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3 months agoYay for DBML! I’m so excited to stop using dbdiagram haha
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I have a cheap homekit thermostat that I use with home assistant. Being able to turn it off for movies or during peak energy hours is nice. What was most helpful, however, was putting temperature and humidity sensors in every room, so that I could move around heat generating stuff to balance the temps throughout my apartment. I moved my server and gaming pc tower out of my home office. The temperature spread went from 8 deg F to 2 deg F.
Do you have a repo with your NixOS config for your NAS? TrueNAS and Home Assistant are the last non-NixOS VMs I’m running haha
it looks like you already have a node 804 case and the ability to build a computer, so I would avoid it unless you are looking for used enterprise gear and are okay with the tradeoffs that come with it.
My experience with UGreen
years ago, I got a USB switching device from them to switch keyboard and mouse between two computers. That device was not built to USB spec and fried the PCB on my fancy mechanical keyboard.
last year, I bought their fancy 300W desktop USB-C charger to make a laptop charging station at home. Within 8 months, the device gave off an awful smell and 2 of the ports died. UGreen would not replace the charger. These are apparently a common problem with them:
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1577968-ugreen-300w-port-c3-dead/#comment-16479321
My experience with Synology
Years ago, I had a Synology NAS, and used their recommended proprietary software RAID. The power supply eventually died and took the motherboard with it. Replacement parts were not available, and there was no warranty coverage. This was before I knew about good backup practices, so my options were to buy another overpriced, non-repairable Synology NAS appliance, or forfeit my data. I considered the data a loss, built a TrueNAS machine, and never looked back.
Your experience with a proprietary NAS appliance may not be exactly the same, and they may be better these days, but having proprietary software inherently means that you cannot be sure that the software choices they make are best practice and for your benefit, or if they are designed to lock you in or increase profits in some other way.
As others have said, OpenMediaVault is a decent software alternative to TrueNAS.
No matter what you decide to go with, make sure you are following proper 3-2-1 backup protocols for any data you care about. restic to backblaze b2 seems to be the best offsite backup system currently.
Shop has been purposefully making their app worse to use as a package tracker while filling it with ads and making it the slowest, most bloated app I have the misfortune of using. Nothing about it is “great”.
As others have said, invidious is not dead, and they’re working on factoring out the part that interfaces with YouTube itself, so that updates to react to changes in YouTube will be able to be implemented much faster.
If you like ansible, MASH works pretty well.
2·4 months agoThey do that, too. They’re on Mastodon as well. They’re just doing POSSE. These social media platforms are basically just where they advertise their articles and sometimes get tips for new stories from readers. That’s outside of how they use them for investigating stories about those platforms.
4·4 months agosimilar to ImageMagick,
jpegtranis great for lossless jpeg transformations. You can even extend jpegs using the “crop” function, which can be very useful for batch-processing images, even though it’s hardcoded to middle grey.
I worked on IceCube. Gen-2 is really exciting and will unlock lots of new analyses.
I mean, try to sell it for whatever you want to sell it for. I personally wouldn’t take it if you were giving it away.
It’s important context that it has an i3-2370M, a low-end CPU from 2012. On eBay I’m seeing an Dell laptop with an i5-4310U (a mid-range CPU from 2014) also with 16GB memory and 1TB SSD for $150. I could maybe see someone paying $100 for yours, but I doubt it.
This is, unfortunately, not borne out by the data. I wish we had this kind of impact, but no, Harris did pretty much as good as Biden in battleground states, which is very good compared to previous elections. Rural votes for Trump just came out way harder for racist scare tactics than ever before.
bc they’re all vipers. some are just more useful than others.
Not self hosted necessarily, but TagStudio is an interesting project worth keeping an eye on https://docs.tagstud.io/