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What part were you getting hung up on?

That's news to me considering the EPA-rated fuel economy of vehicles with both hybrid and pure ICE drivetrains is universally higher for the hybrid versions.

An ICE vehicle needs a much larger engine than is truly necessary due to the inefficiencies and limitations of mechanical transmissions, whereas a hybrid can have a much smaller, more efficient engine.

A hybrid can potentially act like a 'perfect' transmission, capable of taking in power from an engine running at its single most efficient RPM and, with the aid of battery storage, produce any combination of speed and torque that has an average power less than the output of the ICE.

Oh nice a nicely-formatted list of reasons I don't switch phones more frequently than once every 5 years: I loathe setting them up as specifically as I want them to behave

Realistically, the target audience are organizations as nowadays most business laptops are being carried between docking stations with the occasional meeting or air travel in-between and 13" is an excellent size to meet those needs.

When hooked to a docking station, the screen size and keyboard is entirely irrelevant and modern laptop performance is...honestly crazy good.

When in a meeting, it's probably being either used to take notes fullscreen or show a presentation, so pretty neutral.

Finally, when traveling, you can really can feel the difference between a 13" and a 15" when you're running on too short of a layover between flights.

Is there a non-video source for this information?

And if they somehow do, rest assured that red states will use it as an opportunity to disarm LGBT folk for being 'violently mentally ill' before the ink is dry on the decision.

Virtualizing applications that use 3d graphics can be a pain

My partner and I use a git repository on our self-hosted gitea instance for household management.

Issue tracker and kanban boards for task management, wiki for documentation, and some infrastructure components are version controlled in the repo itself.

Home Assistant (also self-hosted) provides the ability to easily and automatically create issues based on schedules and sensor data, like creating a git issue when when weather conditions tomorrow may necessitate checking this afternoon that nothing gets left out in the rain.

Matrix (also self-hosted) lets Gitea and Home Assistant bully us into remembering to do things we might have forgotten. (Send a second notification if the washer finished 15 minutes ago, but the dryer never started)

It's been fantsstic being able to create git issues for honey-dos as well as having the automations for creating issues for recurring tasks. “Hey we need to take X to the vet for Y sometime next week” “Oh yeah, can you go ahead and put in a ticket?” And vice versa.

I'm personally a fan of plaintext accounting tools like ledger and moved to that from GNUCash several years ago after fighting with the DB getting corrupted repeatedly. There are a few tools for importing from GNUCash as well as many tools for interacting with the ledger on mobile devices, so perhaps worth looking into.

Must have an android client,support mtls,support attachments and card layout.

ps: pls don’t suggest to save to local storage and sync that.

pls don’t suggest this app that cant do that but its great.

Anyways anyone aware of any app that can do that?

Nope, you seem to be well aware of the options available to you and there isn't any one single app that meets all of your requirements, so unfortunately we can't recommend anything at all to you, per your specific request.

You'll have to build it yourself either from scratch or by taking one of the existing open-source tools and adding the missing functionality.

Looking forward to your pull requests!

I think it's worth pointing out that this article is 11 years old, so that 1TB rule-of-thumb probably probably needs to be adjusted for modern disks.

If you have 2 full backups (18TB drives being more than sufficient) of the array, especially if one of those is offsite, then I'd say you're really not at a high enough risk of losing data during a rebuild to justify proactively rebuilding the array until you have at least 2 or more disks to add.

My partner and I self-host a matrix server + element frontend locally, and we are both in a few federated chats with people and organizations elsewhere.

We mostly stood it up to replace a discord server that we were using for communication, organization, and home automation in anticipation of API/policy changes on Discord's end. For that application it has worked really well and it's a lot easier to integrate with software that spams log or alert data.

Obviously biased, but I'm really concerned this will lead to it becoming infeasible to self-host with working federation and result in further centralization of the network.

Mastodon has a ton more users and I'm not aware of that having to resort to IRC-style federation whitelists.

