Yep.

Absolutely the best advice.

I always recommend the same:

1. Get a secure proper cloud storage (Backblaze, Hetzner Object Storage/Storage box, Ionos,etc.) for daily/incremental backups and single file recovery. (As Tandberg is no longer an alternative this seems to be the only choice atm). Make sure you have encryption on and a proper rotation/deletion schedule.

2. Get an external harddrive for a full backup every few weeks/months, preferably store it offsite, even better if you get two and rotate them offsite.

3. Get a M-DISC Burner for the important files. Burn them onto BlueRay M Discs and store these at various offsite locations as well. Do so every few months. These have the advantage of being WORM (write once, read many).

Tapes are fucking expensive for current models and the old LTO drives one can get off Ebay,etc. tend to write faulty data and are almost always end of life. And as LTO is not backwards compatible beyond the generation below it’s very much a possibility that people will have issues reading their tapes in 5 or 10 years.

Just another thing: Get proper,WORM(write once read many) backups. Get a M-Disc capable blueray burner (around 100 bucks) and burn the real important stuff in Archive capable Bluerays (normal ones degrade within years,these don’t). You don’t want to find out your datasets suffered from bit rot(yes,that is a thing) 5 years later and have no option to restore because you fucked up backups 2 years ago. For the real important data(everything that can’t be redownloaded aka the personal stuff) it’s worth it.

Ideally do put some of those discs somewhere else,away from your house.

But for gods sake use proper backups. The tendency for immich to break things is the reason I nowadays recommend photoprism to people who start with selfhosting - it’s worse in a lot of ways but way more stable most of the times.

You don’t need many “guides”, especially not on blogs. They are risky - often written by people who don’t really know what they are doing fully and,more importantly, don’t update their guides. Then things can become really really ugly fast.

If you managed to run jellyfin on a miniPC on Debian you are already doing a good job and very likely already quite a bit.

My personal recommendation: Get another miniPC (no ARM,so no Raspi) and put Debian on it. Then use the Proxmox Community scripts to expand your reach, BUT use them as an “understanding how shit works” base - they have their limitations and their quality has sadly dropped since tteck is no longer with us. (RIP :(

That should give you a pretty good insight into virtualisation, KVM, basic networking - and a plattform to play that you easily can revert to an earlier state if you fuck up.

Remember backups, remember documentation (a wiki,maybe netbox) and monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana or Zabbix are some of the multiple options).

If you want to, you can also look into bash scripts to automate a few things. I know people here hate LLMs but actually ChatGPT and perplexity are good for that. Let them write a bash script for some easy tasks (e.g. update the VM, download a configuration file, create two admin users, make them sudo, install zabbix agent, install this and that) and then let them explain step by step to you. They aren’t too bad at it and actually help you learn basic scripting fairly well. (And then learn it properly with a e-course or something.)

As long as you don’t operate any public facing services and proper backups the actual risk involved is fairly small

Nah, i must disagree here. The posters are right about being a hobby for some people. In two very bad ways

There are (usually the dads) who only pick it up once in a while the same way they go mountainbiking,etc. Then they usually try to “make up” what they didn’t do the rest of the days and make it “extra fun”. (As usual the Simpsons did a good take on it in their fun dad episode) But they don’t give a rats ass the rest of the time. They don’t go to the doctor with the kid,they don’t know their school schedules,etc. They pick their hobby up maybe twice a month. I hate these people - because they are so numerous. When I am out with my kiddos I get comments “oh,do you babysit for your wife?” “Oh, it’s nice you take that burden off your wife once in a while.” Like what? Are you fucking crazy? My wife is the actual main income earner and this is not the 50ies.

The other kind is as bad,imho. The overinvolved ones. The ones that basically want to do everything so right that it becomes their hobby (or obsession). The “oh no, my kid can’t eat sugar that is not made from XY” “I will not raise my child, i will love-raise them”, etc. Note that while these have a crosssection with helicopter parents they are a distinct group themselves,as some prefer an intentional other style of parenting (all nature and free roaming,etc.). But they will focus on it - countless blogs, books from unqualified authors and instagram posts will be read, countless discussions, for them it becomes their hobby…or more.

So…there are some people who have parenting as a hobby. And that doesn’t mean the ones who have no time for hobbies anymore - as parenting is fucking hard sometimes.

Yeah. Would be my recommendation, too. For the size of the lab a Zimba seems a good choice if something new is what OP wants, otherwise a MiniPC.

I know what you mean, but just saying that Proxmox absolutely has an Api that can do a few (not all) of these things - and some are potentially use cases for the data centre manager. But yeah, I know what you mean.

Smart/App:

1. Ignore the App and “buhuuu smarrrtt bad”!warning here and rather look at the brand more exactly and do your own due diligence. Is a cloud app bad? Yes,maybe. (But tbh, the amount of information given out is somewhat negligible here) BSH (Bosch-Siemens Hausgeräte, incl. Neff and Gagenau) offers HomeConnect that at least is within GDPR reach. Even better: If you already have a Home Assistant instance running there is a “Home Connect local” integration that,well, gives you the important benefits while keeping it local. Liebherr offers the “Smart Box” as an upgrade that your install yourself,but as far as I know there is no proper way to keep it offline. But Liebherr has a fair share of privacy certifications at least (and a lot to loose as loosing them for their “sidemarket” of household cooling appliances and thereby fucking over their professional market would really bite them…not that that is a guarantee, but…maybe it helps…

There are a few Asian brands that work with Tuya (which is a data security/privacy nightmare) but also support Tuya local (without cloud).

