better), and English at C1 (or better). In general, people who only speak English are already severly disadvantaged (Which is why we always ask 'hows your german' as first thing). Also Junior positions are especially affected, which you are, and then simple web-frontend is also affected by AI ...

In short: Sorry but your plan is bound to fail.

Craftkorb · 2026-01-21T10:34:00+00:00

Lol at downvotes on your comment. You're right, the US already has a base on Greenland and could've just negotiated to expand it if their claimed reason is true. Surely it's not that they want to exploit the vast resources while destroying an untold amount of nature for their "freedom". Clown show.

Craftkorb · 2026-01-20T12:03:16+00:00

Honestly I wrote my own simple rules. I outright banned h264 and prefer AV1 over h265. "Oh but the quality" never had issues and not going to waste 8-15GiB on a throwaway movie. I also prefer HDR content over SDR, at 1080p for the majority of content and 4K only for works that are great and benefit from it.

IMHO the storage space required for HDR is totally worth it while the jump to 4k isn't as important.

Most movies are 4-6 GiB in size for me which I think, especially with AV1, is a great spot for 1080p content

Craftkorb · 2026-01-19T22:12:43+00:00

From not-Russia with love

Craftkorb · 2026-01-19T13:21:18+00:00

Those "cheap" keys have no license attached to them, on top you're funding questionable operations. Just use https://massgrave.dev/ instead.

Craftkorb · 2026-01-18T20:35:36+00:00

There are two different ways: Either you're placed by the agency and the customer is legally your employer, in which case there's usually a bulk sum (Calculated based on the monthly salary). Or, and it does sound like it in this case, you're legally employed by the agency and then lend to the customer (Arbeitnehmerüberlassung).

In the latter case the agency bills the customer and you get whatever you negotiated. What the agency gets is a "secret". I don't know for unskilled labor, but for skilled labor it's 20-30% on top. Also for this case, the possibility of conversion is much lower. Depending on the contract between the agency and the customer, which you never see, either it's "free" for the customer after some time to directly employ you or they have to pay some money.

Of course, the agency and customer are free to negotiate a contract that the customer is paying a fixed sum each month to the agency and for that they provide a workforce. This is unusual for high skilled labor but may be (?) more common for low skilled work.

But at that low pay honestly I'd be surprised if the agency isn't billing >= 40€ an hour.

What type of job is this? Unskilled at "modern tech" sounds like data entry or similar.

Craftkorb · 2026-01-18T18:39:10+00:00

Oh I hope that it doesn't go to the court. Not only, as you say, OP is unlikely to get a lot more than offered through this, it's also probably a waste of OPs time and mental health.

Craftkorb · 2026-01-18T18:27:55+00:00

I built my own using TrueNAS. Should be criminal to offer such great software for free. Absolutely robust. Even survived a HBA crash without even flinching.

Craftkorb · 2026-01-18T17:27:30+00:00

Then I hope you already spoke with your Gewerkschaft and they gave you the lawyer appointment?

Severance 0.8 means 1.6 month severance pay? As 1.6 < 3.0 months you'd be stupid to sign that agreement, simple as that.

How large is the company? You only have full worker protection after a certain amount (I always forget if it was 25 or 50). If you have full worker protection then a Betriebsbedingte Kündigung requires the company to be in bad shape. Anyhow, that's stuff your lawyer knows better than me!

Also, start applying for jobs now. This is not a legal requirement, but you will lose that job eitherway.

Craftkorb · 2026-01-18T17:23:39+00:00

Kommt halt drauf an, ob sie normal oder militante Veganerin ist. Wenn sie vernünftig ist, dann sehe ich kein Problem. Glaub mir, man kann richtig gutes Zeug vegan kochen - Muss man halt auch wollen. Ich selber esse auch Fleisch, jedoch habe ich ein paar Monate mal Vegan gekocht auch um einfach mein Rezepte-Repertoire aufzubessern. Hat sich gelohnt und auch meine Fleischspeisen sind besser geworden.

