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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I try to be in the habit of making a full image onto a demonstrably working spare card every couple weeks.

    That’s a whole lot of writing to an sd card, wearing it out. It may fail by the time you want to read it. You also destroy each previous backup by creating a new one.

    Each of my rpis backup to my main server nightly using dd via ssh. The server then keeps historical backups of those .img files via Borg so I can pull any version from any day of the last year or so.







  • I use Emby instead of Plex or Jellyfin; mostly because it has an Xbox client, and I’ve already got a lifetime licence. One of my most active users only watches via Xbox.

    Really don’t like Plexs centralised user system or the overall direction they’ve been headed for years, so I moved away from that long ago (8+ years ago at least). Jellyfin wasn’t up to par at the time (though they’ve made leaps and bounds of progress in that time), and Emby has always supported more types of devices\clients. Their device limit (the client count limit with premeir) has never come into play for me, but I know there are larger user bases out there where that is a problem.

    Embys development is extremely slow though, taking YEARS to implement simple features or even address major concerns. Plus their support sucks without the community stepping in and providing it on behalf of the staff. Luke (the main dev) is better at copy+pasting candid responses than he is at actually interacting with human beings.



  • They definitely do; while interesting, unfortunately a good chunk of that video was basically an advertisement full of half truths. It’s also over 7 years old.

    ‘These breakdown over time, but it’s perfectly fine, you could take a bite out of these chews one on camera’ … Sure buddy.


    You could replace a good chunk of those with a floating barge type thing made of solar panels though, keeping the sun off of the water and collecting the energy.

    You’ll still need something dynamic around the edges, to deal with the rise\fall of the water changing the shoreline, but there’s lots of room in the center.