I would say deterministic rather than predictable.

I think the universe is deterministic and that there isn’t something inside our heads that bypasses determinism and creates free will.

Unpredictability is not the same as free will.

In 2008 at about 22:30 waiting for some people after a meal in a deserted South African shopping centre, a man on a Segway rounds the corner towards me then disappears in to the distance.

RAID is 100% about uptime, not backups. If you want less downtime then RAID is your friend.

Having said that, RAID in modern systems is broken and you should use ZFS instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l55GfAwa8RI

Firewall bypass _°!°

If you move from twitter thinking it’ll not end up like twitter you’re wrong. It’ll go through the same growing pains process and you’ll end up right back where you started with nothing to show for it.

Yet

https://github.com/jlesage/docker-firefox

Having a browser in a browser is surprisingly useful.

I was meant to be Better FS, but it corrupted it to btrfs without noticing.

I think it has more issues than just with raid 5 &6!

I had almost exactly the same thing happen.

The whole point of RAID redundancy is uptime. The fact that btrfs doesn’t boot with a degraded disk is utterly ridiculous and speaks volumes of the developers.

It’s this: https://github.com/jlesage/docker-firefox

Not sure why I was downvoted for answering a question accurately.

I use an SMTP Relay for sending mail, so I don’t hit issues with sending.

I’m also using iredmail. Apart from it needing more hardware than it used to its been pretty stable. I use an SMTP Relay for sending mail, so I don’t hit issues with sending. Not that I ever actually send many emails.

No. I host Firefox that runs in a browser.

It’s one of my favourite things. So places that may block certain sites can be bypassed.

Opnsense

Vaultwarden

Email

Home assistant

Emby

Gitea

Paperless-ngx

Firefox

Some context shots. This is in my garage which is directly below my living room. Everything leads back here and the cat cable from the fibre ONT leads here from the other side of the garage also. I have 2 redundant gig links to a switch in the living room where it was weirdly easier to go outside the garage, up the outside wall and then back in to the house.

There is a rack mount standard desktop with a 4 port Intel NIC and an IT mode HBA, 6 spinning HDDs, an SSD and 2x NVME drives. This is my main Proxmox server running Opnsense and a whole host of other services, including email. On to of it I have a monitor, 3 external HDDs used for backups and another desktop I picked up cheap which runs as the Zoneminder CCTV box.

At the very top there is a cheap POE dumb switch that powers the CCTV camera and then a Netgear 24 port switch with VLANs configured for various networks - Main, IoT, VoIP, CCTV… I have the same switch up in the living room also.

At the very bottom almost invisible is a Belkin UPS and a strip adapter that has several smart plugs in which I use to power my backup drives. That way my backup drives are off, not just unmounted unless a backup is running. The aim was to avoid any attacker / system wide issue taking down the backup drives. I sleep a smidgen better at night for that.

Not pictured is an Odroid HC2 that lives upstairs and that I had hoped to rig up as a remote backup device, but I’ve never really got around to setting it up properly or putting anything other than a small capacity HDD in. It does run HomeAssistant though so that’s pretty useful.

A bit more context

More guts showing the mess.

Lets just appreciate how damn lucky I was when I picked up this server rack. It doesn’t fit with the carpet down, so had to peel that back. Millimetre perfect.

If it’s for more than a minute I’ll screw in VGA and DVI cables