My advice is avoid tape backups. The cost, risk of media degredation, and management overhead make them not worth it, especially for a homelab.

Also, restoring an entire VM is almost easier than recovering a single file, just because of the sequential nature of reading data from a tape. Data recoveries are pretty slow in general.

I backup to an external hard drive with regular copies to iDrive S3. Been doing it that way for a number of years with no problems.

Why try to reach an agreement with someone who is just going to rip it up and throw it in your face in a few years? Backstabbing and broken promises are a byproduct of empires and the US has a long trail of those behind it.

“Never interrupt your enemy while they are making a mistake.”

I remember reading that. It was pretty funny. Jihad is easy. Running a country is not. Who would have thought.

I have a rule that “Nothing will be automated that cannot be manually overridden.”

Well, actually it’s my wife’s rule but it’s a good rule nonetheless. As a result, there’s a big panel full of relays in the basement that is the “last mile” for anything climate control or security related.

There have been a few times when it’s been handy. Like when the exhaust fan isn’t working and I don’t want to debug the ESP32 controller today so I just flip it over to “Manual”.

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Reporters should all just say it was Don Jr.

I use Jellyfin with FinAmp for Android. Even supports offline caching.

It’s not like they have to work very hard at it at this point.

You got me there.

Saudi Arabia & murdering journalists.

Name a more iconic duo.

Jellyfin, Immich, and Paperless-ngx are three of the apps I use the most but you do whatever works best for you. That’s half the advantage of self hosting. You can have a solution that’s custom tailored to your needs.

Considering they’ve been murdering Palestinians en masse and the Trump Administration has been perfectly fine with that, I’m sure the Israelis have a pass to do whatever they want. Explicit or not.

Nah. They resent us because we don’t have high quality, affordable healthcare sOcIaLiSm.

That really sucks. The generic defect is brutal. I’ve known people who have had it. It can cause cancer that just keeps coming back over and over. Treatment is just stalling the inevitable.

I don’t think it’s Paris that people dislike.

America as a country needs to go fuck itself for a while so it can really learn the lesson of how productive that is.

Currently fucking ourselves. Unfortunately, I think it’s going to have to get a lot more painful before most of the people who need to learn from it actually do.

If they could detain him indefinitely, that would be great.

Canadians: Burn the White House to the ground

Me: “Oh no! Anyway…”