PatrickYaa

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 6 days ago (83 children)

I have the feeling that since the vote is over, a lot fewer people are here to defend their "ron't vote for harris because palestine" stance. Like something was switched off...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Egypt is great for diving. The nature on the Sinai peninsula is at least interesting, if not gorgeous in places. Political instability and the general culture do mean that you can have a bad time there, especially as a woman.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you don't have enough sata ports on the mobo (the optiplex 7010 has 1x Sata), you'll need a pci sata controller, is my understanding. Not sure what other possibilities there are to connect more hdds...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

As this is self-hosted, I feel the majority will reccommend against a Synology or similar pre-built, closed source solution.
At a budget of 150€ it will probably be challenging to build a whole system with new parts, but it can certainly be achieved with two or three generations old, second hand hardware.
The easiest way would probably be to keep a lookout for old office midi-towers (Dell Optiplexes and similar). Those usually have a few pci slots to throw an hba into and hook up a few hard drives. The mounting of the harddrives itself will need to be handled with uhm... Creative solutions. Depending on the system, you'll probably want to upgrade the ram. And if you want easier Hardware handling, you may be able to just throw the system in a different case later on.
Another solution, and maybe even cheaper would be an old NUC or other mini-PCs. To be honest, I have no idea how people manage to use those as NAS or how you are supposed to manage multiple hard drives with them. External enclosures? Then there's also more Pis and other micro PCs. Same challenges.
So, this writeup has not actually adressed your question: what's the /best/ solution?
I also have no idea. It really depends on what you want, what your budget is, how much you want to fidget around. How much space do you have to put a system? What is on offer around you? Does the company/university/school you work at maybe offer hardware they would otherwise need to dispose of? Check craigslist/marketplaces/ebay.
I am partial to the midi tower approach, as it offers a good deal of flexibility, depending on the included motherboard.
Hope I could offer at least some help :)

//Edith: The least energy consumption would probably be the Pi, but depending on how much HDDs you add, this will also depend on what management System you run and what HDDs you use (some NAS drives come with some powersaving features). If you are in any position to do so, talk to your landlord or Eigentümergemeinschaft and get a Balkonkraftwerk. Those 800Watts will more than offset your Homelab needs.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

That's not the case everywhere. This is not an individual problem in some countries, it is systemic. That sometimes includes the US. Even Europe has countries with undrinkable tap water.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Everyone on Lemmy is a bot but you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Howdy. I have a "homeserver" that I'd like to actually start using. What's currently keeping me from it are... Permissions.
I have TrueNas Scale running on top of Proxmox, and I can't for the life of me not access NFS Shares from other VMs (specifically a Debian VM that I use as Docker Host) that I host in Proxmox. Plox hlp.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the additonal link. It's interesting that Signal didn't provide the last time the user connected to Signal here, as that was information which was requested and information that they have...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's other ways to donate to Signal, including crypto listed on their website.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

That is not what I'm trying, no. Sorry if it came across like that.
My point is, that this isn't an effective proof of a zero knowledge approach. In their blogpost, Signal says they don't store anything, but this specific instance of a search warrant doesn't serve to prove that.
It is great of them that they publish when and what they are asked to disclose, that practice is definitly appreciated. I do trust Signal, it is my main messenger.
This is just not the stresstest @[email protected] makes it out to be in the top comment, imo.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

Well, i'm not fluent in legalese, but isn't the search order also exclusively asking for those two datapoints and nothing more? They're not asking for message timestamps e.g. or other metadata.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It is absolutely worth watching. If you are generally open to animated shows, it is definitly a great experience, imo. At times it does shine through that this is a kids show, especially the first few episodes, but that tapers off within the first season. I would recommend just watching it from s1e1 of the original show (the animated show with focus on aang). After that go ahead and watch the korra series :) If you want a single episode to watch as an appetizer, I would either reccommend "The Storm" (S1E12) or "Tales of Ba Sing Se" (S2E15).

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