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@CmdrShepard49 @orsetto Also, don’t use hardware raid. If the controller ever fails, you lose all your data unless you can replace it with the same controller. If you do have a raid controller, you configure it to do JBOD so you can use software raid (or snapraid); at which point, you can do the same thing with consumer hardware.

@Fmstrat @veeesix The second, could you do raid across specific platters - yes and no. The drive firmware specifically hides the details of the underlying platter layout. But if you targeted a specific model, you could probably hack something together that would do raid across the platters. But given the answer to the first question, why would you?

@Fmstrat @veeesix Since there’s two very diffrent questions there… The first, “where do the failures happen?”: anywhere. It could be the controller dying (in which case the platters themselves are fine if you replace the board, but otherwise the whole thing is toast). It could be the head breaking. It could be issues with a specific platter. It could be something that affects _all_ the platters (like dust getting inside the sealed area). So basically, it very much depends.

@Zorque I’m saying that 14TB will only fit 280 (or more likely, less) of those ultra-hq movies, so 140TB (or, in the lead up to that, 100TB, since they’re talking about 5+ years or more before they even get close to 140TB) is reasonable for a 1,000-2,000 movie collection. Obviously I’m being loose with numbers, but the fact that one single movie can consume almost 80GB… well, you can start to understand consumer demand for 100+TB drives.

@Korkki @just_another_person I see 4k HDR blue ray movie rips these days on the order of 50GB (edit: eg, Eddington.2025.MULTi.VFF.2160p.DV.HDR.BluRay.REMUX.HEVC-[BATGirl]: 77.73G).

Which is too rich for my blood (I’m still watching on 1080p screens over here), but for someone with the right kind of home theater… that’s only ~280 movies on a 14TB drive. Lots of movie collections, even in the olden days of physical VHS and DVDs, span 1,000+ movies.

@SmoothLiquidation @Telorand They also claim up to 8x speed improvements with HAMR. Obviously that remains to be seen, but if they could roughly match capacity improvements, that would keep restriping in the same ballpark.

@dan @rimu Yep. For us, it was cheaper to use the VPS storage than S3 (at the time I took it over, in 2018). Amusingly, it was set up to use S3 for images but then mounted locally and served through the VPS’s web server, making it all painfully slow (the proper way would be to have the site provide links directly to the S3). By switching it to local storage, I cut hosting costs in half and also sped up the site by orders of magnitude.

@dan @goldensw The vast majority of traffic is going to be the first day or week that a new article is published, social media or whatever driving lots of traffic to that same article over and over. Loading the php interpreter each time, even if it’s reading cached data, *will* make the site fall over. Static files will not.

Though nowdays there’s stupid AI bots doing pathological stuff, so that may become an issue as well that requires some further adjustments.

@dan @goldensw Yes, this. I did almost exactly what you did (taking over maintenance of an older wordpress site used by a local news org), and it was in rough shape. The config is a bit crotchety (like most things wordpress these days), but we’re using WP Fastest Cache to create static html pages and a custom nginx configuration to read directly off those static pages (without hitting the php interpreter) for non-logged-in users. Basically try_files /…/cache/$uri, which falls back to php.

@illusionist At least with the demo that I’m looking at with the script to download, it gives both flatpak AND apt install commands, giving the user a choice. Maybe I’m looking at the wrong thing though?

@illusionist @henkster Firefox from apt and firefox from flatpak are not equivalent. The former goes through an extra process to remove non-free components.

@Scrollone @BrilliantantTurd4361 Because it used to be a lot faster than postgresql for smaller sites. MyISAM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyISAM) was super lightweight, at the expense of the occasional corrupt database (oops).

I don’t know how many new people are coming to PHP these days (as opposed to javascript/python/rust/etc), but certainly the older PHP coders grew up using mysql.

@h333d @Holytimes Oh no, I write the same way! I can’t wait to be accused of being an AI the next time I publish something. 😂

@rimu @Dust0741 Also, even if openwrt stops supporting it… If you have a router or firewall or something in front of your access point, then running an old version of openwrt isn’t really that much of a risk if we’re talking about residential wifi w/out a lot of coverage.

And that’s assuming you’d want to stick with a model that openwrt has dropped support for. If they do drop support in a few years, you could buy a newer (better supported) older model again for $40.

@Vejeta Hi! Chromium maintainer here, just wanted to say that I appreciate the write-up (and the associated bug report followup). I have some paid work that will involve dealing with qtwebengine’s embedded chromium - I’m hoping to address both QT and CEF at the same time. Currently focused elsewhere, but I’m thinking in a few months.

@Coolcoder360 @lemming741 seafile has a fuse extension, at least: https://manual.seafile.com/latest/extension/fuse/

That said, I switched from seafile to syncthing and never looked back. Turns out I didn’t really need the web interface.

@rook To be fair, that’s an extremely zen attitude ChatGPT has - “Focus on the 5 healthy SAS drives.” Therapy goals! 😏

@tburkhol @rook Protip for Pi4B TV usage: if your TV has a USB port, you might be able to power the Pi from it. I turn the TV on and my 4B gets power from it, boots up, and starts Kodi (I’m using libreelec) automatically. When I turn the TV off, the TV hardware stays powered for like 5 mins before going into a low power mode which kills power to the Pi.

@communism @Natanox I’d argue the client itself has a fair bit of jank, though. Like, the background bubble color around text is too dark, it makes it look really ugly and dated. Pinned messages in a channel, when displayed at the top, literally overwrite each other. You’ll just have garbled/overlapping text.

Neochat looks much better out of the box (but neochat is also buggy w/ e2ee, dropping encryption keys randomly).

@tofu @Deceptichum I haven’t had problem with concrete walls, but the walls with metal lathe (& plaster) really do a number on wifi and cell signal. I’m guessing different kinds of metal lathe probably makes a difference, too; my prior house literally had chicken wire in the ceilings, my current house has more like a metal sheet with smaller holes punched out.