I run a setup very similar for many years. Upgraded progressively from 2x120GB to 4x4Tb, from mechanicals to sdds.

I can say don’t cheap out on the usb enclosures, the more you pay the better it is. I purchased a 4 bay JBOD usb3 box with a fan (150€+ nowadays) and that is the only enclosure that really worked out and still works (but retired) today. All single disk enclosures will fail sooner or later depending on how cheap they are, just take that onto consideration.

The setup itself is pretty good and stable, I would suggest standard Linux MDRaid 1, and on top of that something simple like ext4. I wouldn’t put anything that adds to the disk workloads like zfs, but maybe I am wrong.

Speed wise, I was able to stream movies without any hiccups, and that’s plenty I think.

Do not cheap out on the enclosures. Cheap ones will last 1 month, I don’t kid you.

And keep them cool… Fan… Air circulation… USB controllers will be killed faster than mechanical disks by heat. And 24/7 will generate heat… Those enclosures are not built for that…

Again, it’s pretty doable and I did it for almost 2 decades. DONT BE CHEAP ON ENCLOSURES (did I say so already?) And you should be fine.

Does it means you use only FreeBSD and dumbphones?

If you don’t want to use postgresql for some obscure reason use MariaDB real open source MySQL drop in replacement.

Yes I fully agree…

My areas weather is slowing improving a lot. Much drier and much less humidity is good… Not for agricultural and tourism (skying) but for actualiving here yes.

Granted, I had to install AC for that time in the summer (2 days 7 years ago, 2 weeks nowdays). And winters are still cold… But being overall much drier I love it more.

So is that a good thing? Nope. But you need to adapt I guess, not much hope in us fixing it.

This.

That’s why temping obscurity for security is not a good idea. Doesn’t take much to be “safe”, at least reasonably safe. But that not much its good practice to be done :)

Not really here… You need to be a 1000km further north, maybe 1500km. And we have below freezing winters usually…

Northern Italy here. We are having the coldest winter in 10 years. At my house, I live I the countryside, we had - 8°C for quite a few days this week, and also in November a streak of unusual cold.

While I can feel the global warming, and I think climate change is a reality, this doesn’t mean that we won’t have anymore frozen lakes…

Maybe less, indeed, and I wouldn’t invest in a frozen lake fishing enterprise (nor skying in the Alps for that matter), but don’t consider a locally warm season as the last good winter is gone forever… :)

Well, I understand you.

Neither do I.

Last time I was in a church for a religious function was literally years ago…

So why would I care for somebody who shoot during a mass?

(/s if not obvious)

My use case is much simpler. I access via RDP client and that’s all, not needing multi monitor

Plasma and Gentoo user here.

The transition has been so uneventful and simple that I didn’t even noticed. I run some 15 desktops with different mixed hardware setups and use VNC / RDP sometimes too.

One day I started noticing on some desktops Wayland was now in use, by chance. Then I started taking notice.

I can say the ones moved to Wayland are smoother, but might be aneddotical. Beside that, cannot care less about X11 or Wayland, they both work just fine for all my use cases.

For the sake of future, welcome Wayland!

/smallrant Sorry for X11, have to say I have been in the business since kernel version 2 and I DO NOT miss losing X11, its a bunch of half assed half baked spaghetti tech that has done its own time and would not have kept up with life. /rantover.

My server has 48gb ram and in top Lemmy doesn’t appear even in the 0.1% memory usage.

Disk space 10gb, CPU/ram not noticeable on my server (lots of other services using more than Lemmy).

I think it’s been up about one year. One user but I subscribe to all communities I find remotely interesting.

Yeah, good idea… After all, who needs copy and paste at all? Better remove it at the root…

/ssssssss

Running “my” own single user instance here.

Great! Love it! The whole idea.

Agree on the handpicking yes. Nothing bad in reposting content, but mass posting just drowns communities and doesn’t generate engagement.

No thank you. Just leeching content from reddit will never get Lemmy anywhere.

I blocked all content reposted from Lemmy (there was an instance dedicated to that iirc).

First of all, posts without comments are pointless. Interaction and comments is what grows Lemmy. Second, bot posts are not well received by most here I think.

I can see it useful only as a “reddit backup” of kind, in case the platform goes offline for good and all that is lost.

I would worry for the level of moderation required to filter shitty / ai / bots etc.

Well, that’s true of most internet. Luckly, internet Is not (yet) real life.

I am not american and frankly find American style polemics quite hard to understand. Mind me I have quite a few american good friends, and I lived in the USA for a few years too, nothing against USA itself.

But yes Tolerance is at the base of civil life and that’s true even with intolerant people.

How does the Lemmy creators actually personally benefit from the fact I run my own Lemmy instance?

I do not donate to them, but how is the technology created be them evil if it fits my concept of decentralized web?

Do they get money because I run my instance o use another one not under their control? O doubt it

I am actually using their tech against themselves, so what?