That’s a trade-off between cloud storage vs manual off site storage. You could do a monthly backup to a HDD and then save that at a safe deposit box, like the old days. Except replace HDD with tape.

Optionally you and a friend could trade HDDs, and you’d only have to spend gas money or postage.

Either way you’re going to have some sort of regular cost.

Oh matey. I literally just went through this and debated putting together a blog post or similar.

I’m not at my computer so I’m typing this from my phone.

The TL;DR: you need to decide whether you’ll pay for the security by paying for restore upfront, or when you need it.

Since I yarr most of if not all my content, I did not worry about backing up my TV shows or movies. I take a directory listing of my jellyfin and back that up weekly. Music is small enough that I do back this up.

Cloud cost is abstract and hard to compare apples to apples. But the biggest thing you’ll need to decide is how likely will you need to do a cloud restore. The more robust your on-prem backups the less likely you’ll need them so I personally went with AWS S3 using rclone. Glacier cold storage is super cheap and for my needs I’m paying roughly $2-3 a month. The catch is if I need a restore, I’ll have to pay for the S3 retrieval and then the egress which can be roughly $60 one time.

For companies like Backblaze, you pay roughly $60 annual for about 2TB of hot storage, which includes egress 3 times.

I prefer to save the $40 difference year over year, and instead put that in a budget for a break-glass situation.

In terms of hardware, some people recommend buying different brands with the same storage size. Others recommend spacing out your hard drive purchases so that they don’t all fail at the same time. I prefer the latter.

Hope that points you in the right direction

I’m curious about codeberg. It looks like they have a CI/CD pipeline. How does it compare to GitHub actions?

Here’s the thing very few liberals will understand: Republicans do this performative dance to waste government money and remove things like EV chargers and solar panels because, and I cannot emphasize this enough…

it appeases and even excites their base.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

Doing shit like this shows their base that their team is in charge. That’s it. They could have let them stay in and their base wouldn’t have been the wiser. But doing it shows them that their team won.

Liberals don’t have a similar signal. Hell, I didn’t even know the GSA installed them. Not only that but liberals don’t care as much to “win” like this.

We just want to survive whereas conservatives want to oppress.

That’s the difference.

Yeah I have one of these infrared thermometers. The tolerance is within 1°C. They aren’t designed for precision but for “is this thing at a temperature that I expect”.

I respond to most emails that clearly define a problem and clearly define what I must do.

If the email is missing one of those, I’ll reach out via slack and ask.

If the email is missing both, I have a form reply asking them to create a ticket.

“The Internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it.”

Does Amazon have permission to change what’s in your book though?

Copyright prevents them from making derivative works and if they change your text without your permission, that’s a clear copyright violation.

I don’t know how licensing deals work with Amazon but I’m guessing if they are doing this en mass, there is probably some provision in their contract.

STOP GOING TO REDDIT!

Jesus fucking Christ…

I see this as “if I’m going to get the death penalty anyway, might as well take out as many of them as I can.”

Headline tomorrow: Trump orders FCC to settle case against himself for $420 trillion dollars

She needs to start an OnlyGrans

The sad state of our laws are such that they could set up a S-Corp or C-Corp and act in official capacity of that corporation literally get away with murder.

I’ve lost count the number of times I’ve taken on a project because something was annoying me.

Blocking NSFW content helps with getting rid of OF creators. I have a separate lemmynsfw.com account that I rarely use these days to look at amateur content.

Didn’t the MAGA insurrection use Signal to coordinate their efforts?

Wait wait…yes, follow dear leader to an app that keeps your history and doesn’t encrypt at rest. You have nothing to hide and nothing to fear.

I wasn’t the mod that locked your previous thread but I’m locking this one.

You are being abrasive and this post itself is off topic.

Locking because of Rule 4.

The part that sucks in all of this: the children who died didn’t choose to not get the vaccine. Their parents did.

Fun fact about recipes: they are not copyrightable.

So you can’t “pirate” them unless they put them behind a paywall, and even then you can download and reshare them.

I absolutely hate that Basics with Babish put his recipes behind a paywall.

I personally see three big issues with getting new users to Lemmy use and stat on Lemmy:

• knowing about it: It is a matter of time before Reddit bans linking to Lemmy. Either by outright preventing their discussion via shadow deletes or full deletes. join-lemmy.org would be well served by purchasing ads on Google and on Bing
• join-lemmy ux needs to be improved: this goes to your point and I fully agree that there needs to be a better onboarding experience. I am a fairly technical guy and even I had trouble understanding the major concepts behind Lemmy. Many of these concepts aren’t terribly important to a new user though. At least at first.
• more and better content: this is fortunately getting better but we’re not there yet