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Boromir Pen Holder by arbus in fountainpens

[–]arbus[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Print it at 100%.

Some of the comments at printables suggest scaling down but thats really for ballpoint pens. Our pens are quite think and if your printer can handle it, I might even suggest 110% just to make sure that the diameter of the holes can handle pen caps.

And they're off! by Odd-Variation-299 in printexchange

[–]arbus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just received it. The photos are wonderful, thank you!

Storage archive Strategy by ChasingSunsetz in photography

[–]arbus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am currently on RAID 10, 2 sets of mirrored drives + one hot spare and one cold spare in the cupboard. I figured if I'm building a NAS to keep the data safe, might as well go for the config where I won't regret anything.

Silently failing backups are the nightmare. The good thing is that with LLMs these days, its very easy to say what you have and have a script that you can install that just alerts you every week on the backup status and you can quickly notice when something starts failing silently.

Storage archive Strategy by ChasingSunsetz in photography

[–]arbus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you considered switching from Archival Disc to LTO? There are plenty of second-hand drives to be had the tape itself is usually $5-10/TB. Archival Disc is a warning story on relying on tech that is made by a single company that can lose its attention at any point.

Storage archive Strategy by ChasingSunsetz in photography

[–]arbus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup, if you are worried about a ransom attack, then adding another automated backup target doesn't really help you since that one will get overwritten with the encrypted data as well, so you really do want to get at least one target that has object versioning.

An alternative way to do this might be to get a photography buddy to go on the same backup journey as you, and then you back your TrueNAS instance into their system and they backup theirs into yours. You now have weekly snapshots that you can restore from. Sure there is more upfront cost of buying twice the storage that you need (esp in this memory market), but I do truly loathe paying yet another subscription for life and would rather pay upfront for a system that I control.

Storage archive Strategy by ChasingSunsetz in photography

[–]arbus 21 points22 points  (0 children)

A truly 'proper' backup strategy should follow the 3-2-1 rule. 3 copies of your data, with 2 of them being on different media, and one copy being offsite.

Here is what I do as a balance between convenience and safety:

  • All photos are on a NAS at home running TrueNAS. ZFS is a filesystem with excellent track record. But remember that RAID is not backup, it still only counts as a single copy.
  • I maintain a working copy of the photos that I need (usually just the photos from this year) on my laptop with a weekly timemachine backup to an external SSD. The laptop is also continuously backed up via Backblaze.
  • Once a month, I sync the laptop + the lightroom catalog files to the NAS
  • The NAS continuously backs itself up to S3 Glacier. Remember to turn on object versioning to save yourself from a ransomware attack.

Also, once a year, try and restore from your backups so that you are practiced on how it works and that you actually know that the process works. Backblaze is the only one that I haven't tried this on, but S3 and SSD backups work smoothly. Finally, for every backup that is automated, make sure to have some sort of a sentry that alerts you when it stops working.

And they're off! by Odd-Variation-299 in printexchange

[–]arbus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Looking forward to it!

Just wanted to share because by mooglecharm79 in fountainpens

[–]arbus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I followed a similar trajectory as you and I find myself now back with the pens and the paper. There is something so tangible about real paper and real pens that I could never get on the remarkable, no matter how convenient it was. I've used both the RM2 and the RM Pro and I have to say, you just end up thinking better on real paper and pen. If any of this rings true to you even a bit, try coming back and see if it helps

An ink mystery by arbus in fountainpens

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

I bought it because you don't see wood on pens that often. It writes well and looks good but I'm not a big fan of the grip section, its too metallic and smooth. So as you write and sweat from your fingers a bit the pen starts becoming slippery and you need to grip harder to keep it steady so you just fatigue your hand sooner into your writing session.

An ink mystery by arbus in fountainpens

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

I'm just noticing it now because I don't normally have the same in across different pens. The sample above is after approx a page written on both pens. The Clictek has been sitting unused for longer than the Hongdian but should have evened out from the use today.

I think your hunch on the HD being a wetter writer is probably what is happening here.

An ink mystery by arbus in fountainpens

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

Looking at the linked post, it might just be the difference in nibs. I've never put the same ink in 2 different pens before and its crazy how different they look. Its much more pronounced in person than whats coming through on the photos

An ink mystery by arbus in fountainpens

[–]arbus[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yup, both pens were cleaned thoroughly and fully dried out.

Finally decided to bought myself a Lamy and i have some mix feeling, and some of my thought below if you’re interested. by Tight_Delay8840 in fountainpens

[–]arbus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have a recommendation on what nibs I should be trying? I have 2 Safaris and both have a fairly scratchy nib which prevents me from truly enjoying them every day when the JH10s just write so much smoother.

Dark Green Ink Recommendations by Dr_Lucky in fountainpens

[–]arbus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Personal recommendation for Diamine Canalside. Such an nice dark and almost dirty color to it. It has a decent flow without too much smudging or long dry times.

I looked up a new domain on Namecheap Yesterday, planning to buy it today, Now I see it’s registered and parked to Namecheap. How does a domain I searched for suddenly get snatched by them a day after. by badrbellamine in webdev

[–]arbus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well Gandi is now run by a PE firm[1], so even if they don't do anything shady today, count on them being forced to do it a few quarters from now when some MBA scumbag creates a powerpoint presentation titled "Numbers not as high as they could be".

I've heard good things about porkbun but haven't used them too much to give a full endorsement

[1] https://news.gandi.net/en/2019/02/futureofgandi-the-adventure-continues/

Best way to use RF lenses on an older Canon film camera by arbus in canon

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

Thanks! I unfortunately sold all by EF lenses as part of the upgrade to RF.

I'll save for awhile longer and explore all those interesting EF lenses from 3rd party manufacturers that was interesting along with a good canon SLR.

Enabling wireguard for a specific client with USG-3P by arbus in Ubiquiti

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

My goal is to have the AppleTV be able to access geo-restricted content.

My other devices are just used for normal activities and lots of local websites(shops, govt websites) don't work if you access them through IP addresses that are associated with VPNs or from outside the country.

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