Agree with others, if you try to do a replica it’s going to be very inefficient, and your costs will be high. You’re looking for a backup, then just nightly/weekly you perform your backups. Any blob storage then will do, just work out what pricing works for you. Just plan out how you’d do a restore in case everything came crashing down - from ground up how would you bring your services back online?

HDD enclosure is a fine way to start, as long as you know it has limitations. Eventually you’ll probably need more storage, and it won’t scale. That being said, you can get 26TB hard drives now, it’ll be a while. Just make sure you plan out how to back it up. Remember the rule - if you can’t afford to buy a backup then you can’t afford to do the project. Make sure you have backups in mind.

If you decide to upgrade to a full NAS solution later also remember that during that migration you probably will need to use new hard drives while migrating as your current ones will need to be copied from to the new NAS, meaning you will probably end up with a few redundant drives. Not a huge thing, but there will be no “in-place” upgrade. It all depends on where you want your homelab to go in the future.

GCP and Azure both do multi-regional so much better than AWS. I’m always shocked at how region-dependent companies are that I work at. The problem is that multi-regional needs to be a decision from the ground up, from day one. If it’s not it’s so much harder to convert to be multi-regional

Yeah I always carry a couple 20s just in case for those reasons, but not a debit card. In addition to everything else, a debit card is a direct link to your money. A thief figures out how to use it, that’s your money gone.

If you’re in the states just use a credit card. Hold is out there but as long as you aren’t going towards your limit then it’s fine and ignorable. Just pay it off every month and it’ll build your credit too. I don’t even carry a debit card with me anymore.

Dear God what would I do. The thought of not buying toilet paper by packs of 96. The horror

Fear is such a strong word there. Pity. I pity men like that. It’s not alpha, everything they said is fear.

Fear of different races. Fear of different sexualities. Fear of anything different from their social norm, breaking out, doing anything different.

I see someone so stuck in their way of thinking that they are terrified of everything, and I pity them.

Real actual strong men don’t care. At all. Homosexuals and other races don’t bother them. Real men don’t care about other people live their lives or how other people see them. Actual men don’t need labels and they definitely don’t need to prove their manliness to anyone. Posts like this cause pity because they’re so desperate to prove to everyone (and themselves) that they are masculine, when all I see is a scared boy.

No I read it, I get what you mean. If it’s about gluttony you would be targeting everyone, not just the poors, because obviously we look at the extravagance of the rich and that’s where the waste is, but saw your nuance. Those dang poors celebrating thanksgiving? Disgusting. The only people who can be gluttonous and wasteful are the rich, am I right? Right.

The US data center industry provides significant benefits to local communities—creating hundreds of thousands of high-wage jobs…

Bullshit. Real tired of this argument. It’s well known that datacenters are minimally staffed. Iowa got one and they convinced people that it would bring high paying jobs. Of course it didn’t. The high paying jobs are in tech centers, and even then they are less and less. Data centers are meant to just run with minimal involvement from humans. Everyone should fight for them to not be near them.

Yeah holidays are only for those who can afford it!

That would be an interesting badge though on post, similar to the new user on Voyager. We are so small we could have a voting system to apply a spam badge to user that would expire after 30 days or something.

Honestly didn’t know the 99% was per year. My math was misleading because of rounding, but I was doing 0.990.990.99*0.99

Those numbers seem very heavily skewed in your favor - and even then with them, you’re willing to gamble that you’re not the 1 out of 5? Having a kid is a life-altering thing, a “You’re probably not getting the job you dreamed of or live where you want” type of life alteration at a young age - or at least you’re putting those things off for decades. I mean, you do you I guess, I’d prefer to know what I’m getting into first.

That’s the neat part aint it. Even for condoms, probability is only 99% for each time you do it. That means that it’s 99% chance you won’t get pregnant the first time. Then 98% safe 2 times having sex, then 96% safe if you have sex 4 times, and on and on. That’s with a good birth control option. The “pull out method” is not a good one. Once you’re maybe okay, and that’s a strong maybe. Every time beyond that is a gamble that rivals a vegas casino.

So yeah, those odds gotta be pretty damn good to be able to trust it.

Agreed. The vast majority of us I believe are actually older and a bit more well adjusted. I’m fine with leaving the weird nerd incel thing behind. I’m still a nerd, but not a weird nerd.

I saw someone posting nice guy incel content here recently and just thought nope, fuck that, and posted instead asking how people grew out of that mindset. I want us to be known for being a bit wiser, and more helpful rather than reinforcing bad mindsets.

Agreed that if someone submits a dmca request they should be egregious enough that they’re willing to pay for lawyers and court fees. If they’re not ready to commit to that then it’s not that severe

Again, the proposed solution stands. Set up your own instance and prove us all wrong, show us how to make this local place where people talk to each other in their physical community.

There, that better? Show us how to do it, if it’s popular more will do it.

And I believe this logical fallacy is Moral Equivalence.

We’re not comparing here, I’m not biting on the rage bait. Again, the proposed solution stands. Set up your own instance and prove us all wrong, show us how to make this utopia you promise.

Ah I believe this is the Either/Or logical fallacy.

People not wanting to see hate speech or propaganda does not mean they are in echo chambers. Those are two different things.

It also doesn’t stand with my original statement. Go set up your own instance that is welcoming. That would prove that it’s not an echo chamber and expand the fediverse. Win win from what I see. Let us know when it’s up.

Your views here go against the nature of the fediverse. You’re telling people they should go there and be unhappy with their choices. That’s not how the fediverse works.

The fediverse way to to spun up a Mexican server which does have the views and federation people want, and encourage others to join naturally.