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@Coldmoon @Steamymoomilk I mean, a few months ago I bought a 10TB used HGST drive from 2018 (from goharddrive). The bigger issue imo is buying a drive that old and having only a 90 day warranty. The 10TB drive I purchased came with a 5yr warranty.

@Smash @Limonene Right, it *was* proprietary. Which is why adoption of it by free software devs is so slow. Ubuntu only got dotnet packages in the past few years! (RIP @vorlon )

@sxan @shortrounddev jmp.chat uses XMPP, and it’s a very viable replacement for Google Voice (and generic SIP options like voip.ms), so that’s what got me back on the XMPP train. No one else other than my family is using it with me, though, but it’s still nice to have SMS, (encrypted & decentralized) family chat, and IRC (via biboumi bridge) in one desktop client.

@WhyJiffie @kratoz29

> is there such a problem? honest question. But I think that might be a different issue

Yes, that is a problem. We’re still in a world where you need to manually enable port forwarding in order to get better seeding for bittorrent clients, and if you have CGNAT you’re SOL (short of using a VPN or something to bounce through an external host).

It’s likely because torrent software is older (& in crappier languages), and came about before CGNAT was a thing.

@mesamunefire @cm0002 Voice + Syncthing-fork is what I use. It syncs between an audiobook directory on my laptop and my phone.

@towerful @baatliwala For real though, I use old laptops for self-hosting so that I never have to dig up a monitor & keyboard.

@unexposedhazard @HelloRoot this

@tuxec @zygo_histo_morpheus Is “soyware” related to the pejorative “soyboy”?

@Shimitar @whysofurious Same. Getting an enclosure that can properly use linux’s uas driver rather than the usb-storage driver is a night-and-day difference. Read the reviews and get a dedicated single-drive enclosure for like $30, and don’t overlook cooling. Sometimes an external usb fan is a better option than an enclosure with built-in fans but poor airflow.

@Sunny Backups are done weekly, using Restic (and with ‘–read-data-subset=9%’ to verify that the backup data is still valid).

But that’s also in addition to doing nightly Snapraid syncs for larger media, and Syncthing for photos & documents (which means I have copies on 2+ machines).

@werefreeatlast I do this with yggdrasil. Every yggdrasil host gets its own unique private IPv6 address (routeable only to other yggdrasil hosts). As long as you have a single yggdrasil host that’s located in public (I use a VPS for this), you can reach any of the yggdrasil hosts from any of the other ones via their IPv6 address. I then map those addresses with DNS, so I don’t have to ever type them.

@ohshit604 @AbidanYre Nah, they are still doing releases, but they’re hidden. You have to combine the past few releases to unlock the url for the latest release.

[I’m joking, of course.]

@sxan @elyviere In particular, there are two gl.inet models that you can install openwrt on: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/best-newcomer-routers-2024/189050/2

The other models run modified openwrt but don’t necessarily allow you to install a stock openwrt release.

@Decipher0771 @victory Neat, I didn’t know keepalived was still active and popular. https://bugs.debian.org/144100

@cm0002 @aberrate_junior_beatnik That looks like a 15A receptacle (https://www.icrfq.net/15-amp-vs-20-amp-outlet/). If it was installed on a 20A circuit (with a 20A breaker and wiring sized for 20A), then the receptacle was the weak point. Electricians often do this with multiple 15A receptacles wired together for Reasons (https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/12763/why-is-it-safe-to-use-15-a-receptacles-on-a-20-a-circuit) that I disagree with for exactly what your picture shows. That said, overloading it is not SUPER likely to cause a fire - just destroy the outlet and appliance plugs.

@ripcord @GnuLinuxDude The lifecycle of my laptops:

- years 1-5: I use them.

- years 5-10: my kids use them (generally beating the crap out of them, covering them in boogers/popsicle juice, dropping them, etc).

- years 10-15: low-power selfhosted server which tucks away nicely, and has its own screen so that when something breaks I don’t need to dig up an hdmi cable and monitor.

EDIT: because the OP asks for hardware: my current backup & torrent machine is a 4th gen i3 latitude e7240.

@Disaster @Sunny I found tmobile’s 5g to be reasonably priced ($50/mo) and solid speeds. Much better than spectrum, but it depends on how close to a tower you are.

Sadly, https://www.nycmesh.net/ isn’t out in central queens yet.

@meldrik @qaz I’ve got a bunch of older, smaller drives, and as they fail I’m slowly transitioning to much more efficient (and larger) HGST helium drives. I don’t have measurements, but anecdotally a dual-drive USB dock with crappy 1.5A power adapter (so 18W) couldn’t handle spinning up two older drives but could handle two HGST drives.

@chronicledmonocle @sugar_in_your_tea This is why I love yggdrasil. Thanks to having a VPS running it that all of my hosts globally can connect to, I can just use IPv6 for everything and reverse proxy using those IPv6 addresses where I need to. Once hosts are connected and on my private yggdrasil network, I stop caring about CGNAT or IPv4 at all other than to maybe create public IPv4 access to a service.

@Atemu Drives from the mid/late-2000s in particular were just poorly behaved for me. Recent drives (2014+) have been much better. Who knows how 2030s drives will behave? So I will continue scrubbing data as I swap out older drives for newer ones.