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  • Do you turn your servers off when you leave home? What is your line of thinking on this?

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  • You didn't mention it directly, but if you want to access any of your hosted services remotely, you will almost certainly want some kind of VPN solution. I host a few things over HTTPS,, but there's no way I'm exposing anything critical directly to the internet.

  • Do you turn your servers off when you leave home? What is your line of thinking on this?

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  • I suppose it depends on your use case, but I would disagree with points 1 and 2. Network connectivity has an effect on your entire network and is absolutely crucial. Pfsense/OPNSense, DNS, etc should always be on server-class hardware. I run these as VM, but I would argue that best practice is to have them on their own bare-metal server-class hardware. File storage is also incredibly important, and even with backups, I don't want my NAS going down. It also runs on server class-hardware.

    The two items you mentioned are the two items I would be least comfortable running on consumer-grade hardware.

  • Do you turn your servers off when you leave home? What is your line of thinking on this?

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  • My server rack gets shut off in only two cases: I lose power and am too slow in firing up the generator before the UPS shuts the servers down, or I need to do major maintenance (like replacing a PCIe card). So, virtually never for the most part.

    Too many important sevices need to stay running, even when I'm not at home.

  • Netflix bad... Shocker, I know

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  • I definitely get that. The big thing for me is music, and I routinely buy physical and digital copies of albums to add to my collection. I don't mind sending some money to help my favorite artists keep producing content that I enjoy. With video, though, it's just so much harder. I'd be happy to pay $50 or more per month for what Netflix used to be, or even buy downloadable copies of a TV series that I like. That's just not possible these days. I'd be subscribing to Netflix, Discovery, Paramount, Apple TV, probably a few more. It's ridiculous. Forget buying and downloading TV shows; there's no option for that at all. I'd rather just not watch TV or find an "alternate" means of getting the media I want.

  • LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs

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  • I completely understand what you're saying; in general, I tend to agree that if a firmware update is available, it's best to install it. I keep the firmware up to date on all my networking equipment, and the first thing I do when I set up a new PC is install Windows updates (or apt-get update in Linux).

    I have two TVs. One in the living room, and one in the bedroom. After the brief time I had my bedroom TV connected to my network, it immediately started serving me advertisements. I hate ads with a passion. When it comes to network security, privacy probably comes second to blocking ads in terms of priority. When it came time to replace my living room TV, I first tried to repair it, but after spending too much on a replacement mainboard that didn't do shit, I just bought a new TV. There was no way in hell I was letting it connect to the internet and download advertisements.

    I have an extensive Zigbee network for home automation, 10GB fiber links between my servers and my home office, etc. My home is very much "connected." TVs are just one of those things that I will never, ever, under any circumstances, allow to connect to anything other than a video cable. If I'm paying $1000 or more for a device, I'll be damned if it's going to show me advertisements.

  • LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs

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  • I use my TV as basically just a dumb display panel. If it can display 4k/60, then there is no bug that needs to be fixed. I don't even use built-in audio.

    I connected my other TV to my network once when my Nvidia Shield wasn't working. That TV is still showing advertisements in the main menu for shows that were released 3 years ago.

  • LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs

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  • I'm in this same situation and at least for me, no, not even once for a firmware update.

    If the TV is displaying the image that's coming from whatever input source I'm using, then the firmware is already just fine.

  • Netflix bad... Shocker, I know

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  • I canceled Netflix several years ago after having used it as my primary source of media almost since they first started their streaming service.

    The problem I had is that the quality of their content decreased so dramatically that even though it worked fine from a technical perspective, there was nothing I wanted to watch. They used to have extensive back-catelogues of shows from all sorts of different national cable networks, tons of interesting foreign shows, documentaries, obscure indie films, etc.

    Slowly but surely this all disappeared. Networks stopped licensing content to Netflix. As soon as they realized that streaming was the way of the future, they wanted to capitalize on it with their own streaming services. In a way, Netflix was a victim of their own success.

    Now they're essentially just a TV network of their own and not the aggregator of media that they used it me. The few decent originals that they have were just not justification enough for me to pay for a service I might use a few times a year.

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  • I have absolutely zero interest in participating in any kind of social media that isn't an "anonymous forum." I have no interest in following particular individuals; I'm really only interested in having discussions with random internet users that share common interests. I used PhpBB instances, IRC, and before that BBS systems, and I'm really just looking for the same kind of experience.

