SayCyberOnceMore

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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Updated my NAS recently and Immich’s database stopped working due to some PostgreSQL update that needs something changed manually, so I need to get my head around that.

    Also trying to get a tablet to run as a 2nd satellite for HomeAssistant voice commands and no matter what I do, only the 1st one responds to wakeword… but I tend to give up after everyone’s gone to bed as I’m literally in a room on my own talking to myself…


  • Using PfBlockerNG?

    It’s a great piece of software, but I had a hell of a time blocking some countries for torrents.

    A single IP in China was repeatedly downloading an Ubunto ISO, I think due to the various methods of peers finding each other, so in the end I had to create an additional alias to block outgoing traffic even though only I was only allowing specific other countries in.




  • Look, there’s 2 things here:

    • NAS - meaning storage

    and

    • NAS - meaning a virtualisation / container server that’s doing lots of fairly random disk access

    Which are you wanting?

    For the first, just consider capacity (you’ll fill it) and noise (spinning away all night)

    For the 2nd, really really consider SSDs as they’re silent and fast.

    RAID1 is just a convenience factor, so whatever you do, don’t get too caught up in the drive mechanics as you’ll have a full backup (right?) and can restore your data at a moment’s notice.

    Honestly, honestly, just go for something large & quiet and you’ll be fine.

    And yes, SSD for the OS







  • Yep, seen a similar thing with servers…

    A few years ago I built up a system with ~ 20 servers. Powered them all up and did all the RAID initialisation (RAID5 across 6-8 disks per server IIRC)

    One server basically needed all it’s disks replacing and some of the others needed a disk or 2 replaced - within a month!

    Since replacing those disks and building all those arrays I’m happy to build a NAS / server, let it bed-in for a while and if nothing fails I’ll just keep powering up & down my NAS as needed and I’ll run the drives until they die…







  • I think 90% of the comments here are “write your own notes“ - which is possibly over simplistic.

    Everyone’s different but IMHO:

    The brain is better for imagination than long term storage. So if you’re stuck trying to remember some obscure command(s), it’s just better to use something else to store that on.

    But when the brain understands the core concepts well enough, the details come together as habits (where repetition comes in).

    So, if you’re unable to recall something, take some time to think / remind yourself about the underlying concepts and why that’s the command - next time it’ll be easier, eventually it’ll be effortless.

    I had to learn some strange concepts for work during a deep technical troubleshooting session on a client’s system and the commands were like just facemashing the keyboard… I’ve no idea what those commands are now (written down), but I can recall what / why I was doing them and that was the key… for me.

    (Using computers since '80s)