The information security risk for these solutions,especially when using proper network segmentation (which is easily done - if you aren’t into IT then get a Omada combined router and be done in 1h)… Last but not least: You can of course smarten up your fridge yourself. Get a binary door opening sensor, wireless temperature probe and most importantly a power measuring plug (Nous A1T are Tasmota based and cheap) so you can find out early if your device fucks up.

Besides that’Considering the energy prices here get the most efficient one you can afford. It will get amortization sooner than you think.

Haha, good point,I don’t know if he even had them on. He was pretty deranged and not fully clothed.

No worries, mate. No hard feelings. As I said - and this is what bothers me. I have no logical explanation and I am really a die hard evidence based medicine practitioner. That’s why it bothers me so much.

Yeah, saw the fall myself in full length. So did around 12 firies and my partner. (We were called for a person planning to jump, he jumped just when we left the truck) I see if I can find a news article of it - we made the news with it back then. Patient was fairly skinny and fairly young. But with that height that normally wouldn’t matter. Neither would bracing hands or anything make a difference.

And your doubt is very much indicated - I wouldn’t believe that storx myself if someone told me about it. That’s why I don’t repeat it in a non-anonymous context anymore…bad for my professional credibility. Even if you discount the whole bone situation the impact normay would have at least caused a intracerebral/subarachnoid haemorrhage…or ruptured the fucking aorta. Etc. Etc. I have no idea where the kinetic energy went. It has to go somewhere.

I am a paramedic and have seen a fair share of trauma. But around 15 years ago I saw someone take a fall that by all accounts and all probability should have killed said person. And I mean I literally saw that guy faceplant 15 meters directly onto the pavement, hitting the pavement with his skull first.

And I don’t mean something like “in a rush of Adrenaline he walked it off for two minutes and then died”. Nope. We took him in as a full trauma call. Besides the laceration on the forehead there was zero injury. The hospital did a full body CT scan, did MRIs of the most endangered areas. Nothing. Absolutely fucking nothing.

I have no idea, to this day, how that happened.

Nope. You can’t.

Brandenburg only has extended and codified the “taking an interruption of your travel” (Rast) into their nature laws - and you must leave after one day. You are only allowed to use it minimally and e.g. make no fire,etc. And even then you need permission from the owner - which the state doesn’t usually grant for their woods/grounds.

In Schleswig Holstein it’s totally forbidden besides the “wild camping spots” - but these are just more “wild” campgrounds, similar to what you find in US national parks. And cost money,btw.

Come on,the second game was decent!

Germany,rural area.

I call my GP. It might take a few tries to get through. Tell the receptionist what I’ve got, she is more or less trying to triage me. When it’s urgent enough and I am calling early enough I can usually get there on the same day but have to wait longer at the office,if it’s less serious it’s mostly one or two days,but with less waiting time at the office. To check in you hand them your insurance card. Medication is prescribed electronically, so you just hand the card (or do it online) at the pharmacy. The GP visit is free, medication has a small, limited copay. You get fully paid for 6 weeks of sickness per diagnosis by your employer, reduced pay for up to 2 years by the health insurance.

If it’s an illness requiring a specialist I can also try to book an appointment for that directly - but while that works well in larger cities it is totally impossible here, you simply won’t get an appointment, not even in a year. The same happens when your GP refers you to a specialist,but there are mechanisms to give you a more urgent appointment - which works sometimes,sometimes they don’t.

Same for me, I just knew it because I stumbled across it recently.

Well,tbf, AMD is at least a little bit better than Intel. They are even worse.

I fucking want proper, block based naming back

Tbh, as someone who just built their own system I am a little bit angry that they didn’t announce it a few months earlier - I would have waited a bit longer then to see their pricing.

The specs are solid for a “Proxmox NAS with ZFS and containers”. For a regular NAS it’s oversized,but we all know that. The trend towards integrated devices is there and I went down that way as well.(And if you can actually install a different OS of course)

Anyway: If they can deliver what they promise it might be one of the most interesting systems - it doesn’t have many of the issues the Ugreens have (lack of ECC,etc.) and if they manage to deliver… it’s pushing into a space a lot of prosumers and small companies are that is currently only covered by self builds or spending much more money than necessary.

They list the AI 9 Hx Pro 370 which does support ECC.

Thailand? No. Beautiful country with nice people.

Thailand and specifically going to Pattaya? Very much so. Going to the Philippines and telling you “Pattaya isn’t what it used to be” as a reason? Here officer this guy right there! That is direct code for either the guy wants younger sex slaves or is into shit that even in Thailand won’t fly anymore.

Before current standards Cortison was much more common, often with theophylline. That would have been the recipe in the 80/90 in a lot of countries, with the first beta2 sympathomimetics coming up(Fenoterol). Before that (60-70ies)theophylline and Ephedrine were often given solo, sometimes with a barbiturate to counter the simulant, also prednisone started to gain traction.

Before that my sources didn’t offer much,but Datura stramonium (Thornapple) was often used for ages - mostly smoked.

Nice article here,but it contains some errors: https://www.news-medical.net/health/Asthma-History.aspx