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@ CatLikeLemming @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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she/they

Bit of a mess, kinda depressed, and going through a gender identity crisis :3

(Ongoing issues, brain pls fix)

  • Whats the worst game mechanic?

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  • "Ah a cutscene, time to drink some wa FUCK" It's gotten to the point where in games which pull this stuff I wait until the cutscene is over, then pause, then drink. And in games which don't, I'm usually a bit anxious anyways, just in case they suddenly start pulling out the QTEs.

  • Why is it so hard to get friends to leave Discord, WhatsApp, Instagram, and others? Anyone else feel this?

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  • I'm still on Discord because everyone else is there. I've moved my direct social connections, so most of the things I'd use Discord dms for on a daily basis, over to dedicated direct messaging services, but communities are so much harder to move over. You can't shuffle between a hundred and a thousand people over to another platform unless somehow most of the groups they're in move over at once.

    And to what? Matrix communities are not as convenient, Revolt's voice chats are not as good and screen sharing wasn't a thing at all last I checked and it doesn't have a mobile client, and TeamSpeak is primarily voice-based.

  • Building my first NAS: Assistance on part selection please

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  • may require command line and config files to do it

    I'm comfortable enough with those, that shouldn't be an issue then. Thanks for the info!

  • Building my first NAS: Assistance on part selection please

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  • Oh I didn't even consider the fact that I might need to pass through the iGPU. Thanks for pointing that out, will double check. Although it'd be very odd if TrueNAS struggled to do that, considering how many people use it and how many of those have some kind of self-hosted streaming service. But of course, always best to check anyways!

  • Building my first NAS: Assistance on part selection please

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  • Very helpful, thank you! The CPU choice has had to be remade anyways as I have mentioned in other places in this thread.

    Looking at the 5750GE it seems to be OEM-only, so I'm not sure where to reputably get my hands on that.

    The 5700G looks very intriguing, it's only barely more expensive compared to the last price of the 4650G I saw. If I find nothing else, I'll probably go with that one then.

    I am still concerned about wattage though, I struggled to find any regular CPUs with a notably lower TDP than 65W - although I'd honestly be most intrigued by what it draws at idle-ish, because if it's like a <5W difference there I wouldn't bother... but of course idle changes depending on the system so not like that can be properly listed anywhere.

    Do you potentially also have any Intel suggestions? Other people here mentioned an AMD iGPU might cause problems with Jellyfin.

  • Building my first NAS: Assistance on part selection please

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  • I run EXOS drives in the under-stair cupboard. They’re noisy but they’re not that bad.

    I think anything described as "noisy" would be too much, especially considering the savings are decent but not huge.

    I’ve not heard of AMD CPUs handling this under Linux at least.

    I'll double check that then, just to be sure. Although I have noticed that, between me writing it down and now, the CPU is no longer available where I live, so I have to find a replacement either way.

  • Building my first NAS: Assistance on part selection please

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  • You’re not using a CPU that most distributions support for hardware transcoding. You either need to use an Intel CPU with QuickSync or stick a discrete nvidia card in the box.

    I see, I chose that one based on a recommendation from I believe the channel was called "Wolfgang's Channel". They make a lot of home lab content and showed the iGPU working fine for Plex, so I assumed it wasn't an issue.

    Are you intent on building your own box?

    Yeah pretty much, I think it sounds fun

    Regarding disks Seagate EXOS are often cheaper than IronWolfs and have higher MTBF than even the Pro. Don’t ask me why they’re lower cost, for more bang.

    As I mentioned in my post, apparently they're way louder since they're made for datacenters where noise is crazy anyways, and since I am planning to have the NAS in my hallway I'd like to avoid the datacenter vibe, even if a handful of drives won't cause quite that level of cacophony

  • Building my first NAS: Assistance on part selection please

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  • I sadly can not. The old PC I'm scavenging from is incomplete and my current PC has a DDR5 motherboard. So the earliest point I can check them is once I've built the NAS since then I'd have a functioning PC here with DDR4 support.

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  • Got it, thank you

  • Building my first NAS: Assistance on part selection please

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  • Is noise the most important prio? Would you spend money for this goal?

    Not the most important, but it is an important factor. If I am not losing much otherwise, I'd like to keep it not louder than say, an idling fridge. I would spend some more for quieter drives and fans, since those are the biggest noise concerns.

    How about power usage?

    Absolutely important, power prices here are some of the highest globally.

    How about price limitations?

    I'd very much like to stay below 2000€, preferably below 1750€. Currently it's coming out at around 1600€.

    When looking at harddisks, there is that performance issue called "CMR or SMR" (google it). Your ST8000NT001 seem fine performance-wise as the use CMR.

