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  • Why do you need the files in your local?
    Is your network that slow?

    I’ve heard of multiple content creators which have their video files in their NAS to share between their editors, and they work directly from the NAS.
    Could you do the same? You’ll be working with music, so the network traffic will be lower than with video.

    If you do this you just need a way to mount the external directory, either with rclone or with sshfs.


    The disks on my NAS go to sleep after 10 minutes idle time and if possible I would prefer not waking them up all the time

    I think this is a good strategy to not put additional stress in your drives (as a non-expert of NAS), but I’ve read the actual wear and tear of the drives is mostly during this process of spinning up and down. That’s why NAS drives should be kept spinning all the time.
    And drives specifically built for NAS setups are designed with this in mind.



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    I use rclone and duplicati depending on the needs of the backup.

    For long term I use duplicati, it has a GUI and you can upload it to several places (mines are spread between e2 and drive).
    You configure the backend, password for encryption, schedule, and version retention.

    rclone, with the crypt submodule, you use it to mount your backups as am external drive, so you need to manually handle the actual copy of the data into it, plus versioning and retention.



  • I’ve only played P5 and currently P5R.
    The RPG part is amazing, the story, combat, dungeon crawling, interactions, etc, and all the other comments people had already made.

    My only con for it would be the strictness of the schedule to do the story. Yeah, it’s also an interesting part of the game which differs from other RPGs, but it’s frustrating you might permanently lose something because you planned it a bit off or selected the wrong dialog option with a confidant so you don’t have enough points which makes you have to spend an extra day with them to increase their rank.
    Either you follow a guide or you accept the idea of missing some parts of the history.

    And even then with a guide I think I might as well not experience everything since I won’t go to visit some of the places to hang out with confidants, only the main ranks and that’s it.

    Also, you can’t focus on finishing a confidant because I think all of them have some requirement, or they are not available that day, so you need to do other stuff.
    For example, Yoshida is only available Sundays, Kawakami IIRC is also only the last days of the week, but not weekends and only during the evening.

    But I plan to also play P3 and P4 since the stories are so good.


    My recommendation for the next post would be series of Monster Hunter, Paper Mario, or Kingdom Rush.






  • I can’t imagine this flow working with any DB without an UI to manage it.
    How are you going to store all that in an easy yet flexible way to handle all with SQL?

    A table for notes?
    What fields would it have? Probably just a text field.
    Creating it is simple: insert “initial note”… How are you going to update it? A simple update to the ID won’t work since you’ll be replacing all the content, you’d need to query the note, copy it to a text editor and then copy it back to a query (don’t forget to escape it).
    Then probably you want to know which is your oldest note, so you need to include created_at and updated_at fields.
    Maybe a title per note is a nice addition, so a new field to add title.

    What about the todo lists? Will they be stored in the same notes table?
    If so, then the same problem, how are you going to update them? Include new items, mark items as done, remove them, reorder them.
    Maybe a dedicated table, well, two tables, list metadata and list items.
    In metadata almost the same fields as notes, but description instead of text. The list items will have status and text.

    Maybe you can reuse the todo tables for your book list and links/articles to read.

    so that I can script its commands to create simpler abstractions, rather than writing out the full queries every time.

    This already exists, several note taking apps which wrap around either the filesystem or a DB so you only have to worry about writing your ideas into them.
    I’d suggest to not reinvent the wheel unless nothing satisfies you.

    What are the pros of using a DB directly for your use case?
    What are the cons of using a note taking app which will provide a text editor?

    If you really really want to use a DB maybe look into https://github.com/zadam/trilium
    It uses sqlite to store the notes, so maybe you can check the code and get an idea if it’s complicated or not for you to manually replicate all of that.
    If not, I’d also recommend obsidian, it stores the notes in md files, so you can open them with any software you want and they’ll have a standard syntax.



  • I also like local only with a similar set up as yours, rsync to and HDD and to an SSD.
    But I also would recommend you to follow that suggestion, you need to have an external backup managed by someone else (encrypted, of course) so you can have options if anything happens to everything in your local.
    It’s up to you how much you’re willing to pay to be sure to be able to retrieve your data.

    I’m using iDrive e2, it says it has a limited offer, but it’s been there for over a year.

    Im basically paying $1.25 for 2TB per month (it’s charged at once for 24 months) https://www.idrive.com/s3-storage-e2/pricing


  • Found that also myself trying to do the same thing haha. I did the same process as OP, gparted took 2.5 hours in my 1TB HDD to create a new partition, then copying the data from old to new partition was painfully slow, so I went to copy it to another dive and into the new partition.
    Afterwards I deleted the old partition and grew the new one, which took a bit more than 1.5 hours.

    If I had the space I would have copied all the data out of the drive, formatted it and then copied back into. It would have been quicker.








  • You can use GPSLogger to record it in local or send it to whatever service you want.
    If you’re into selfhosting you can use traccar which is focused into fleet management so it’s easy to get reports on the trips made.

    As for your second point, I wouldn’t trust the GPS for this, it can say you weren’t moving since it only checks every so often to record the data, or maybe it says you actually were speeding because the two points it used to calculate the data weren’t the actual points you were at that time.
    A dashcam would be better suited for this. I’m not sure how they work, but most probably they can be connected to read data from your car which would be more trust worthy to whoever might decide if you were actually speeding.








  • I resorted to buy a new one with android tv, so now I just have tailscale installed in it and can directly play jellyfin.

    The issue is the chromecast can’t resolve back to the tailnet with subrouting. Probably connecting the chromecast to a network which resolves the connections for it could work, but I don’t know how to do that or if it’s actually possible.