This. Some people don’t realise how ridiculously easy it is to change a lock when you can open the door with a key.

1. Put the working key into the lock

2. Undo this screw

3. Turn the key slightly back and forth whilst pulling the cylinder out until it starts to come out. Then just pull it all out.

4. Mark which side was front and back

5. Measure from the middle locking mechanism of the cylinder to the ends.

6. Find a lock with the same lengths. It’ll be like 60/40 (100mm total length).

6b. Optional: get one with a fixed turnkey on the inside.

7. Replace lock by reverse.

I hear you. I worked for an msp where some customers would refuse to invest in backup solutions and we either declined to renew their contract or they suffered an event and we were then setting up backups.

I was in the middle of a migration from OVH to Hetzner. I knew I had good backups at home so the plan was to blow away OVH and restore from backup to Hetzner. This was the mistake.

Mid migration I get an alert from the raid system that a drive has failed and had been marked as offline. I had a spare disk ready, as I planned for this type of event. So I swapped the disk. Mistake number 2.

I pulled the wrong disk. The Adaptec card shit a brick, kicked the whole array out. Couldn’t bring it back together. I was too poor to afford recovery. This was my lesson.

Now I only use ZFS or MDRAID, and have multiple copies of data at all times.

I’m lucky enough to run a business that needs a datacenter presence. So most my home-lab (including Lemmy) is actually hosted on a Dell PowerEdge R740xd in the DC. I can then use the small rack I have at home as off-site backups and some local services.

I treat the entirety of /var/lib/docker as expendable. When creating containers, I make sure any persistent data is mounted from a directory made just to host the persistent data. It means docker compose down --rmi all --volumes isn’t destructive.

When a container needs a database, I make sure to add an extra read-only user. And all databases have their container and persistent volume directory named so scripts can identify them.

The backup strategy is then to backup all non-database persistent directories and dump all SQL databases, including permissions and user accounts. This gets run 4 times a day and the backup target is an NFS share elsewhere.

This is on top of daily backuppc backups of critical folders, automated Proxmox snapshots for docker hosts every 20 minutes, daily VM backups via Proxmox Backup Server and replication to another PBS at home.

I also try and use S3 where possible (seafile and lemmy are the 2 main uses) which is hosted in a container on a Synology RS2423RP+. Synology HyperBackup then performs a backup overnight to the Synology RS822+ I have at home.

Years ago I fucked up, didn’t have backups, and lost all the photos of my sons early years. Backups are super important.

Its embassy in Madrid accused him of “demonizing” Israel, saying Spain was “on the wrong side of history.”

Israel are confused.

Hmm. For me social media is where end users create the media. So Reddit, Lemmy, YouTube all fit this.

1% is still 170 million.

I just got a new rig last week. I got the 9800x3d instead of the 9950x3d as it is exclusively for gaming. Also got the DH15 G2. Really happy with it and it’s so quiet!

That was a good read, thank you

Sorry, you’re right. The point I was trying to clumsily make is that It didn’t have the effect that the RAF were aiming for. Which was to break morale and more importantly, stem the civilian population production of war. If anything, production increased, despite the terror.

I’m incredibly ignorant on WW2, and in general knowledge, being a nerd and all, my brain is full of Linux. However I have recently been watching the World War in Color series. I’ve been watching several other similar series and I’m totally hooked now.

The run-up to WW2 and current US affairs look strikingly similar. I look at the TV, then my phone, then back at the TV and “it’s the same picture”.

The British turned entire cities into flame tornados during ww2, and it galvanised the Germans rather than deter them.

We have backyard chickens. The huge one was a double yoker and delicious 😋

But the vast majority of viruses focus on end users.

I think it was missing an “/s”

If the trend continues then maybe the hacker community will start focusing on Linux. Can you imagine “I don’t need a virus scanner, I use Windows, the under dog OS”

I do

I bet you’re real fun at parties.

God damn it. I chose minio for my S3 implementation. I wonder if there is a migration path to garage…

I find this to be a very cultural thing as to whether it’s acceptable or not. Where I live cats roam the streets, if an American visited here they would be horrified.

Holy shit this is dark.

saves to phone

Thank you I get it!