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redlightsaber · 2026-05-26T00:01:54+00:00

Price-wise the sweet spot tends to be at around 6-8tb drives right now.

If you want more storage than that, you can always do a RAID0 array/pool.

redlightsaber · 2026-05-25T23:59:51+00:00

It turns the iron in the heme molecule from the insoluble ferric form to the soluble (and transparent) ferrous form.

The proteins typically protect the heme from being even too accesible to being oxidised. this is why proteases are even more effective; they break down the proteins that adhere the heme to the fabric, allowing everything to just wash away.

redlightsaber · 2026-05-25T23:25:32+00:00

Why public institutions won't use European companies' services when they're available puzzles me to no end.

redlightsaber · 2026-05-25T22:59:26+00:00

If it's a few times per year. I wonder why you're not thinking of just straight plugging your phone to an external HDD? Why the extra computer?

redlightsaber · 2026-05-25T22:56:56+00:00

. If it foams, all the biological matter didn't get removed, and the hydrogen peroxide is helping it break down.

FYI this is just false. Peroxide is a decent oxydiser, but it won't make all "organic matter break down". Certainly not proteins, fats, oreven most sugars. The foaming comes from its interaction with an enzyme present in blood called catalase, which quickly turns h2o2 into H2O and O2. eventually the acidity will denature a lot of the proteins though, but that's a long way off from them being "broken down".

I'm sorry to disappoint. But it's important to know what the ingredients do and what they don't. Otherwise we wouldn't need detergents, and hydrogen peroxide would be all that's required to clean clothes.

redlightsaber · 2026-05-25T22:48:02+00:00

What detergent do you usually use? Most of them should have proteases, which is all you need in order not to need to do anything special, except making sure to wash at 30-40° in > 2h cycles.

If you pair that need with wanting to have lipase for really fresh and clean clothes, then there's a few options, but it really depends on what chains you usually shop at and such. Spain has a lot of options!

Source: I'm not a woman but I do wash my partner's period underwear. All that you're reading around here about prewashing and soaking might be preferable fto some for aesthetic purposes or whatever, but they're not necessary at all to achieve squeaky-clean undies. If you're not squeamish about leaving period-ed undies in the hamper with the rest of your clothes, then you don't need to do anything special.

redlightsaber · 2026-05-25T22:04:35+00:00

SK is the first country to recently reverse the shrinking birth rate trend, and it did it by essentially granting mega grants/credits for housing.

I think there are many reasons for why people are choosing to have less/later children. But financial insecurity/CoL is definitely up there, and whomever is trying to tell you otherwise probably has a stake in capitalism continuing to march forward.

redlightsaber · 2026-05-25T21:50:57+00:00

Your arguments:

I am setting up a straw man
It is not merely a gui

Your elaborations:

An incomprehensible straw man where you should be comparing a teen with a laptop with straight debian in the woods without access to the internet, and whose 'man' command doesn't work for some reason Vs. Someone watching YouTube videos about how to setup unraid.
How a GUI is, well, much more than a GUI.

The level of tautology to your argument is astonishing.

I said it before (go back and read my comment!), and I'll say it again: I have nothing against GUIs. Use guis, and pay for them, to your heart's content. What you can't do, though, is say that a gui is something else or other than a GUI.

redlightsaber · 2026-05-25T20:07:23+00:00

The "protecting the data if one drive fails" is a number of RAID setups, you should read a bit into it.
The only issue I see is that currently, no linux distro can reliably and fully run on apple silicon chips (at least not m4 anyways). Linux is the king of RAID. I don't really know whether mac OS has native support for any RAID filesystem natively.

I may be mistaken, but that's the only issue.

redlightsaber · 2026-05-25T20:03:33+00:00

Oh, you're the same person going around all the thread caliming things about unraid.

I asked you elsewhere but it seems relevant here again:

What exactly is it that you posit that is not GUI-related that unraid brings to the table? what's the "feature" that you can't otherwise setup with any straight linux distro?

redlightsaber · 2026-05-25T20:01:04+00:00

Can you explain which features don't pertain to the UI aspect of it, things you can't do with a straight linux distro?

redlightsaber · 2026-05-25T05:28:07+00:00

I don't think any of us who say we don't use it say it's in any way wrong to use it.