    So I will never use Mastodon; I think it's a fantastic alternative to Xitter, but the format just doesn't interest me in the slightest.

  • People who tried La Croix, what is your opinion on it?

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  • I love it, and for anyone else who does, I have a suggestion.

    Get a SodaStream (or whatever your carbonator-of-choice is) and a cheap adapter to run it from a standard CO2 tank. Not only do you save money on CO2 refills, but you save money on buying cans of seltzer, too. The concentrated flavor additives are only a few dollars at the grocery store.

    I think my SodaStream was something like $100. The adapter and hoses were $50-ish. The flavor syrup costs around $5 for enough to make gallons. Every few months or more, I might pay $50 or so to refill a 20lb CO2 tank. It's already paid for itself, and it's incredibly convenient.

  • how much power does your system need?

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  • Holy shit. I'm paying less than 10c per kwh even in the "high usage" tier.

  • how much power does your system need?

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  • I'm right around the same level, and it actually keeps my server room / workshop at comfortable temperature during the winter. I also have my gaming PC mounted in my server rack; when that's running, there are times where my AC will still kick in even when it's 40 degrees outside.

  • how much power does your system need?

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  • For two servers (one with a lot of spinning rust), two switches, and a few other miscellaneous network appliances. My server rack averages around 600-650W. During periods of high demand (nightly backups, for instance), that can peak at around 750W.

  • Is clothes shopping IRL better than shopping online?

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  • I generally buy almost everything online, but clothes are one exception to that. I generally have 1 or 2 brands of clothes I normally purchase, but even within those two brands, size can vary quite a bit, especially after they've been washed a few times.

    I can buy two different size 36 pants from my favorite brand, and after washing, one fits comfortably, and the other only fits if I leave them unbuttoned. Being able to test them in-person at least gives me a general idea of if they're still going to fit after they go through the dryer.

  • Seagate launches 30/32TB capacity Exos M mechanical HDD (30/32TB capacity)

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  • You got an incredible deal on your tape drive. For LTO8 drives, I'm seeing "for parts only" drives sold for around $500. I'd be willing to throw away $100 or $200 on the possibility that I could repair a drive; $500 is a bit too much. It looks like LTO6 is more around what my budget would be.; it would require a much larger number of tapes, but not excessively so.

    I remember when BD-R was a reasonable solution for backup. There's no way that's true now. It really seems like hard drive capacity has far outpaced removable media. If most people are streaming everything, those of us who actually want to save their data locally are really the minority these days. There's just not as much of a compelling reason for companies to develop cheap high-capacity removable discs.

    I'm sure I'll invest in a tape backup solution eventually, but for now, at least I have ZFS with paranoid RAIDZ.

  • Seagate launches 30/32TB capacity Exos M mechanical HDD (30/32TB capacity)

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  • What kind of tape drive are you using? My array isn't as large as yours (120tb physical), but it's big enough that my only real options for backup are tape or a whole secondary array for just backup.

    Based on what I've seen, my options are a prohibitively large number tapes with an older LTO standard or prohibitively expensive tapes with a newer LTO standard.

    My current backup strategy consists of automated backups to Backblaze B2 for the really important stuff like personal documents or projects and hoping my ZFS array doesn't fail for everything else.

  • Seagate launches 30/32TB capacity Exos M mechanical HDD (30/32TB capacity)

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  • I can't wait for datacenters to decommission these so I can actually afford an array of them on the second-hand market.

  • 65% of office workers bypass cybersecurity to boost productivity

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  • I understand the need for security in a corporate setting. When my brand new company laptop has so much nannyware that it's slower out of the box than my 20-year-old netbook that I dug out of a box in the attic, something is very wrong, though.

    I firmly believe that IT departments come up with new ideas for "hardening" their default OS installation and implement them in a vacuum. You end up with a barely-usable machine because every single IT person with a "good idea" has infected it with their software package of choice, and nobody is considering the cumulative effect.

  • 70% of open-source components are poorly or no longer maintained

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  • This really highlights part of the beauty of open source code, though. You usually have plenty of options for large well-maintained projects. If an obscure, abandoned project fits your needs better, you're free to inspect the code, modify it as you see fit, and use it.

    On the other hand, when Windows 10 goes end-of-life, I have no option to fork it and use it as a custom project. I can switch to Windows 11 (zero chance of this happening), use an outdated version of Windows 10, or convert to Linux.