[-] FierroG@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
  • A udev rule that won't work in my new distro (cachyos) for no apparent reason when it worked fine everywhere else

  • Obs using way too much cpu for no reason even in a clean setup at idle

  • Having to select what window will be captured to the obs canvas every time

  • Having to swap active audio outputs until volume stops being too low at every restart.

That's about all of it, I think.

[-] FierroG@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

I get what you meant, I was just making a little joke, though I feel like there's a huge difference between shitty ui that can't be bypassed and reasonable ui that still can't be bypassed. The latter is usually managable and tolerable.

I personally prefer having both options but in general I go with a UI.

[-] FierroG@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

otherwise you end up with windows

Windows without the garbage? I'm okay with that.

[-] FierroG@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Have seen similar comments on that specifically on mint before, does mint have a particular problem with it? I used timeshift to restore manjaro a couple of times and it was very confusing but I assumed it was just me.

[-] FierroG@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Thanks, I have my important files manually backed up every now and then on two different drives in my desktop, this idea is part of moving away from stressing so much and I'm probably going to abandon the raid idea for the near future and instead do scheduled backups (and maybe checkups?). I'll keep in mind all that stuff about temps too when I do get an oportunity to make a suitable raid array build (without individual usb controllers between the drives and the server).

I have checked my data recently, haven't found any issues. I appreciate all the info and help!

[-] FierroG@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Haha I see what you mean, I meant as in changing from one to another, not using snail drives for a swap partition.

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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by FierroG@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

Before you scream at your screen, I am aware this setup isn't ideal, to say the least, my Self-hosting has been composed of a laptop with a usb carry with a 2.5 1tb hard drive. I recent made up my mind about getting a couple 4 tb server hdd (heard barracuda are relatively silent) to run software raid 1, since I can't find a budget double bay carry (that I can purchase locally) I've decided I'll get a couple 3.5 inch usb cases and get a splitter to run the power from just just one brick.

My question is regarding resiliency, I get occasional blackouts and low tension every now and then, a few times a year but it can be a few times in a day. I've never had hardware dying because of it and I don't have a UPS, but I worry I could be risking data corruption or something swapping to this setup because of the extra power those drives will need being fed from the wall instead of the laptop (the laptop feeds the current drive over usb alone and it has a battery) which could be abruptly cut off every now and then. Right now, the worst this has caused has been having to reboot the system because it got unmounted but never had a loss of data from this.

Am I worrying for nothing? Would it be just the same? Should I just put this off until (if) I can afford the drives plus a ups? So far I've had my server for basically free, but I'm running out of space for family photos and I kinda have to upgrade.

Edit: Thanks a lot for all the thoughtful responses! What I've learnt from them so far:

  • ZFS (what's used for software RAID) takes some extra memory and might not be the best idea for a memory constrained system.
  • In this case of mirrored drives, it's better to schedule backups than to try a flimsy raid array usb abomination, didn't even think of that as an option
  • Sudden power loss is likely to corrupt files
  • Following the previous item, a UPS is more important than I thought, my laptop's battery probably saved me from more corruption than I was aware of. I might have to prioritize that over the expansion.

Learned a lot so far, thank you all so much!

[-] FierroG@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I did test it on manjaro kde, not exactly the same, last test run seemed fine in everything but some games and having to select the game each time on obs, I was actually preferring it over x11 if not for some problems

[-] FierroG@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

You're inserting blame on Wayland that wasn't there.

[-] FierroG@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I am yet to have a successful testrun of wayland, closest I've had was everything seemed to work fine but some games would straight up not work. I'm sure it would be just fine if I installed a distro that had it by default but at that point it's way beyond the convenience I've heard so much about.

[-] FierroG@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

That would be terrible in the long run, they said it would be competitive with pc pricing, not consoles (it's a pc after all), so it would just be used as precedent to skyrocket console prices

[-] FierroG@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It's no the prettiest out there but it's not ugly at all, there's no place for violence since you don't even see any other character outside of emails

[-] FierroG@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

What age range? I've seen "house flipper" give great results, I think in general those simulator games that give the dopamine hit of completing tasks are good incentives, especially chill games (nothing time based, let them take their time). I've found something like "a little to the left" is not actually great for that, it requires precision and an eye for pattern recognition that just causes frustration when you think you got it but nothing happens.

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