Really appreciate this guide with the different tiers of convenience. Really gets to the heart of the issue!

Always happy to see these in the swarms of House Sparrows we get!

As far as I’m aware, Calibre-Web serves are web front-end for calibre. I think you might have to install plugins manually on the desktop version, but it should be active when importing a book over the Calibre-web, especially DeDRM.

Would be interesting to document and post to the various selfhosting communities.

It’s amazing how quickly pond critters can populate the environment in the middle of an urban environment.

Glad to see there’s no potential conflict of interest. As messed up as academia is, I still prefer that to whatever bs this is.

Nice, I thought it was a Hermit Thrush but then saw you were across the pond!

Beautiful!!

If you want to stop fossil fuel driven production of green house gases, stop traveling, reduce energy use, AND STOP USING PLASTIC. Good luck on that cabin in the woods. We’re addicted and withdrawal isn’t going to happen willingly. Hang on for the worst hangover in history.

I think humans will survive in some fashion, but I think it’s guaranteed that the super-rich with their New Zealand and Hawaii compounds will still be on top. Imagine Trump as Immortan Joe in Mad Max.

btrfs or zfs send/receive. Harder to do if already established, but by far the most elegant, especially with atomic snapshots to allow versioning without duplicate data.

Haha, still counts. Is this close to the Trader Joe’s nearish the Presidio?

You can’t trust any company.

https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Windows-Support-Bluetooh-AIOEXPC/dp/B08G1CCWN5?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&gQT=1

I wonder how well it supports Debian, etc.

Just like they did after the Hawaii fires.

I wouldn’t think so. 5400 rpm drives might last longer if we’re specifically thinking about mechanical wear. My main takeaway is that WDC has the best. I would use the largest number available which is the final chart which you also point out. One thing which others have also pointed out that there is no metadata included with these results. For example the location of different drives, i.e. rack and server-room specific data. These would control for temperature, vibration and other potential confounders. Also likely that as new servers are brought online, different SKUs are being bought in groups, i.e. all 10 TB Seagate Ironwolf. I don’t know why they haven’t tried to use linear or simple machine learning models to try to provide some explanatory information to this data, but nevertheless I am deeply appreciative that this data is available at all.

Backblaze reports HDD reliability data on their blog. Never rely on anecdata!

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2024/

Ah, thank you for explaining. I understand where you’re coming from. Nevertheless, from the point of a view a small NAS, RAIDZ1 is much more space and cost efficient so I think there is room for “pets” in the small homelab or NAS.

That’s really interesting! Thank you for sharing that with me!

Same could have been said of the 70s, and the 00’s. I guess every 20 years or so we get significant instability. But I guess that wouldn’t make a sexy headline for media man Ezra Klein.