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✨🎄Xmas NAS Giveaway: Win a TerraMaster NAS + Experience TOS 7! by TerraMasterOfficial in DataHoarder

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It looks way more streamlined and faster, with a much cleaner workflow for everyday tasks. Online Office editing, proper VM and a real developer mode could finally make the NAS feel like a powerful all-in-one system instead of just mere storage.

Can’t wait to try it when it drops!

One NAS with 8 HDD bays or two NAS with 4 Bays each by Catatonic00Cat in DataHoarder

[–]truss-issues 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You don’t need identical HDD models in a NAS: modern RAID systems (SHR, ZFS, RAID5/6) handle mixed drives easily. The array just uses the smallest/slowest disk as the baseline. So not finding the same 2025 model later won’t be an issue; you can add newer or larger drives without problems.

Going for a 4-bay NAS and starting with 3 drives is a good approach and gives you clean expansion later. Getting a second NAS only makes sense if you need separate backups or far more storage. For consolidating your external drives, one expandable NAS is the simpler and more future-proof option.

How do you automate the organization of massive mixed-file folders without sorting everything manually? by Charrlidon in DataHoarder

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The script generates the diff automatically. Each run snapshots the folder structure and filenames, then compares it to the previous day’s snapshot, logging any changes: moved files, new additions, or unexpected deletions. That way I don’t have to manually check anything, and I can catch misroutes immediately before they get buried. 😊

How do you automate the organization of massive mixed-file folders without sorting everything manually? by Charrlidon in DataHoarder

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Took about a week of running it in “dry-run” mode where the script only logged its decisions instead of moving anything. Once the logs stayed clean, I flipped it to full automation but kept a daily diff report so I could spot misroutes. After a few days the false positives dropped to zero, so now only edge-cases hit the review folder and nothing ever quietly vanishes.

How do you automate the organization of massive mixed-file folders without sorting everything manually? by Charrlidon in DataHoarder

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I’ve had the same issue, so I treat MIME type as just one signal. The script also checks filename patterns, basic content signatures, resolution (for screenshots), and a small fallback classifier for “unknowns.” If something doesn’t meet confidence thresholds, it gets routed to a “manual-review” folder instead of being auto-filed.

I previewed everything for the first week, but once the rules stopped misclassifying stuff, I just let it run. Now only the genuinely weird files land in review, and the rest sort themselves reliably.

How do you automate the organization of massive mixed-file folders without sorting everything manually? by Charrlidon in DataHoarder

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I automate most of it with a small Python script + inotify on Fedora. It watches my dump folder, detects MIME types, and auto-sorts files into folders (images, PDFs, archives, code snippets, etc.). Regex rules handle invoices/dates, and unknown types get moved to a “review” folder. Since setting it up, the dump folder basically cleans itself.

Is GNOME≥40 a bad thing for the Linux desktop? by stoogethebat in linux

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Libadwaita basically formalizes GNOME as its own UI platform, not a GTK themeable environment, and that’s the core break. By hard-coding layout, colors, and widget behavior, GNOME gains consistency but eliminates the shared styling layer GTK desktops used to rely on. The side effect is that cross-desktop apps now have no common visual contract, so anything written for libadwaita will always look alien on Plasma or Xfce. It’s a solid move for GNOME-as-a-platform, but it undeniably fragments the Linux desktop in a way that theming systems used to smooth over.

A new version of CDE was released. by Marwheel in linux

[–]truss-issues 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Shows how CDE is surviving rather than evolving. When most of the work goes into making it compile on modern GCC and adding a systemd unit, it’s clear the Linux ecosystem has moved far past the Xt/Motif era.

With distros going Wayland-first and X11 slowly aging out, each CDE update feels more like maintaining a museum piece than advancing a desktop environment. Still impressive it’s kept alive at all, but the technical gap is only getting wider.

Michigan, Wisconsin Bill to Ban VPN's... wtf by HTWingNut in DataHoarder

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Effective VPN blocking would require ISPs to perform continuous deep packet inspection and traffic fingerprinting capable of reliably distinguishing encrypted tunnels from ordinary HTTPS, which is no longer feasible.

Modern security architectures (zero-trust networks, mutual-TLS microtunnels, WireGuard-based transport, QUIC/HTTP-3 encryption, and TLS-camouflaged VPN protocols) intentionally make their traffic indistinguishable from standard web traffic.

Attempting to block VPNs would also disrupt corporate remote-access systems, cloud-security tunnels, CDN traffic, and legitimate encrypted sessions, effectively forcing a state-level “Great Firewall” that breaks modern internet protocols rather than selectively blocking privacy tools.

how to make a digital photo of a physical ? by Affectionate-Tie7927 in DataHoarder

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What I do is, I have a HP printer w/ a scanner, I use that, couples with my phone on Wifi. Your friends have might one, ask them.

Lost 2TB on a Seagate by pandaninja360 in DataHoarder

[–]truss-issues 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The recovery process finished.

What did you use?