Fixed headaches with my proxmox backup server. It has a SAS-controller and 4 spinning drives running backups at detached garage and the old fujitsu desktop I dug out of office dumpster pile just kept crashing. Flashed controller to IT-firmware, updated bios on motherboard and did everything else I could figure out but the system just lost the drives pretty much daily and required a hard reset. Turns out, or at least that’s my conclusion, that the PSU on the machine just didn’t have enough juice for the whole setup and that caused instability. I dug out old (2010 or so) desktop from my own pile and threw 600W PSU on the box, it’s now been stable for at least a week.

I would’ve liked to keep the fujitsu-machine as it’s in a more compact case and couple of generations newer CPU, but that thing has propietary power supply so it was easier to swap out the whole system and just move drives from one to another. So, the current setup consumes maybe a bit more electricity, but at least it’s doing what it is supposed to.

Also known as Schrödinger’s Backup.

That is a problem, I agree. But I still feel like it would be beneficial if there was some standard on HTTP or other protocols which could limit user access based on PG-rating instead of everyone developing their own approach. It could also be something like robots.txt, but for PG-rating, where client would do the verification.

And, as I already mentioned, that should be strictly local only setting and only for parental/guardian controlling what minors can and can’t do with their devices.

There is a very good argument for OS level age ‘tracking’ as a means of creating a cohesive environment for software and websites to operate without having to implement individual age verification. The biggest actual issue here is how the OS determines what the user’s age is.

I agree with you on this. I wouldn’t mind if there was a mechanism on browsers which would send ‘child/teen/adult’ (or whatever they’d be called) data to websites in request headers since they already report a ton of stuff to the server anyways. It would be trivial for adult sites to check one header and limit access based on that. But the setting needs to be local only, so that parents could easily set restricted accounts for their kids. The point where user age must be validated via any 3rd party it’s no longer about parental controls and the whole thing becomes a surveillance tool.

Also the limits should be agreed somehow on at least somewhat global basis so that it’s only used for porn/gore/horror and other stuff like that. Things like sexual education, religious topics (likely both pro- and against-), medical stuff and things like that should be left out of the filtering. But as with practically every ‘think of the children’-thing proposed for the internet it’s got nothing to do with children nor used only for that.

Zfs can become painfully slow if you don’t have RAM for it. I tried to run ZFS on my old setup with 64GB RAM and with moderate amount of virtual hosts and it was nearly useless with heavier io-loads. I didn’t try to tweak settings for it, so there might be some workarounds to make it work better, I just repartitioned all the storage drives with mdadm raid5 array and lvm-thin on top of that. Zfs will work with limited memory in a sense that you don’t risk losing data because of it, but as mentioned, performance might drop significantly. Now that I have a system which has memory to run raidz2 it’s pretty damn good, but with limited hardware I would not recommend it.

LVM itself is pretty trivial to move on a another system, most modern kernels just autodetect volume groups and you can use them as any normal filesystem. If you move full, intact, mdadm array to a new system (and have necessary utils installed) it should be autodetected too, but specially with degraded array manual reassembly might be needed. I don’t know what kind of issues you’ve been getting, but in general moving both lvm and mdadm drives between systems is pretty painless. Instead of mdadm you could also run lvm-mirroring on the drives so it’ll drop one layer off from your setup and it potentially makes rebuilding the array a bit simpler on another system, but neither approach should prevent moving drives to another host.

Lvm-thin is more flexible and while it might be a slightly slower on some scenarios I’d still recommend using that. Maybe the biggest benefit you’ll get from it is an option to take snapshots from VMs. Mounting plain directories will work too, but if your storage is only used by proxmox I don’t see any point in that over LVM setup.

In Finland conscripts get 6.15 - 14.25€/day depending on how long they’ve been in service. Women get additional 1,50/day to cover underwear and hygiene products not provided by military. Also there’s options to get support from the state for example if you have family to feed while you’re serving.

Hired personnel get roughly between 1600 and 8000€/month depending on rank, service age and a lot of other factors. Also they can get task-related extras.

Comparing salaries is a bit irrelevant as our living expenses, taxes, health care, insurances and everything are wildly different. But for 100k you can get a pretty nice new car or a small apartment (not in Helsinki area). 200k will get you a decent house with garage, but again not in Helsinki.

Also, we don’t really have infantry on a salary, as the conscription will take care of that. Practically all military personnel on salary are some sort of officers. More details are available on Finnish defence forces website.

