If I’ve understood you correctly, I think you’d need to link 0VDC / GND between both the system PSU and the HDD PSU, otherwise you’ll get variable reference voltages for the data lines

Happy for someone else to shoot this idea down in flames, but I think the data is using absolute, not differential voltages

I went with Arch Linux on ARM for a minimal approach - did you try that?

Genuninely interested in your experience of Alpine Linux as I’d not considered it on a Pi (only VMs so far…)

If you’re just looking for something to chew up CPU cycles and don’t know what to host, consider something like BOINC where you’re “self-hosting” (extremely loose term) scientific research, like cancer, new drugs, etc.

If they’re sharing it with me, then sure, I’ll add it to the folder for that party, holiday, event

Immich would scan it and faces are taken care of and if there’s metadata in there, great, if not, dunno if I could be bothered to edit it… maybe date stamp if that was wildly off.

I commented elsewhere here, but E2E encryption is just between the server and the end user (ie a VPN)

You’re thinking about encryption at rest, on the storage.

Immich would have to setup a whole new design to be able to store all the metadata on a per-user basis… but… you could have multiple Immich instances if you were to host it for your friends, but I think we’re drifting into “why bother” now…

Well… E2E is still feasible, that’s your VPN for example.

Encryption at rest is where de-dupe, search, etc, can break.

The scalability problem with FOSS is monetary and motivation.

The successful products need longterm financial security in order to plan and support their peoduct(s) - so, do we start seeing more subscriptions as corp. sponsorship fades away?

And, just like XKCD 2347, FOSS needs to step up and support the components they rely on

That’s going to need some more maturity from the developers too: it’s a great feeling doing something new and interesting, but - like having a pet - you can’t just abandon something when you’re bored of it, or too busy, without rehoming your project(s)…

That’s where I see the industry needs to improve before they’re really ready for the big time.

Why wouldn’t this apply?

One day in the future the later version of sudo would become available…?

As far as mitigation is concerned, the only thing you need to do is to confirm that your system’s sudo version is at least version 1.9.17p1 or later, which can be done with the command sudo -V. If your version is older than 1.9.17p1, update immediately.

I guess this is mainly targeted at Universities and organisations that mirror repos?

They’re the kinda place (I presume) that would be able to support this…

Is that the same i as the squareroot of -1?

If you’re able to, use GeoIP ranges to only allow access from the countries you want.

That immediately limits a lot of everything

Then - again if you’re able to - use a block list that covers known scrapers in case they’re in your country.

I use pfBlockerNG on my pfSense firewall for exactly this.

I think they meant they’re not a fan of Windows and having to update those programs individually…

Not brush, but flexible gromit strips will do the edge protection bit.

Then, dunno, postbox / door draught excluder brushes?

Ah, Ok, yeah Arch on ARM is struggling at the moment

I have / had some Ras Pis on it, but they wrapped up … Pi0? a while back, so had to look at Raspbian (or whatever it’s called now)… I’d not considered Gentoo for them… hmmm

Maybe I’ll check that out

Thanks

Interested in why you went back to Gentoo after Arch.

I use Arch (btw) and tried Gentoo back in the day, but it’s always in the back of my mind that compiling source could be “better”…?

I believe some manufacturers allow end users to claim the license cost back.

Do check the manufacturer’s T’s & C’s - you might need Windows if returning for hardware issues.

I take a full disk image of a new computer before powering it up, so that I can restore it exactly as it was when purchased.

Take a backup and go for it.

Personally, I ditched OMV for standard Arch Linux and just added the packages I wanted…

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