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alvaro

@alvaro@social.graves.cl

PhD in Cognitive Science, CS Engineer. Life is Turing computable and it is always DNS. BS in English, chamuyo en Español.

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alvaro , to Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services.

I have a disk for local backups (that is the only purpose of that disk). I was wondering what would make it last longer:

  • Keep it mounted to my server permanently (current solution)
  • Keep it unmounted most of the time, mount it when I'm going to do a backup (either daily or every 3 days, I don't mind changing that) and unmounting after the backup is done.

What would be the best strategy?

cc @selfhost @selfhosted

passepartout ,

I recently bought a second external drive to do a backup of the first one. In the process I'm going to switch to btrfs. It can do data scrubbing which allows for self repair of corrupted data, which can occur if you leave a drive unpowered in a closet for some years.

SheeEttin ,

Mounting or unmounting a filesystem won't make a difference for drive longevity.

If you want to keep your backups secure, you want to keep them offline, so if you get ransomware it doesn't encrypt your backup too. (Or if you just mistype a command and target the wrong device, folder, etc.)

But drive motor starts and stops are when the most failures occur. So the ultimate question isn't how to make a drive last longer, it's how you plan to handle it when the failure inevitably occurs.

alvaro , to Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services.

Is there a better ways to import Flac albums from bandcamp to a navidrome or jellyfin instance? I'm downloading and rsync'ing like a caveman and I suspect someone already solved this issue

cc @selfhost @selfhosted

alto ,

You should check out beets

thatcasualgamingguy ,
@thatcasualgamingguy@lemmy.nerdcore.social avatar

I think you're looking for something like this: https://github.com/meeb/bandcampsync

alvaro , to Selfhosted

[question] Alt-text service, self hosted

Is there a service that I could plug into my misskey/firefish/whatev that provides an alt-text for an image I'm posting. I don't post images that often, so the few times, it would be nice to have an automatic OCR or LLM/Stable Diffusion description of a picture attached to it.

Of course, without depending on Google or similars.

Any ideas? cc @selfhost @selfhosted

alvaro OP ,

@Deebster maybe just OCR would be enough for a lot of cases

Deebster ,
@Deebster@programming.dev avatar

Yeah, that's what I mean by transcriptions; if you're mostly posting screenshots of social media posts then it'd probably work quite well, but if it's photos you're definitely going to need something more complicated.

alvaro , to Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services.

Is there a service that I could plug into my misskey/firefish/whatev that provides an alt-text for an image I'm posting. I don't post images that often, so the few times, it would be nice to have an automatic OCR or LLM/Stable Diffusion description of a picture attached to it.

Of course, without depending on Google or similars.

Any ideas? cc @selfhost @selfhosted

alvaro , to Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services.

I want to try using along with and see how the experiment goes. Has anybody done the same? Cc @selfhost @selfhosted @selfhst

alvaro , to homeassistant

I was wondering if someone has done something similar:

I want to detect if one of the kitchen burners have been running for a long time. Gas sensors won't work because the fires are running.

I was thinking that a solution could be to have a wifi-enabled thermostat that sends the temperature to home assistant and if it is above > X for Y minutes, send an alarm/email/notification. The sensor could be hidden below the burners and connected via a cable to measure the temperature.

Does this make sense? Does anybody have some idea how to implement this (maybe using a ESP8266)?

Is there other alternative?

cc @homeassistant @homeassistant @selfhost @selfhosted @ironicbadger

butitsnotme ,

Not that I’ve done this, but an IR sensor would probably work well.

shnizmuffin ,
@shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol avatar

Why temperature?

Assuming your burners are controlled by dials, slap a magnet on each of them and set up reed switches.

alvaro , to Selfhosted

I would like to have a mechanism to set up a server automagically…

Similarly I would like to set up my user account settings (Tmux plugins, .zshrc and vim settings, etc) that I can replicate in multiple machines via a script (I have a custom script for this but I want a more solid alternative)

Thoughts on what infra-as-code solution would work best? Any similar experiences or use cases with one Thanks!
Cc @selfhost @selfhosted

MajorHavoc ,

I assume you mean to check on his often they're is the breaking changes? :)

Declarative style isn't perfect, but it's a massive improvement from straight bash scripting.

marx2k ,

💯

We're an ansible shop and yeah it's better than bash scripting (where it makes sense) but ansible.. man it does have some peculiarities :/

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