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you’re comment, ma’am, it begs the question…

you are comment

We are all comment on this blessed day

The dumb “on battery” cable, what a joke that was

LOL actual serial

I’ve replaced the battery in that sucker more than a few times

Edit: its an old HP powerwise for the record, I think its 2 pins for serial, 6 for contact closure.

I want to start by saying I am not suggesting you use any of the products these companies offer, but I’m linking to the standard strategy - 3-2-1.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/

https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/backup-rule/

https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatabackup/definition/3-2-1-Backup-Strategy

• 3 copies (original and two backups)
• 2 forms of media
• 1 copy off site.

For me, I have two boxes for NAS. One is the prod, one is the backup of anything I can’t replace (or can’t replace easily). I have another at the home of a member of my family, which gets a weekly diff. I also backup an encrypted set to cloud storage I got some time ago. So I actually have 4 sets of data (1 prod + 3 backups), two off-site locations. The media portion is treated differently today - it used to be tape, DVD backups, whatever, but today I consider different devices and cloud storage to fit that bill. In which case I have an abundance of forms of storage media

Mine goes a slight bit past what’s needed for 3-2-1 which is appropriate for me. I consider 3-2-1 the minimum for any data considered critical or irreplaceable.

For me, that includes home movies, family photos, financial records, etc. It does not include my rips of my DVD collection. It does include config files and backups of services I run though.

The right backup strategy depends on your own concern about data. If I lost the photos/videos of my kids, I’d be devastated. If I lost the rips of VHS tapes my dad recorded, I’d be devastated.

If I lost the iso for a random esoteric piece of hardware that has its drivers, I’d be disappointed but its not a big deal.

Prioritize your data. Absolutely critical, important, preferred to keep, annoying but replaceable, and who cares I’ll just download it again if I have to.

Once you know how much you need to store for each of those, add a bit to plan ahead, and see what backup strategy fits as you move down the priority list, and go from there.

Oh it’d be a great learning exercise for sure, though for that I’d rather see someone read spec and put it into practice. Though that’d be more of a UPS than a USB exercise I guess.

They didnt think to look anything up.

Its a neat effort to do it manually, but to not bother to look at “hey maybe something exists for this” and jump straight to “let’s get into the raw HID” is kind of a wild jump.

I know of at least two states marked as a no where its perfectly legal as long as there is a reasonable expectation that its private (appropriate fencing or shrubbery for example).

Not personal experience, but because a lawyer friend was explaining reasonable expectations of privacy for a completely unrelated context (filming and photography in public).

Sorry, nothing fun.

That is a terrible map.

It seems to be quite wrong.

I still have a 9 pin serial UPS! Its hooked in a portable rack (dont ask) at my office. Mostly because nitwits kept hitting the buttons on what amounts to an expensive IP controllable surge strip, and turning off devices on me. So now it detects and sends me a message so I can turn outlets back on.

But hey, it still sees use!

I forgot how weird that video was.

Its a shame they never had anything else hit, the poetry night style set to music was really unique. At least they kept making music for years and years.

I’m a bit surprised they didnt know what that USB port was for, its pretty standard. Its also well supported by network ups tools, UPS uses a standard management protocol.

I’m more concerned with the current ownership.

Truly a shame, there are a few really talented and knowledgeable folks I knew at RH are no longer there. Even recently there was an RTO push(to drive people away) about a month ago, and then a round of layoffs just a few days ago.

IBM has an unfortunate history with acquisitions, and I fear RH will be just another footnote in a series of IBM mergers and acquisitions.

There is a whole lot to jellyfin that mpv doesnt cover.

I’m glad youre enjoying the setup, but its hardly a replacement for jellyfin in the vast majority of cases.

gcompris.

Covers:

• keyboard, mouse, and (if appicable) touchscreen use
• geography
• science
• reading
• math
• memory

The challenge sets itself. I recommend starting there - my kids love it.

with DKMS

Exactly what I was going to suggest here. This is the way to deal with it (and “it” is usually pain in the ass WiFi)

Literally just got myself a “new” laptop about 25 minutes ago.

Thanks Microsoft!

It definitely is, especially if you get a cluster going. FWIW, my media is all on a synology NAS (well technically two, but one is a backup) that I got used through work, so your setup isn’t the wrong approach (imo) by any stretch.

What it comes down to in the connection is how you look at it - with a VM, its a full fledged system, all by its lonesome, that just happens to live inside another computer. A container though is an extension of that host, so think of it less like a VM and more like resource sharing, and you’ll start to see where the different approaches have different advantages.

For example, I have transcode nodes running on my proxmox cluster. If I had JF as a VM, I’d need another GPU to do that - but since its a container for both JF and my transcode node, they get to share that resource happily. Whats the right answer is always going to depend on individual needs though.

And glad I could be of some help!

Oh well aware, just making a joke since you mostly see people comment that they run arch or bazzite or nix or whatever while around and about on here. The reality is just as you say, there are many, many, many folks on Debian stable.

Also may be good for c/jellyfin, but what I’d see if you could do is leverage a backup tool. Export and download, then import, all from the web. I know there is a built in backup function, and I recall a few plugins as well that handled backups.

Seems to me that might be the most straightforward method - but again, probably better with a more jellyfin focused comm for that. I have moved that LXC around between a bunch of machines at this point, so snapshots and backups via proxmox backup server are all I need.