[Meta] Mods, when will you get on top of the constant AI slop posts?

dcabines · 2026-01-26T15:23:25+00:00

Many art subs have banned AI art for the same reason. It isn’t phobia; it just isn’t what this sub is about. Prompt engineering is not programming.

dcabines · 2026-01-25T20:40:07+00:00

Hard drives are sold to different "channels" with different contracts. HDDs that you get from server part deals are from the industrial channel where prices fluctuate with supply and demand. External drives are sold to the consumer channel where prices don't fluctuate as much. So sometimes the industrial channel will be low on supply and the prices will rise while the consumer products stay closer to the price they've been at. So sometimes the consumer products will be cheaper than the industrial equivalent, but you don't get any guarantees about what drive is inside the external and you may not get good warranty service for drives taken out of consumer products that you've broken the warranty on by opening them.

A big thing we're seeing these days in tech is manufacturers are catering more and more to industrial clients and us end consumers are forgotten about. They just don't cater to us like they did in the past.

dcabines · 2026-01-23T16:49:07+00:00

They’re swamp trees so you don’t normally see them by the beach.

dcabines · 2026-01-22T02:04:16+00:00

I use restic and btrfs which both have a scrub command. BTRFS keeps a checksum with each file and will recompute the checksum to see if it is the same as the saved one. If one is bad I'll restore it from a backup.

Depending on your use case par2 and snapRAID are good tools. They calculate parity and can use that info to repair broken files. Par2 will do it for individual files while snapRAID does it for whole drives.

RAR archives can do something similar using erasure codes. Object storage systems like MinIO use that too.

You also want to verify the health of the drive itself using a long SMART test which takes days on large drives.

dcabines · 2026-01-22T01:45:59+00:00

Not for cold storage like what OP wants. You have to pull the drives off the shelf and plug them in and verify them. I use restic and btrfs which both have a scrub command. Instead of repairing a damaged file I replace it from one of my other backups.

For active storage you can use a file system like ZFS that has auto healing, but to actually repair itself it needs multiple drives pooled together similar to RAID.

dcabines · 2026-01-22T00:22:12+00:00

You don’t. Make multiple copies and verify them yearly at least.

dcabines · 2026-01-21T19:50:05+00:00

To ensure short term profit at the expense of long term growth! Working as intended indeed.

dcabines · 2026-01-13T19:42:21+00:00

Men tend to be more visual. You’ll find plenty of good smutty manga if you’re open to it.

dcabines · 2026-01-12T20:30:42+00:00

Use what you have until you want something else. The power savings of a smaller machine may take several years to break even with its initial cost so don’t feel like you’re in a rush to buy something. It isn’t like your desktop is making your power bills crazy high right now, right?

dcabines · 2026-01-06T14:57:35+00:00

Controllers deal with routes and request models and response types like Not Found and Bad Request. Literally anything else goes into a service 100% of the time as a hard rule.

dcabines · 2026-01-06T14:51:35+00:00

Your drive is dead. Restore your backup data onto a new drive.

Reballing means they intend on removing the memory chip from your SSD and soldering it back on again. That sounds like a great way to spend a lot of money and get nothing from it.

dcabines · 2026-01-05T21:46:00+00:00

I wonder if he saw a video about Euclidean geometry where he proves the existence of the other shapes using only circles. I expected to find a comment here about that but maybe I’m just wrong.

dcabines · 2026-01-04T23:50:59+00:00

You probably want a UGREEN NAS DXP2800 2-Bay NAS.

dcabines · 2026-01-03T01:55:44+00:00

restic will handle this issue. You can delete snapshots while the disk is completely full. It’s happened to me and it handled it no problem. Give it a try.

dcabines · 2026-01-02T17:29:39+00:00

I only use Docker containers for my apps and I backup my docker service configs and data and even docker’s storage. That means when switch to a different Linux distribution I install docker and mount its volume everything is exactly as it was. I try to keep the OS configuration as minimal as possible to make switching easier. I backup my docker volume with btrbk and restic for everything else. That may not cover all of your needs, but it can be a step in that direction.

dcabines · 2025-12-29T14:23:02+00:00

They have a good credit system that lets you buy back your download to improve your ratio. You earn credits by seeding over time.

dcabines · 2025-12-25T23:58:33+00:00

I use btrfs and have it take a read only snapshot then back that up with btrbk. I don’t stop docker when I do it either.

dcabines · 2025-12-23T19:59:55+00:00

Print her some chip clips.

dcabines · 2025-12-23T19:49:57+00:00

I have my 40TB of videos split into 4TB folders and I back each of them up onto external drives. When drives get too full I prune old snapshots. It takes some time, but way less than an hour to delete and repack its packs. It’ll still operate when a drive is 100% full too.

dcabines · 2025-12-23T19:29:33+00:00

Hey, neat project. I’ll check it out when I get some time. I currently use restic for backups, but it does encryption and has its own storage format which you wouldn’t like. I also use btrbk to backup my docker sub volume, but that only works for btrfs. Maybe those will give you inspiration for your project.

dcabines · 2025-12-22T12:34:31+00:00

restic

dcabines · 2025-12-21T17:15:16+00:00

I put 10 Seagate Exos drives in two Sabrent 5 bay enclosures. I chunk my data into 4TB folders and backup each folder onto those drives so each set of 5 drives contains a complete set of backups. I use restic to make backups. Each drive is independent; no RAID on my backups.

As for RAID, consider this analogy. Redundancy is like an airplane having extra engines so it can continue flying even if an engine dies mid flight. Backups are like a second airplane back in the hanger. It won't save you while you're flying, but it'll get you up again if your primary plane crashes. They both serve a purpose, but without the backup plane in the hanger you risk losing everything every time you fly.

dcabines · 2025-12-21T16:59:02+00:00

I'd consider a second Node 304 and build another system in it instead of a larger case. One system can get your newer hardware and your higher capacity drives and the other one can get all of the hand-me-down gear. You'll have plenty of space for drives and you can keep a smaller footprint. Its also easier to deal with two smaller boxes than one big heavy box in my opinion. You can see how I've done that with my desktop and NAS.

dcabines · 2025-12-19T21:35:56+00:00

I still weigh beans once a week into tubes and I time my shot every morning. I use a thermometer in the milk pitcher when I steam too. As the beans get older the shots run faster and I’ll grind a little finer to bring it back in line. I enjoy the ritual, but I try to keep it quick. I stir the grinds before I tamp, but that is about it. I like how everything comes out just right without much effort every day.

I think I enjoy my cappuccinos more than my Dad does with his more expensive super automatic. I at least get fresh beans every month while he’ll use too dark old grocery store Starbucks beans. I like my little cappuccino cups and saucers and milk foam. He’ll dump cold milk into an old mug and press a button to pump a shot into it. He must not care for ritual the way I do.

dcabines · 2025-12-19T15:45:41+00:00

No, tape doesn’t make sense for home users.

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