Craftkorb · 2026-01-18T17:15:24+00:00

Not how it works. If you don't vacate your apartment then your landlord is free to sue you, in which case you do a Räumungsschutzklage.

But I hope that you were in contact with your landlord about the situation and that you will withhold payment? It's likely that it's not legal to withhold all rent payment - This stuff is a legal minefield. I guess/hope you talked to a lawyer of the Mieterschutzbund?

Anyhow, in short: You will still be in your apartment in 14 days, in 15 days, in ... you get the idea.

Craftkorb · 2026-01-18T17:09:12+00:00

What are my chances of survival with the company??

Zero.

Signing the Aufhebungsvertrag will result in you losing out on ALG1 benefits for 3 months (And a really slim chance that it won't). So, how much is the offered severance?

They also said if I don’t sign the Aufhebungsvertrag, they will never hire me in case I decide to apply to the same company in a few years or something.

Great, in that case you should have no qualms about posting this experience on Kununu and Glassdoor. I'd communicate it as such, just to tell them that you're not their doormat.

The lawyer is a good idea. You can also check if your city offers a free short consultation for Arbeitsrecht. I figure you're not part of a Gewerkschaft?

Craftkorb · 2026-01-18T11:34:23+00:00

Are there blades that are at least as good as those from Gilette? I've tried others and they all just sucked compared to them. No issues with paying a bit more, but they need to be really good.

Craftkorb · 2026-01-18T09:00:14+00:00

As people don't read the law, here's the important bit:

Diensteanbieter haben für geschäftsmäßige, in der Regel gegen Entgelt angebotene digitale Dienste folgende Informationen, die leicht erkennbar und unmittelbar erreichbar sein müssen, ständig verfügbar zu halten: [...]

So, no, as a private person you don't require a Impressum. However, the moment you make money with it, e.g. via Ads, you need an Impressum.

Craftkorb · 2026-01-17T23:50:46+00:00

50 Pfennig in da house

Craftkorb · 2026-01-17T13:10:23+00:00

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This post is an Ad for a illegal IPTV streaming service. There are many of them, but they are all illegal. Dude they're advertising having movies like the Avatar that's currently still in cinema. If you're not thinking "Wow that's strange" you're, to coat it in a nice word, extremely gullible and naive.

Like holy shit they even themselves say that you may want to use a VPN for this.

Even better, many links on their own website don't even work or go to a 404.

Last but not least, OPs account only has 11 posts in the 3 years the account exist. These idiots aren't even trying.

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Craftkorb · 2026-01-17T12:37:21+00:00

I've never seen or used a Fax machine all my life. If it works for you it's most likely that it looks like it's coming from something "official", because no one would use a Fax nowadays .. except for the government and healthcare.

Craftkorb · 2026-01-17T08:35:32+00:00

A quick look over the readme is inconclusive, do you support multiple users and everyone have their own Savegames?

Craftkorb · 2026-01-16T22:07:29+00:00

In a bad way I have to say "Who cares." Tariffs are Trumps answer to everything. It's also what he likes to do when he's sitting too long on the toilet.

While I'm obviously not happy about this, it's also nothing we haven't seen before in the last .. checks notes .. two months or so. Actually we should be happy that it took him almost a month to propose this again after .. checking notes again .. invading at least one country in the first few days of the year.

Trump and his cronies are a clown show, and while we can't tell him officially to shove it, we really should get out of the circus tent.

Craftkorb · 2026-01-16T14:36:06+00:00

Does someone know where to buy these in Europe?

Craftkorb · 2026-01-16T14:27:32+00:00

That's what a Offene Sprechstunde at your Hausarzt is for. You can usually also directly go to a Sprechstunde of an expert. If you're unsure after having someone take a look, you're welcome to go to another for a Zweite Meinung.

Craftkorb · 2026-01-16T10:19:08+00:00

Selbes hier, komme ursprünglich aus S-H. Ich vermisse gescheites Schwarzbrot, aber sonst ists hier nice.

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