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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • I have a heap of yard and keep having flashes of inspiration to build raised garden beds to plant stuff in… except then I remember I hate gardening, and dont like vegetables :-\

    Have you ever looked in to aquaponics? I have fish tanks and always thought setting them up as an aquaponics type deal would be cool - filtration + free food! - but I’m not actually sure how safe it is to eat products grown in poop from decorative fish.






  • I’ve been using rsync and cron as a backup for like… 20+ years? Always had n+1 hard disks, with one accessed read only by a script that writes a copy to another drive once a day. I’ve got files from circa-2000 still floating around so the system has been working…

    But figured it was time for a deduplicating setup since my data is blowing out a bit. After some trial and error have opted for Duplicacy. Back up running on my home server, and pushing the chunks to my work server (read: server at my workshop as opposed to “work server” as such). Went with a 20:2 erasure coding for that par2-esque bitrot protection.

    Somewhat worried since using a program to maintain archives means you rely on that program existing 5ever, and not corrupting anything… but I figure unraid with 2 parity drives is pretty resilient in terms of hardware failure, and I’m already using Crashplan for remote backups so I’ve got a fallback.


  • By homelab standards, I am a very small fish. I just prefer not to delete stuff.

    My Dell setup is all second hand enterprise gear I bought just before the price rises. Dual Xeons and 512GB of RAM which burns a lot of power and has approximately 800% more computing power than I need. But it is fun to watch the blinking lights.

    My other setup is made up from old PC hardware I had laying around. Basically just collected the case that best suited lots of hard disks, the highest rated PSU, the best matching sticks of RAM etc… Probably should have cleaned the case out properly in hindsight. Because its all SATA / SSD / NVME it actually draws basically nothing. The spinny drives all shut down when not in use - which is most of the time. The SSD cache has more than enough space to keep up with daily activities.


  • Started a back up running on my main storage drive last night.

    It started “indexing” around 9pm. It is now 9am and still hasnt finished reading all the files. Pretty sure its around 10TB or so from last time I ran du. File count would probably be in the millions somewhere because there’s a healthy mix of documents, photos, videos.

    My photography drive backup is currently running - ETA to completion 15 days at 50MBps.

    Initial seed was always going to suck. Should be fast to keep up to date though.





  • I love when you bust Gemini (or similar) telling you porkies and its like “haahhah oh yeah, I made up that up, sorry”.

    I wish you could set the confidence level for stuff. Like for tech projects where you just want it to read the equivalent of man <application> and then make it so you can ask questions in natural language I want it to be 100% confident of the answer because it exists in the documentation, not made up because reasons.





  • I think its like the dunny rolls during covid… If there’s a temporary reduction in availability but people compound it by panic buying, it exagerates the scarcity to the point where it affects pricing.

    I’m sure PHON and LNP are pissed that its come down a bit. Whinging about how “Albo” isnt doing anything about fuel prices was about their biggest marketing ploy and now its gone.



  • Tried out Hello Harry burgers tonight… Utter shite.

    Tasteless meat, the sauces and pickles are sweet (how??), and worse - brioche buns! So it’s like eating pastry, with sugary sauces, and a patty with no taste.

    Chips were also anaemic and tasteless.

    Also got a strawberry milkshake to complete the experience… Which is at least meant to be sweet I guess? But just tasted like milk with strawberry syrup squirted in. On the one hand I guess that’s technically all that’s required for a milkshake, but on the other hand how is that $8?

    Anyway. 0/10. Not recommended at all.