I used to store a bunch of hard drives with ZFS snapshots of my stuff in the garage. Not ideal, but better than nothing, and it’s technically a separate building lol
I only have roughly 5TB of data though.
Definitely looking to improve the situation, cause at the moment I have no offsite backups at all :/
Fair point!
Depends on what you use the platform for. I’ve used Twitter as a way to keep up with real time developments, shout at companies whose support does not respond to me and read some news stories occasionally. For the people part I usually went to Reddit.
Now for people like me, Mastodon does not seem to cut it. I’m not caving in and starting to use the official Twitter app, but the fact I’ve lost the platform that covers those use cases is kind of sad.
Judging by user count alone is deceiving, in my opinion. We need to look at how many “big Twitter personas / companies” are moving to Mastodon, because they are the ones generating content and increasing traction.
As it is right now, I only see some people creating Mastodon accounts and posting 1:1 with what they still post on Twitter. This is not enough.
But at the same time, all migrations take time and we will only be able to determine a “winner” after months if not years of this process taking place.
I’m crossing my fingers and hoping for the best still.
I just hope we won’t end up having what used to be Reddit (or Twitter) fragmented across 10 different platforms. That would definitely suck :/
Yeah I love how you can’t be critical of capitalism without going full tankie, and vice versa.
Something something radicalisation of thought.
We are one centralised and pretty Reddit alternative away from people flocking to it.
As swanky as it sounds, I doubt fediverse with all its quirks, bugs, instability, confusion etc. will be able to sustain or even gain mass adoption.
I want this to be false, but we have Mastodon as an example and it ain’t getting the traction it needs to replace or even properly compete with Twitter. Especially not once BlueSky opens up, assuming it will happen.
Cold storage / archiving backups are both valid use cases for hard drives in my opinion.
It really depends what kind of drivers we are talking about. Consumer grade 2.5” drivers are indeed quite slow and not reliable. But some SAS enterprise grade hard drives from 2014 are still working fine and are actually good enough in terms of speed if you access the data on them via wireless network (cause it’s speed is often a bottleneck, not the speed of the drive).
Overall, it’s storage and it can be used. Just make sure to run something like raidz2 / raid6 to minimise a chance of losing your data. And well, you’d need backups too.
Unclassified -> possible carcinogen -> probable carcinogen -> carcinogen
As red meat is classified as probable carcinogen, I’d not worry too much about aspartame being substantially more risky than that. Until we have more evidence that is.
I’d be way more worried about ultra processed foods instead, and having aspartame in something would definitely point towards that food being processed.
Depends on what you want to self-host. In general, I would advise against self-hosting anything before you familiarise yourself with the basics of *nix, networking and cyber security.
You at least need to know enough to make sure that whatever you host is only available within your local network and is inaccessible from the outside.
Once that’s ensured, go nuts, experiment, learn, evolve.
In terms of how to start, really depends on your budget, what hardware you can spare, how much space you have at your place etc.
For the most basic playground it’s enough to have a raspberry pi or similar, or a very old laptop / desktop computer.
For something more swanky you can get old Dell servers (e.g. R420) online for around 100$ or so. They are quite power hungry though. Or you can get yourself a NUC and use that.
If all of this sounds like too much work, just get yourself QNAP / Synology NAS and see what it can do for you (it is way more limited in terms of options, but easier to setup and you can still have your Plex / file sharing / docker containers).
This does sound interesting! Would need some tooling to lay my paranoia to rest though, and some trust towards the other person.