I'm wondering if this is just another instance of kbin/lemmy moderation tools being insufficient for the task and if that needs to be fixed before considering breaking federation for small/individual instances.

Which I'm not sure I get the popular mentioning of since it seems to serve a very different purpose than NextCloud does, like not even similar niches.

Nothing against it, of course, it just doesn't feel like an 'alternative' to NC.

Still holding onto my Samsung Galaxy Note9

It has an excellent built-in stylus with a headphone jack and expandable storage to boot. Nothing that's come out since feels like an upgrade, only various sidegrades.

Yeah, rolling release on a server sounds horrifying. You couldn't pay me enough to live that nightmare.

There's a reason "enterprise" server distros exist. Install LTS release once every 2, 4, or 5 years depending on taste, login to update as you remember the machine is even running an OS, and just generally forget the machine exists for several years at a time.

Plugging pass/Password Store/Android Password Store for anyone wanting a good wrapper around git+pgp for desktop/Android using a YubiKey or similar hardware security key. It has pretty good OTP support built-in.

Stop using a rolling release distro for something that you actually rely on day-to-day.

OpenWRT, because it has a nice interface, runs on half a toaster, and I've yet to find something that I need it do that it couldn't do but OPNSense could.

I did try PFSense many years back and it just seemed overly complicated and generally flaky. I had trouble setting it up as tinc vpn client despite that being a trivial task in OpenWRT, so I switched back.

125W (Less than $15/month) or so for

• Ryzen 9 3900X
• 64GB RAM
• 2x4TB NVMe (ZFS Mirror)
• 5x14TB HDD (ZFS RAID-Z2)
• 2.5GBe Network Card
• 5-port 2.5GBe Network Switch
• 5-port 1GBe POE Network Switch w/ one Reolink Camera attached

I generally leave powerManagement.cpuFreqGovernor = "powersave" in my Nix config as well, which saves about 40W ($4/mo or so) for my typical load as best as I can tell, and I disable it if I'm doing bulk data processing on a time crunch.

I backup to an external drive and then rclone copy that up to backblaze B2

Mastodon is a hellavalot easier to self-host then Lemmy, so if you got Lemmy running reliably then Mastodon would be a breeze.

The Walmart app provides historical receipt data if you have an associated card. A few months ago I spot-checked a 'standard basket of goods' (food and household items often repurchased) for myself between then and the end of 2019 (right before covid), and the average increase in price of those goods over that period of time was just about 50% overall for my personal basket of goods.

Restic and borg are both sorta considered 'standard' for doing incremental backups beyond filesystem snapshotting.

I use restic and it automatically handles stuff like snapshotting, compression, deduplication, and encryption for you.

I use restic with a local external drive that is then synced to backblaze b2 via rclone.

DigitalOcean and Vultr are options that "just work" and have reasonable options available in $5-6/month category.

DO is more established and I've used them for nearly 10 years now for a $6/mo VPS and for managing DNS for my domains. Vultr has some much closer datacenter options if you happen to be in the southeast US, rather than basically just covering California and NYC like DO does.

Given how common it is for people to use the 'reset password' link for this exact purpose, it does make it seem kinda redundant to even implement passwords on many services to begin with.

SBCs like the RPi are kind of awkwardly in-between a microcontroller like an Arduino or ESP32 that you can actually trust with handling GPIO and data logging, and a real Linux system that can actually do meaningful computational work.

Pretty much the only task I've found them reliably appropriate for is running OctoPrint, really really light computer vision tasks for robotics, or hooking up an RTL-SDR to use as a police/HAM scanner. Outside of those, it's so much easier to use either a cheaper and more reliable MCU or a much more powerful old laptop or desktop.

After much fighting with and trying of other solution, that's what I ended up settling with.

I would strongly suggest not using 900GB 10kRPM drives (and especially not 10 of them) in [current year] when brand-new 8TB hard drives cost $120, and 14+TB recertified drives aren't much more than that. The power costs of 7 more drives than you need for the capacity definitely add up over several years of runtime.