    Yup, took that into account, but nonetheless thanks for mentioning it!

    If you need really quiet ones, then maybe you want "desktop" harddisks. But many of them use SMR which limits their performance.

    Doesn't need to be super quiet, just not disruptive, I'm planning on having the NAS in the hallway.

    Most guides recommend Raidz2 currently. Do you use backups?

    Raidz2 means there are two entire "unused" drives which would be quite painful for my budget. I am planning on renting around 1TB of rsync storage and throwing things like Immich's data on there. This is fine to me since I'd prefer one backup off-site anyways. Any of my jellyfin stuff can always be redownloaded as long as I keep a list of what I got somewhere else. Oh also I'm planning on getting all four drives at different stores and/or different times (at least a week or two in between) to reduce the chance of them failing all at once.

    When buying SSDs, check for the "TBW" spec.

    Noted

  • Building my first NAS: Assistance on part selection please

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  • Prices fluctuate but last I checked it was around 1600€. Also, after posting this thread I re-checked the CPU and noticed that isn't even available in my region anymore apparently, so I'll have to find a suitable replacement there anyways.

  • Building my first NAS: Assistance on part selection please

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  • A friend of mine had an unRAID NAS and moved that over to TrueNAS later after being bothered by the licensing costs, that's why I was looking into the latter more. I do know how to RTFM, so I think I should be fine on that? But maybe there's gonna be a huge negative surprise, I suppose I don't know that yet

  • Building my first NAS: Assistance on part selection please

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  • How come? I've seen those recommended quite often.

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  • Yeah, I thought about the RAM, but since I already have two 8GB sticks I decided not to bother. Couldn't even buy two more since I have no idea what those are exactly, there are no stickers on them, so I'd have to buy 32GB entirely which is like 80-120€.

    And as you said, that can always be done later if I run into trouble :)

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  • Ah, sorry, I should've specified this further. Whether this can run what I need it to isn't the primary concern, I believe it can do so, I primarily attached my decision making basis just in case it changes anything.

    I'm more concerned about things like picking the correct drives, or if limiting my motherboard selection through an ITX case was a bad idea, or if my choice of not going with ECC was a poor one, those kinds of things.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Building my first NAS: Assistance on part selection please

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  • Over the last one or two years I feel like Rust haters have gotten even louder than the Rust evangelists. For every person who declares "Rewrite it in Rust!" I see two or three people saying how they hate Rust or how pointless it is and so on.

  • Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop!

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  • There's good and bad. Every few months the EU tries to ban encryption without backdoors again for instance, because "oh dear, think of the children!".

  • Some TODO app called Emacs?

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  • My problem with that is mobile. If I want tasks, I'll use a dedicated primarily mobile app, (e.g. Tasks.org) because if I'm checking a grocery list or tweaking my daily todo list while out of the house, I'm not gonna pull out my laptop lol

    Of course it seems reasonable for more long-term plans which you don't need to change day-to-day, but at that point I'd just end up with two to do lists/apps which is also a bother.

  • why are website language switchers in the current language?

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  • Even worse when a version is actually different. I had to check the US prices in a store once, it decided "nah mate, your IP's not American, clearly you're a bloody idiot, here's your native version" and even when I manually changed the url to US English, as they did languages based on part of the path, it still decided clearly I must not know what I want. I couldn't even try to infer the price, as the product didn't exist on my version of the site.

    And aside from that and language pet peeves, what if you're on Holiday? Or live in an area that speaks a lot of languages close together?

    As Cousin Mose said, the language is in the header, the fact that some web devs decide the IP address is clearly a better way to figure out what language you want is insane

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup?

  • System76 Releases COSMIC Alpha 7 Desktop - Last Step Before Beta

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  • For me it's pretty likely to replace it, at least on my laptop. Don't get me wrong, I love Plasma, but per-screen workspaces and native window tiling are two features I never knew how much I needed before I tried out Hyprland some months back, especially on a single screen. While I'll definitely miss the desktop panels and extensive settings menu, I'll give those up for the other features without much of a second thought.

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Is the Proton (Mail, VPN, Password Manager) ecosystem any good?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    NAS, Home Servers, and where do I even start?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Alacritty, Konsole, or something else? Which terminal emulator do you recommend?

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    HP Printer(ule)

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Home server tips and security for beginners?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    What's your favourite RSS reader for Linux?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Fedora, Arch, or EndeavourOS?

  • Transfem @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Epilator recommendations?

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    Born to Rule

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Arch or NixOS?

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    Horseplay Rule

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    Men rule

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    Freudian Rule

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Arch on semi-critical pc? (Also EndeavourOS vs raw Arch?)

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    Downrule a car

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    HP Printrule

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    Girls Pretty Rule

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    Stupid Rule