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  • Podman can use different tools under the hood, will check which one I am using.

  • I use an expensive JBOD USB/e-SATA BOX to host 4 ssd's (nowadays, but those has been hdd's until 2022) connected via usb3. The box has a huge fan too.

    I think the issue is not USB itself but how cheap you go with your enclosure...

    No, can confirm no data corruption. Can I be 100% sure? No I cannot of course.

    I use EXT4, which again never gave me issues whatsoever. So far.

  • I have been running two usb3 based raid-1 arrays for over 10 years and I had zero failures, zero corruption's and plenty of speed (ssd's over dedicated usb3 ports).

    The disks are on a UPS (a very small one) to avoid powerlosses due to power failures.

  • Don't run docker, so far it has proven quite insecure, and that was by design at first because docker was created for development environments and not for deployment.

    Later docker added better security, because they understood the value in deployment too. But many distro are still insecure by default and it takes both the effort of sysadmins and image developers to deploy securely docker containers.

    I switched to Podman: no daemon, no socket, no root operations out of the box. And the transition is basically seamless too.

  • I answer for myself. On linux the neat tool called "mediainfo" will print MKVs ,metadata, and that includes the real ISO title.

  • Fellow Gentooer, Gentoo rocks!

  • Stable? I never had instability of any kind with gentoo like... Ever... Except for faulty hardware (dead USB Ethernet card, bad memory stick...).

    Gentoo let's you build the most skinny and bloatless server you can, just what you need how you want it. No bullshit, no choices made by others (Ubuntu I look at you). And optimized for your hardware too.

    Today's compile time is ridiculously small, so that's not a down point for Gentoo.

    Also, its so damn adherent to the true Linux philosophy that its surprisingly logical and coherent in it's internal organization that doesn't get in your way.

    Ah, and docker and podman support is piece of cake if you like that stuff.

    Its even less bloated than a plain text-only fresh Debian install.

    You don't even have a logger or a cron daemon by default unless YOU install it.

    And there is so much great quality documentation that even navigated Linux people will learn new tricks installing Gentoo.

    Check out the Gentoo Handbook online.

    And I have more than once installed gentoo on another running Linux, then rebooted remotely to a fresh Gentoo. Do it with any other distro, I dare you!

  • Get a firestick. After trying literally 5 different unbranded TV boxes I gave up. Those are all shit.

    Get a Shield, but out of budget, or get a fire stick. They just work, are powerful enough and support enough codecs.

    They are amazon so hey, ads and shit included, but way the best hardware for the price (yes they will hard code DNS and ignore your pihole)

  • Gentoo always and for everything!

  • EU don't, but you need to make sure about the country in which you operated the crane as each EU country has its own laws and EU directives are not laws.

    I doubt you can be held responsible in such a case unless you are a civil engineer enabled to publish such designs and you did so by stating that those designs are in fact good to go.

    If I build my own crane and die or, worse, kill somebody operating it I am the only one responsible even if my uncle told me how to do so.

  • Nephele looks great. After some fiddling i couldn't make it work with sub-paths (/path/path) so i will keep using Apache as WebDAV server, which fits my bill so far. Unfortunately Joplin notes are NOT plain text (not even .md) as far as i can see, so that is not an option.

  • Are you serious? Come on.

    Get another drive and that's it.

    You cannot afford it? I can spare one for you, pm me.

    You want a different solution? There is none.

  • This looks... Overwhelming... O my... I want back to having only ONE alternative please!!!!

  • While Docker is a great tool with lots of reasons to use it, why should it MUST be the only solution? Installing on bare-metal gives me more control of what and how i install and i fond it more fun than typing "docker compose up". There are already tons of package managers (including npm, pip etc) that another one, one on which you have even less control (let's talk about all these images created so that everything runs as root?), is not really needed for me at least.

    I want the possibility to go bare-metal, and i will go bare-metal every time i have the possibility. Yes Docker might seems more convenient, but do i need a reason NOT to use Docker, really? Are we at this point? This is "self-hosting" which means doing things the way we prefer, not following the herd or going with packaged solutions. And i have more fun with bare-metal than Docker. Is this enough?

    Why are you so much against giving the optional opportunity to go bare-metal then, can you elaborate?

  • Mmm, not really? This is what i get by opening a "d8c18c2732b5476c932be62a292750f8.md" file from my Joplin storage folder:

    id: d8c18c2732b5476c932be62a292750f8 parent_id: 661a69f5c0df4c7fb1a2bf0657f0e198 item_type: 1 item_id: e66b22624674439582bfd11582e0e1db item_updated_time: 1705987325033 title_diff: "[]" body_diff: "[{diffs:[[0,/Spaces\n],[1,\nNotesnook.com\n]],start1:119,start2:119,length1:8,length2:23}]" metadata_diff: {"new":{},"deleted":[]} encryption_cipher_text: encryption_applied: 0 updated_time: 2024-01-23T05:22:05.194Z created_time: 2024-01-23T05:22:05.194Z type_: 13

    not really human readable to me (yes, readable, but...)

  • This combo looks promising!

  • Nephele looks promising! But how to view Joplin notes from browser? They don't seems readable directly from folders but somehow messed up

  • Need to check this out. Seems interesting ...

  • Good observation... Let's say NextCloud is a heavyweight and after many years its time to explore alternatives?

  • Not self hosted. Requires email and the use of their servers to sync.