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@hammerfar For starters, I was planning to build a prototype with Tailscale and Nextcloud (plus possibly Matrix, but that might already be too much extra complexity).

@fribbledom ah yes, be prepared to sacrifice another black rooster when there's a Gradle update 🙄

@jwz It's loonies all the way down 🤦

@hammerfar not much yet - currently in the process of hiring a PhD student who will work on the project. We'll probably start with a survey of non-techie users to figure out what would help them most in ditching Big Tech platforms.

@vonslatt Our current strategy is to have two identical disks, but not run them as a RAID0 - rather, we have a cronjob that rsyncs everything from A to B during the night. That way, disk B is way less heavily used than disk A, and in the very worst case, we lose something like ~23 hours of data. Based on most of the responses, this might actually still be a reasonable approach.

@ax6761 I admit I've never touched ZFS - from what I can see in the nice primer here (https://blog.victormendonca.com/2020/11/03/zfs-for-dummies/), RAIDZ-2 would require at least 4 disks, do you think RAIDZ-1 would also be an option or are there some pitfalls I'm not aware of?

@DarthJysky The available servers suddenly get way more expensive with 4 disks, it seems.

Me and a couple of friends have been running our own root server for literal decades, and the hardware is getting a bit long in the tooth, so time for an upgrade.
The question right now is which storage configuration to pick, it's mostly a choice between RAID0-ish(*) over 2 x 8 TB disks or RAID5 over 3 x 4 TB. What does the fediverse think?
(*) not a live RAID0, but a nightly mirror from main disk to backup disk
#selfhosting #linux #sysadmin

@foonathan @regehr @void_friend Hell hath no fury like a German whose property is violated by a wayward tree branch.

@void_friend @regehr Embarrassed to say that a) I didn't grow up too far from Schemmerhofen, and b) this is absolutely on par for the folks down there 🤷

@randahl Can't vote, but watching the "liberals" screw up their PR so badly is just 👌🍿

@futzle Mastodon should give you a Necromancer badge for that 👌

@aeva Try as I might, I can only come up with one. Feeling very inadequate now 🫣

@krono Och Mist. Hoffe Du hast noch was geeignetes gefunden...

@krono Oder näher am Bahnhof und auch sehr nett: Parkcafe  https://www.parkcafe089.de/

@krono Aus persönlicher Erfahrung von vor X Jahren: Cafe an der Uni (https://www.cadu.de/). Gerade geschaut, existiert noch 😉

Went to the gym yesterday for the first time in a few months, still managed to do the same sets as before, felt great afterwards 💪
Fast forward to today where I just tried to walk down some stairs and AAAARGH 😖
#healthyliving

@mhoye Let me guess, they're gonna do a remake? 😑🙄

@hannorein Same here, just did an online presentation of our paper at a conference in Chicago (@tei_conf) - they did a great job enabling remote attendance, but it's still not quite the same. 🤷

@zatnosk That is admittedly a very good point.