Andres Salomon
he/him. from the birdsite (@Andres4NY and before that @NEGreenways).
#Dad #NYC #Bikes #FreeTransit #SafeStreets #BanCars #Debian #FreeSoftware #ACAB #Vegetarian #WearAMask
My wife’s an #epidemiologist, so you’ll get some #COVID talk too.
Trans rights are human rights.
@paperd @chaospatterns Yeah, this is the one I’m currently using. I have my pictures automatically synced to my laptop, and (in the other direction) an audiobooks directory on my laptop automatically synced to my phone.
@synapse1278 I recently bought a used 8tb drive off ebay for $45. Manufacturing date on the drive was 2016, but Power_On_Hours was 4 (four!). I asked the seller if they reset SMART data; his response:
"We do not reset power on hours, as we could get in a ton of trouble listing used drives as new bulk etc after altering the power on hours. This one likely was used in/for testing an array etc. "
So I’m pretty pleased with that…
@wildbus8979 @Bahnd Yeah, XMPP checks all the boxes. That said, I don’t know how well encrypted group chats (MUC) work with various clients.
Also, while message contents are encrypted, metadata is not. Self-hosting ameliorates that, but if your “self-hosting” involves a VPS or whatever hosted by a giant corporation, then that’s something to be aware of.
@just_another_person @bluelion Eh, don’t discount inertia. A lot of debian development channels are still active on IRC.
@semperverus @possiblylinux127 No, this other person has a working ‘e’ key on their keyboard.
@avidamoeba @possiblylinux127 Does your ZFS not print on Tuesdays? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161/
@Atemu @beastlykings Every few decades seems optimistic. I have an archive of photos/videos from cameras and phones spanning from early 2000s to mid-2010s. There’s not a lot, maybe 6gb; a few thousand files. At some point around the end of that time period, I noticed corruption in some random photos.
Likewise, I have a (3tb) flac archive, which is about 15-20 years old. Nightly ‘flac -t’ checks are done on 1/60th of the archive, essentially a scrub. Bitrot has struck a dozen times so far.
@Atemu Well yes, this is experience of self-hosting for close to 25 years, with a mix of drives over those years. I have noticed much better quality drives in the past decade (helium hdds running cooler/longer, nvram, etc) with declining failure rates and less corruption.
But especially if you’re talking about longer time scales like that (“every few decades”), it’s difficult to account for technology changes.