All our phones use Syncthing to keep the entire phone synced to home.

Sync jobs for photos runs on any data connection, and on battery - other jobs run while charging, or only on wifi.

Be sure to use Syncthing-Fork, it moves these sync options into each folder pair/job.

For the home server, get a mini PC - they’re tiny, sip power like Pi, and provide a lot more flexibility.

Straws are about convenience to keep the kid in (preventing spills) and still being able to drink.

LL Bean sells them. Slipper socks.

Or land

Nope

Generally criminal is much harder to win than civil.

But consulting a lawyer is the best approach

Fuck video tutorials.

Write it down you lazy fucks.

Edit: There are things for which video is good - stuff that really requires the visual. Which is about 10% of stuff.

Borax has borax in it (sodium borate). Washing soda has washing soda in it (sodium carbonate).

Both essentially alter the pH of the water.

The internet can answer pretty much all your questions about either one, dozens and dozens of articles have been written about using both.

Or using point-to-point microwave towers

Well, since cell phones use towers that define a coverage area “cell” and don’t use satellites for comm, no satellites would be affected.

Nah, scientists don’t bother with accounting for variability or changes.

🤦🏼

And pretty meaningless.

Any study will specify the specific population used in the study, the variability of that population, and how that variability was adjusted for.

As you said, RAID gives you a single unified storage pool from independent drives.

It also gives you some fail over if using RAID 6 with dual drive redundancy and hot fail over (which any modern RAID system has).

You can then divvy up the storage however you want. Single big drive with folders and file-system permissions, or split the pool into multiple logical drives, etc.

The world is your oyster.

For my needs I have a single big drive with folders, but only a single user on the RAID box has write permissions - and that’s an account from my file server.

The file server then handles shares, permissions, user names, etc, so I have a single point of user management and file access. Which isn’t really much different than what businesses typically do: storage management is separate from user/file management.

Lots of RAID systems today support LDAP, so you could theoretically manage user access on the RAID box, but I find that cumbersome, and prefer having a file server.

Waistline kind of works like that.

And I think there are a few self-hostable solutions out there.

Sadly that’s a human problem that technology is hard-pressed to solve (if not impossible).

I download the podcasts I want to listen to, then host my own RSS so I can manage it better long-term.

HIPAA is the opposite of privacy anyway - it’s specifically about enabling sharing of data 🤦🏼.

And it was sold as a privacy tool. Lying cocksuckers.

I dunno, is there an effort to scrap bots for their code?

Setting up is the easy part.

Maintenance is where you spend time, money, effort.

No backup with PiHole?

PiHole can run redundant if you want. Does Technitium do this differently? Or more easily?