My partner and I use a git repository on our self-hosted gitea instance for household management.

Issue tracker and kanban boards for task management, wiki for documentation, and some infrastructure components are version controlled in the repo itself. You could almost certainly get away with just the issue tracker.

Home Assistant (also self-hosted) provides the ability to easily and automatically create issues based on schedules and sensor data, like creating a git issue when when weather conditions tomorrow may necessitate checking this afternoon that nothing gets left out in the rain.

Matrix (also self-hosted) lets Gitea and Home Assistant bully us into remembering to do things we might have forgotten. (Send a second notification if the washer finished 15 minutes ago, but the dryer never started)

It’s been fantastic being able to create git issues for honey-dos as well as having the automations for creating issues for recurring tasks. “Hey we need to take X to the vet for Y sometime next week” “Oh yeah, can you go ahead and put in a ticket?” And vice versa.

If you are dead set on a specifically certificate-backed access control scheme, a VPN with the ability to use the hardware-backed certificate store (such as OpenVPN) is likely easier to set up as it is better supported on mobile devices and doesn't require application-level support (i.e. everything is protected, not just the apps w/ mTLS support)

https://openvpn.net/faq/how-do-i-use-a-client-certificate-and-private-key-from-the-android-keychain/

I ran RAID-Z2 across 4x14TB and a (4+8)TB LVM LV for close to a year before finally swapping the (4+8)TB LV for a 5th 14TB drive for via zpool replace without issue. I did, however, make sure to use RAID-Z2 rather than Z1 to account for said shenanigans out of an abundance of caution and I would highly recommend doing the same. That is to say, the extra 2x2TB would be good additional parity, but I would only consider it as additional parity, not the only parity.

Based on fairly unscientific testing from before and after, it did not appear to meaningfully affect performance.

People recommend backblaze B2 as a restic/rclone/borg backend because it works extremely well and is an excellent value compared to other available options at a near-flat $6/TB*month rate.

The reason they 'force linux users to use their b2 product' is very specifically done, on purpose, to avoid the exact kind of abuse you want to do, which is upload 18TB of near-incompressible data for them to store for $9/month or less.

Buy a 20TB harddrive and keep it in a fireproof filebox, and maybe another to keep at a friends house. You don't need cloud backups for media you can reaquire relatively easily, save that for the stuff you can't trivially replace.

Used Ubuntu for ~15 years, switched to NixOS a couple months ago and haven't looked back.

I've made a habit of clean installing all of the desktops/laptops/servers in my life on the first point release of each LTS (i.e. 22.04.1). That would mean there was time for the dust to settle and for me to tweak my install/customization scripts from the previous LTS.

So since I knew I was gonna have to modify my Ubuntu install scripts to work with 24.04 anyways, I fiigured it was a decent time to try and see if I could get the install scripts converted to a nix config instead, and it ended up working a treat.

I do find rclone to be a bit more comprehensible for that purpose, rsync always makes me feel like I'm in https://xkcd.com/1168/

What exactly is the point of full disk encryption if the system auto-unlocks on boot?

An external hard drive is a lot faster than my internet connection and helps fulfill 3-2-1 requirements.

NextCloud main use is file synchronization

Is it? Interesting. I don't think I've ever even considered using it for that purpose.

I mostly use it as an easily web-accessible interface for a variety of unified productivity and organization software (file upload/download, office suite, notes, calendar, etc), with easy ability to do stuff like create a password-protected shared folders of pictures/documents I can easily share with friends and family who don't have accounts so they can upload/download/organize/edit files with me and each other from a browser without having to install additional software on client devices.

Very similar heuristic here, insofar as when to use passphrases and how long.

LUKS and Bitlocker volumes get 8 words, computer logins usually get 4 words (potentially more depending on frequency/criticality of system).

Smartcards and mobile devices do have numeric pins due to frequency of use and relative difficulty in copying those for offline attacks.

Websites that are filled in w/ password manager get passwords get the random symbol-laden strings that 'meet requirements'