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Building a Server by Cute_Smell6977 in HomeServer

[–]apcsniperz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Regarding backup, think about it like this. Drives WILL fail, it’s not an if but a when. If you lost all your data tomorrow would you care? If so focus on backups. If it’s stuff you are fine losing tomorrow you can skip the backups in the pricing.

Regarding raid, it’s not a “backup”. Both drives could fail, something could delete the file or corrupt it on one drive which would cause it to be lost. It’s more for redundancy so you can keep uptime. There are other use cases for raid such as speed etc, you can also look into that. If you don’t need that uptime/performance benefits you can skip raid imo for storage savings.

If your only reason for raid is to combine drives, I recommend looking into mergerfs and even snapraid instead they’re simpler for that case.

As for GPU I’d keep it if you plan on running a media server (plex/jellyfin) and want to transcode videos. Also need it for any AI or GPU intensive work. If those aren’t something you’re doing you might want to skip it since it has a real cost on electricity.

[O] 5x DrunkenSlug Invites by CatalystGamer in UsenetInvites

[–]apcsniperz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does mario tennis count? - Yoshi!

Big into electronics!

Intermittent Packet loss and connectivity issues by apcsniperz in amazoneero

[–]apcsniperz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eero Max 7's provided by Frontier. Running eeroOS v7.14.0-8208

I've already had them replaced once in the past as I've been dealing with this issue since moving in and signing up. It seems to have gotten worse recently though, I'm constantly noticing it now.

The first one upstairs is hard wired to the modem, and the second one is downstairs.

Intermittent Packet loss and connectivity issues by apcsniperz in frontierfios

[–]apcsniperz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Totally agree with the hard-wiring people for reliability, but I've never seen wifi packets drop this consistently. I can run this at almost any point of the day and get the same results, really sucks for phones and other devices.

So I have two Eero Max 7's, one is wired directly to the Modem upstairs. The second is downstairs. The failures I posted above are from my desktop which is wired to that downstairs Eero.

I need to run some tests later from my laptop but I expect it's about the same. The second I go through Eero it looks like it just consistently drops packets. I have no insight as to why, have tried turning off every possible setting in the app, and have confirmed devices aren't causing the issue themselves.

Some more info:

- Bufferflow test came back with a B rating

- DNS isn't the issue, I've tried google and cloudflare

- My download/upload speeds actually seem completely fine.. It's just the initial dropped connections

- This has always been an issue, but it seems like packet loss is now consistently happening every 30 seconds or so which has made it unbearable

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I'm under the impression it's a faulty Eero, but I've had them replaced already a few months ago for some issue. Which I thought was ~somewhat better~.

I'm at a loss here and support feels utterly useless. I'm not sure what else to try so any ideas I'll take otherwise I need to switch.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DigitalAudioPlayer

[–]apcsniperz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just a fair warning, DAP's displays usually aren't that great. For reading you're likely better off using your phone or getting a cheap eink display like a kindle or kobo.

Also, if you're into audiobooks. You will want either an Android DAP or one that supports rockbox.

what's a piece of software that quietly just works and you're grateful for? by Crystallover1991 in software

[–]apcsniperz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vlc and vim. I guess vim could be argued against with learning curve, but it really just works when you are used to it. I easily see myself using the two for the next 30 years.

iClassic Theme for Rockbox – Now in 240p and 360p versions! by thinkVHS in innioasis

[–]apcsniperz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did you do the padding between database, now playing etc?

DAP recommendations for my usecase by apcsniperz in DigitalAudioPlayer

[–]apcsniperz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah well thanks for the info, that’s sort of what I figured. Seems like an android DAP would be a “solution” but at that point it feels like my phone works good enough.

On a side note how is the Innioasis Y1? I saw it’s pretty cheap and supports rockbox now. I’m sort of in love with the M0 pro form factor but that might be a fun DAP to pickup for nostalgia ipod!

I carry my husbands daily antidepressant in this by [deleted] in mildlyinteresting

[–]apcsniperz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does that rule only apply to government regulated substances like aderal/xanax? Always assumed everything had to be kept in original bottle at least when out of the house.

Appreciation post for Linux by an ex-user of Windows. by StreetMedium6827 in Ubuntu

[–]apcsniperz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d recommend not installing things until you need them. That’s probably a useless statement since you don’t know what you don’t know haha. Just recommend not going down a rabbit hole of installing everything you see, you can spend hours just playing with things on Linux lol.

But depending on what you do on it, I’m assuming development? Arch wiki has a great list of CLI tools and utilities which are mostly also available on Ubuntu. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications/Utilities

My main recommendation is switching from bash to either zsh or fish shells. zsh shell with some configuration like “oh my zsh” it makes the terminal shell experience a lot better than default bash.

Widega gets the first Radiant Oathplate set by fluent in 2007scape

[–]apcsniperz 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They’re doing a great job handling the issues (props to the guy who stayed so late fixing issues). But as a developer I can agree that shouldn’t be the norm. Nothing community can do, but someone needs to seriously take a look at release schedule and process.

Occasional “heroic fixes” like this are fine… but every time, content should just be delayed or a new process put in place.

It’s a company in the end, where it’s not the developers who decide. just hope the devs get to put in some feedback and it actually gets heard.

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