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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you're running it via docker compose it's trivial to upgrade, and there are no breaking changes. Pull, down, up, you're done.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

Frigate is pretty good, too. I've only been running it for a few months but I'm very happy with it.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

Though, technically that leaves you more at risk of ransomeware or something that overwrites your data.

I rsync as well, but use snapshotting on the remote drives. So, a bad rsync would suck but shouldn't really result in data loss. Ransomware on my local+remote server would of course be very bad...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 3 months ago

I do something similar


I have a raspberry pi and a HD, with daily rsync and snapshots (monthly retained indefinitely, weekly retained for a month, daily retained for a week). It's at family's house, connected to my home via WireGuard via a VPS. Tailscale (or anything really) would also work here.

It's a great setup! Just have some watchdog reboot if it can't talk to home (a simple cronjob with ping -c1 home.lan || reboot or similar).

Even our "slow" 35Mbps upload speed is way more than enough for incremental rsyncs of my Immich library. The initial sync was done in person, though.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I got one from goHardDrive on eBay (link). It was cheap enough, looks flawless, and knock on wood has been working fine.

Googling around, the brand gets...mixed reviews. My use case is such that of this drive fails it's not a big deal.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've honestly never understood people who feel the need to "replace" Spotify. ... Spotify has never made sense for my use-case.

I don't know how to say this, but...you have extremely uncommon use-cases:

...during those times, my phone is either fully turned off (so I'll use an MP3 player), or it's in Airplane Mode.

Many people listen to music on stereos and don't necessarily want a device plugged in, so

I just download the music I like to my device and listen to it via VLC.

either doesn't work or is substantially less convenient than e.g. casting from a phone.

Not hating on your setup at all, but it's very niche, in my experience.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 4 months ago

I think parent is referring to Merkle trees.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

scolding hot metal

I like the mental imagery


it's not scalding hot, no, the metal is actively chastising you.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 38 points 4 months ago

...the San Francisco gold rush in 1949.

Classic CS major, making an off-by-one(hundred years) error ;)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago

Your numbers seem reasonable


more intuitive for me to work in terms of pressure. Atmosphere is (roughly) 1e3 Torr, good UHV can be around 1e-10, so that's 13 orders of magnitude, which is (roughly) the same difference that you calculated.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

Aluminum foil is very common in physics labs. And a main use for it is "baking"! To get ultra high vacuum (UHV)* you generally need to "bake out" your chamber while you pump down. Foil is used same as with baking food


keep the heat in and evenly distributed on the chamber.

Sadly, it's usually not food grade aluminum foil, as that can contain oils, and oils and vacuum are generally a big no-no.

*Just how good is UHV? Roughly: I live in San Francisco, which is ~7 miles by ~7 miles (~11km). Imagine you raise that by another 7 miles to make a cube. Now, evacuate every last molecule of gas out of it. Now take a family sedan's trunk, fill it with 1 atmosphere of gas, and release that into the 7 mile cube. That's roughly UHV pressure.

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