Thanks for the update

I’ve used Fork for so long I forget it’s a separate app

Thing is, even using this new app it’s still ST underneath, using their Discovery servers. That’s as big an issue as anything.

To your point, the developer of an iOS Syncthing client (Möbius) has financially support ST development for at least 3 years that I know of. I don’t know how much, but they use it for their own clients, so it’s important to them.

My only concern would be the Discovery servers.

I have no intent to upgrade from my current version (1.27.9) as it’s been fine for years now.

It works, does what I need. There was an update a few months ago, but it offers nothing I need, and would only cause me a ton of work and re-testing to ensure it works as it currently does.

Apps don’t need continuous updating if they work.

I’d tell some trusted friends too. Quietly. In person.

Yea, no, I wouldn’t recommend searching for this unicorn.

Scheduled sex with someone who’s indifferent to it?

Do you want scheduled emotional closeness with someone who isn’t into it?

Why are you asking this question? It sounds more like a rant.

I’m sure you know moderation is neither instantaneous nor perfect. So that makes this a rant instead if a genuine question.

I have an ancient Drobo.

Believe it or not, it’s only sound is the fan, which I can’t hear even when it’s on.

SSD will still generate heat, so will need a fan.

Yea, a tiger… Yea

Who cares about looking stupid. Just done hat you gotta do.

Happened to a friend if mine.

Once it went to court his lawyer made the cop look like a tool.

Still cost him a bunch, just not an actual DUI.

Also had cops arrest a friend who was a passenger in a car, and tried to give him a DUI, too. The judge blasted that cop pretty bad.

I think the nerd/tinker space today is stuff like self-hosting, local storage, return from cloud.

Apps that don’t phone home to someone else’s server, keeping your contacts, calendar, shopping list, etc on your own stuff.

We could, if someone cared to put in the effort to make that happen.

Be that “someone” .

Come on baby…

Light. My. Fire.

HP has been up and down.

Years ago they were great, then they were shit, then they were good again for a short while.

I wouldn’t touch 'em today, but I’m a laptop snob and only go for the pro lines in Dell or Lenovo anymore. I have friends who spec systems for companies, and those have the least issues and are more maintainable than others.

Take apart some laptops, and you’ll come to appreciate the pro lines from Dell and Lenovo. I inherited an HP laptop, it was challenging to open without breaking stuff, and little is replaceable - the opposite of my Dell and Lenovos.

486sx…man,brinfing back some memories

I’d look at getting a used SFF (Small Form Factor) desktop for a LOT less than that Ugreen. I paid less than $50 for mine - at that price I can run a second one when I’m ready.

I’m currently running an old Dell SFF as my server, I’ve had Proxmox on it with 5 drives internally (2.5") with the OS on the NVME.

Initially it had 4GB of ram and ran Proxmox with ZFS just fine (and those drives were various ages and sizes).

It idles at 18w, not much more than the 12w my Pi Zero W idled at, but way more powerful and capable.

One drive failure means an array is degraded until resilvering finishes (unless you have hot spare, at least then the array isn’t degraded and silvering a new drive isn’t as risky).

Resilvering is an intensive process that can push other drives to fail.

I have a ZFS system that takes the better part if a day (24 hours) to resilver a 4TB drive in an 8TB five-drive array (single parity) that’s about 70% full. When uts resilvering I have to be confident my other data stores don’t fail (I have the data locally on 2 other drives and a cloud backup).

“Two in RAID” only means 2 when the arrays on on different systems and the replication isn’t instant. Otherwise it only protects against hardware failures and not against you fucking up (ask me how I know…).

If the arrays are on 2 separate systems in the same place, they’ll protect against independent hardware failures without a common cause (a drive dies, etc), but not against common threats like fire or electrical spikes.

Also, how long does it take to return one of those systems to fully functioning with all the data of the other? This is a risk all of us seem to overlook at times.

If you’re storing “critical data”, you want to look at redundancy (ie backup) and not expecting a single store to not have issues. Drives will fail, and if they fail in a RAID the entire store is at risk until the array is restored. If you don’t have hot spares it’s at even more risk while it’s rebuilding. ZFS is less sensitive to this than traditional RAID, but even it can’t magically restore data from thin air.

The typical recommendation for backup is 3-2-1 or a variation: 3 backups on 2 types of media (local/remote/cloud suffices) at least 1 off-site..

The link above discusses the 3-2-1-1-0 which I think is good to understand as 0 refers to verified backups. Unverified backups are no backups at all. It’s not unusual in the SMB space to do a test restore of a percentage of files monthly (Enterprise has entire teams and automation around testing).