For whatever reason ISPs tend (at least in here) to be pretty bad at keeping their DNS services up and running and that could cause issues you’re having. Easy test is to switch your laptop DNS servers to cloudflare (1.1.1.1, 1.0.0.1) or opendns (208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220) and see if the problem goes away. Or even faster by doing single queries from terminal, like ‘dig a google.com @1.1.1.1’.

If that helps you can change your router WAN DNS server to something than what operator offers you via DHCP. I personally use opendns servers, but cloudflare or google (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4) are common pretty decent choices too.

Depends on what you’re looking for, but for server use even a bit older hardware is just fine. My proxmox server has Xeon 2620v3 CPU and it’s plenty for my needs. For storage I went with SAS-controller, controllers are relatively cheap and if you happen to have a friend in some IT department you might get lucky when they replace hardware. RAM is a pain in the rear, but 8GB DDR4 rdimms work still just fine (if someone is interested I have few around)

Personally I wouldn’t pay current prices for new hardware, specially if it’s for hosting. A bit older, but server rated, components give a lot more value for your money.

Billionaire mysteriously dies and state collects a portion of their assets generously donated all his wealth and assets to the mother Russia in his will.

So creating an onlyfans account using Grok is profitable?

Finland has similar thing, but it is not capped. There’s a ton of 100 000+€ fines given around here. Obviously with Musk it would be a bit different, since the fine is based on actual income, not some imaginary monopoly money on the stock market.

the joke was that in the USA you can be multi millionaire+ wealthy and pay 0% tax

That is the actual joke here, agreed. If, and that’s a pretty damn big if, there was any sense on USA government they could just take our progressive steps and leave everything above 35% away from it and still have a crapload of budget to actually make their country great again.

But spending 100 million bucks per hour to demolish schools half way across the world is cool too I guess.

You don’t need to be Elon-wealthy to get those percentages. Over 500 000€/year salary gives you nice 50% tax bracket. You absolutely are not poor if your taxes are that high, but you don’t need to be CEO of Google either.

This does not apply to “installing software”.

So it doesn’t apply when I click the big button which says ‘Install’ on F-Droid app on my phone?

And it does come with risk,

Just like installing software from the ‘secure’ Google Play store.

Installing software is installing software, no matter where you get that software from. That’s it. You can try to twist that with nuances on terminology or invent new ones, the end result is that an piece of software is installed on the system and nothing more. It doesn’t matter if the software came from play store, f-droid, steam, windows store, shady google drive link or the pirate bay. It doesn’t matter if you’re a power user or never seen a smartphone before in your life.

Sure, there might differences in potential security, compatibility, licensing and whatever, but it is still a piece of software being installed.

“installing apps from outside the Google Play Store”

To me that implies it’s somehow different than just installing software. You could say ‘install from play store’ or ‘install from f-droid’ if you need to specify which app repository you should use, as that what it is. Sideloading might be an appropriate term if you need to upload apk to your device via USB-cable from your PC, which the term originally meant.

to make it sound somehow dangerous or complicated in order to justify

[Citation needed]

From the article:

This “advanced flow” is for power users and enthusiasts who “want to take educated risks to install software from unverified developers.” Google says it was “designed carefully to prevent those in the midst of a scam attempt from being coerced by high pressure tactics to install malicious software.”

Sure, the term itself comes from 1990s, but lately specially Google tries to twist that to mean something only ‘power users’ do and it comes with a ‘educated risk’.

Do you consider installing games to you PC from Steam sideloading too? What about downloading Firefox installer? It is installing software on your computer, no matter if that computer happens to be in a cellphone form factor, and always has been. Sideloading is a made up term to make it sound somehow dangerous or complicated in order to justify even bigger walls on the ecosystem garden and control how people use their own devices.

“This is Android’s new ‘advanced flow’ for INSTALLING apps without verification”. Sideloading is such a bullshit term made only to confuse consumers. They can wrap that in sparkling wrapper, but it’s still security theater at best and definetly misleading. Apps from F-Droid or any other app ‘store’ are not any less safe than the ones at googles own offering.

No deduplication, encryption nor support for non-linux operating systems for a start.

Not from my wife if I lose our photo collection which has been building up since we got our first digital camera 20ish years ago.

I have dynamic dns address and a handful of CNAME records on my domains pointing on that dyndns-address so I can use ‘proper’ names with my services. When my public IP changes it takes a few minutes for the records to update, but it usually happens only when my router reboots so it’s been good enough for me.

Also I use two separate dyndns providers so there’s likely at least one working DNS entry to my network.