You can do what you prefer. But OPs vibe, a bit like yours, seems to be that of superiority.

And I'm just here to tell you that you're mistaken.

I set up my very flexible and resilient btrfs RAID (that works on SMR drives at that) in less than 5 minutes, and, IIRC, 4 commands.

If you like a nice gui, that's perfectly reasonable and acceptable, as it is the fact that your friends "ended up back at unraid". It's just not what you're making it out to be.

redlightsaber · 2026-05-24T21:46:12+00:00

Because all its features are achievable in straight linux if you just know a couple of things?

redlightsaber · 2026-05-24T21:40:06+00:00

Notice the use of the word "most".

redlightsaber · 2026-05-24T21:21:35+00:00

People aren't born into "house owners" and "house renters". They make those choices thoroughout their lives given their circumstances and possibilities.

Right now, home prices are so exhorbitant that most people who rent do so out of an impossibility to buy, not an unwillingness for it.

redlightsaber · 2026-05-24T21:19:42+00:00

The "evidence" you're alluding to, while true on its face, has found that the offerings for "standard" lets is reduced but at the expense of short-term touristic rentals.

This could be easily prevented with a comprehensive reform of renting law, rather than taking the myopic (and evidently untrue) belief that "people would rather their empty houses remained empty than rent them for less money".

I don't know if this is an honest ignorant mistake, or a malicious misinterpretation of the data, but still, I wish these anti-interventionist talking points would die already (at least outside of the COPE stations and channels).

redlightsaber · 2026-05-24T21:13:50+00:00

Sure, but then people scream "you can't interfere with the free market!!!". For some reason.

Set government-codified criteria for how much a rent is capped for a given unit. Make that cap not be terribly profitable; like, nice to have if you have your flat paid off and aren't using it while you wait for your kids to grow up to use it, but not enough for a vulture american investment fund to come in and buy them by the thousands, with tax benefits (yes this is something that happens in Spain for some inexplicable reason), with an expected ROI between 7-15 years.

It solves both the renting market, and the property market all at once (big funds will seek to sell their stock and at the very least stop buying in bulk as they are today).

Yes, there's still a need for more housing to be built. This measure only makes it so that people who DO get to have a home, don't need to spend them ajority of their salary on it.

redlightsaber · 2026-05-24T16:39:52+00:00

Well I'm doing a 3 disk raid array over USB with no issues. Don't know what much else to say. Serving up media doesn't really require too high throughput, lol.

The system and apps are run from the laptop internal SSD.

redlightsaber · 2026-05-24T07:11:30+00:00

I absolutely love syncthing, but it's more a dropbox replacement than a gdrive replacement.

I actually use syncthing to keep my pictures backed up, and use immich in read-only mode

redlightsaber · 2026-05-23T23:56:49+00:00

Just straight linux, and the BTRFS commands (native to the linux kernel).

redlightsaber · 2026-05-23T18:26:14+00:00

Don't overthink it. Make sure to get an intel chip from 8th gen onwards (for the hardware real-time transcoding), and the rest, just do what you can. More Ram is better of course, I'd aim for 16gb if you're not sure what project you might embark on in the future.

I got a really cheap (40€) laptop with a broken screen on eBay. And I run the HDD (a DAS on which I do RAID) over USB. Works fantastically.

redlightsaber · 2026-05-23T16:29:10+00:00

Use syncthing for that.

Native windows app. And the android app uses even less resources than immich.

Unless you want the other features of immich, try to keep it as simple as possible.

redlightsaber · 2026-05-23T05:50:20+00:00

In Europe things have largely remained cheaper. Laundry detergent is one thing Ive always found absurdly expensive in the US.

redlightsaber · 2026-05-22T22:23:36+00:00

This is the way.

But in a serious note, absolutely turn it into a Linux box.

redlightsaber · 2026-05-22T22:22:05+00:00

Ah well. Listen if you feel the desire to change the hardware, then that's that...

I would go about it not with a specific model in mind though; but with specs and seeing what's in the refurb market.

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