So the only difference is one is a phone, and the other a gaming device? Because Nintendo js a gatekeeper in exactly the same way Apple is. Nintendo controls the entire operating system and which apps you’re allowed to install on the Switch. You’re going to have expand on how Apple has economic power over other companies and people for me.
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MorphiusFaydal@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Repurposing an old Alienware r8English2·2 months agoIf you’ve got two 3.5" bays, you could do a RAID 1 (or a mirror in ZFS terms) with them both. This works very nicely with a small SSD for booting. My TrueNAS server has a 120 GB SSD in the M.2 slot that TrueNAS is installed on, then I have an array of spinning disks that forms the main storage array.
If you are planning any sort of play environment that you might want to keep (like a Pixelfed instance) I’d strongly recommend RAID just for availability in the event of a drive failure. But more than that, backups. They are of number one importance. Before you turn up anything of any importance, figure out a backup strategy.
MorphiusFaydal@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Repurposing an old Alienware r8English9·2 months ago- What’s a good NAS OS to install?
TrueNAS Scale is the go to. Unraid is another popular option.
- Any fun things I can do besides plex transcoding with a 1080 GPU?
Local LLM. Look up Ollama.
- Would it make sense to run a Pixelfed/Mastodon server off this guy?
You could. That could potentially use a lot of space or be very annoying you having to manage and moderate the instances.
- Can I run a RAID on it without buying a separate HDD bay?
What do you mean? Are you talking about a hardware RAID card, or can you physically stuff more than one disk drive into the chassis? For the first, it’ll depend on whether it has any open PCI Express slots. For the second, what do you see when you open it up? Are there 3.5" or 5.25" bays open?
Other than a Plex port forward, I have zero experience putting services out on the public web (but would like to learn!).
Wanting to learn is an admirable goal. I’ve not done it myself, but the Linux Upskill Challenge might be a good place to start. Either that, or figure out something you might want to host yourself, then come back and ask for input when you run into trouble or have a question.
MorphiusFaydal@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Advice / sanity check for torrenting & media serverEnglish2·3 months agoI just switched from using Medusa and CouchPotato to Sonarr and Radarr. During the library import process, you can specify if the application should “monitor” the media which is what it means to download new content or try and replace with higher qualities. You can import entire libraries as “Unmonitored” so it will show it, but effectively ignore it unless you go back and change it. You can also just not import your library, and start “clean” if you wanted, and I believe it will just ignore the files for anything you don’t add.
MorphiusFaydal@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speedsEnglish3·3 months agoI just checked on eBay, and there are multiple listings for single port 100 GbE Mellanox (now nVidia) Connect-X 4 cards in the $60-100 range.
Pixel with GrapheneOS.
MorphiusFaydal@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Apple chips can be hacked to leak secrets from Gmail, iCloud, and moreEnglish343·4 months agoThen you probably don’t know about Spectre and Meltdown from a few years ago. Same family of problem on x86-64 (so Intel and AMD chips).
MorphiusFaydal@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•YouTube shorts disproportionately promotes alt-right content according to this experimentEnglish7·4 months agoThe presenter chats with Milo.
MorphiusFaydal@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Email with own domain service but local?English1·4 months agoIf you mainly want to “hide” your IP, you can’t. Look at the headers of any message. It’ll still show the original source IP, which will be yours.
For the rest of the time I’d recommend getting a spam filtering service. Mimecast, ProofPoint, Barracuda, etc.
Messages sent to you go to the filter, which then forwards the message over to your mail server. Outbound you configure your server to use the filter as a smart host. These filters will also buffer messages if your mail server is offline. So if the server is down, the filter holds on to messages and retries delivery later when your server is back up (within reason).
MorphiusFaydal@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Proxmox Datacenter Manager - First Alpha ReleaseEnglish9·5 months agoYou must have had a real sweetheart deal on VMware then. Proxmox is cheaper than VMware even under the old pricing. You also don’t have to buy the “Standard” subscription. There are cheaper ones.
MorphiusFaydal@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Looking for 1 or multiple HBAs to use with a chassis.English1·5 months agoI’m not aware of any that would run all of it at the same time. Most of this equipment is built for use with a server CPU and motherboard, which obviously has more PCI-E lanes. The Zen 5 consumer CPUs only have 28 PCI-E lanes, so unless you buy a motherboard that breaks out more through the use of a PCI-E switch, that’s all you’ll get.
MorphiusFaydal@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Open source router firmware project OpenWrt ships its own entirely repairable hardwareEnglish6·5 months agoWAN would be the Internet uplink port. A 2.5G WAN port is a 2.5 gigabit Ethernet port. 2.5 gigabit and o a lesser extent 5 gigabit Ethernet are a standard that’s becoming rapidly available on a lot of hardware. OP is stating that for a device shipping near the end of 2024, a new router that is shipping with only 1 GbE instead of 2.5 GbE is a problem.
MorphiusFaydal@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Open source router firmware project OpenWrt ships its own entirely repairable hardwareEnglish10·5 months agoNot really. WAN has always been WAN. Wireless has always been WLAN.
MorphiusFaydal@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Looking for 1 or multiple HBAs to use with a chassis.English2·6 months agoThat’s right. So on the top backplane, you’ll connect the Oculink ports to the Oculink outfitted HBA. One port per drive.
For the bottom 8 drives, it looks like you’ll have one miniSAS HD connector per four drives, plus another for the rear bays. I initially thought they were plain SATA and would go to the motherboard. But it looks like you’ll need a third connector - so you’ll want a 16 port HBA (Supermicro AOC-S3216L-L16iT).
Reading through all the documentation I can, it looks like you’ll have the option to run all the bays as NVME or SAS disks. The controllers and layouts I’ve listed are for running four bays as NVME, and the other 10 as SAS.
MorphiusFaydal@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Looking for 1 or multiple HBAs to use with a chassis.English2·6 months agoIf I understand the ports you have - Supermicro AOC-SLG3-4E4T for the U.2 bays and a Supermicro AOC-S3008L-L8e for the SAS bays. You could replace the SAS card with a Dell HBA 330 as well. The Dell PERC cards that support NVME storage don’t appear to have the Oculink ports your backplane has.
MorphiusFaydal@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•FFmpeg devs boast of up to 94x performance boost after implementing handwritten AVX-512 assembly codeEnglish221·6 months ago7000 series run AVX512 as two 256 bit data paths, while the 9000 series has a native 512 bit data path for AVX512.
MorphiusFaydal@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•How Disney and Warner Bros. Are Causing Internet Piracy to Boom | Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever.English0·1 year agoStandard Dynamic Range. It’s a term adopted to differentiate non-HDR video from HDR video.
It’s most useful for something like /home so you have a full backup of your home directories without having to worry if some app has dumped its settings on a folder you don’t have marked for backup. But also backing up / is useful because it gives you an easy recovery in the event of say disk failure. Just restore the entire system from a backup.