The bubble of AAA gaming and reviews/benchmarks definitely has that kind of thing going on. But you can really just ignore that subset entirely and have so many good games to play from smaller studios and devs.

It’s not really a new thing, I remember when Crysis came out and it was all about the graphics and hardware to run it the fastest.

RAID means that if a drive fails you don’t have some downtime while your backups restore. It depends on how you feel about waiting for that.

Basic Brother black and white lasers come with only a USB connection and are really cheap to operate. Also no special drivers required.

Most multiplayer games now seem to focus on matchmaking and your performance, there’s not much focus on community anymore.

Everyone just plays for the highest score and doesn’t care about hanging out on a community run server every night with the same group of people.

skykick

Wtf is this? Their website is awful.

$12 per mailbox is a crazy high price.

He doesn’t have a good reputation for his videos or products that I’ve seen, they come across as very scammy and he has a very ‘podcast snakeoil scammer’ feel. I would avoid it.

Better off buying a Google Pixel, the older ones are cheap now.

dockers volume storage is bloody annoying to backup

They’re just normal folders located in /var/lib/docker/volumes so you can back up that directory.

They’re located in /var/lib/docker/volumes by default, so just back up that directory with Restic or Borg, or something like Backrest if you want notifications and stuff handled for you.

Or you can do mount points to a directory instead of using volumes and back that up, but it’s really the same process.

What does libre mean?

None of the alternatives are good enough yet. Either the UX is bad, or they are missing important features, or both in most cases. There is too much focus on privacy and encryption and not enough on being easy to use, and having the features people are used to.

Asking friends on Discord to switch to Matrix which is missing most of the features and bots they are used to is not going to work out. Same for Telegram to Signal or Matrix.

Docker is generally the easiest to install and update, and won’t disturb other existing applications.

I’m confused because the article talks about self hosting on a VPS and how many self hosted services could stand up to legal action?

That sounds like it’s describing running a public service for others. Self-hosting IMO is running something for yourself, it doesn’t even need to be on the public internet 99% of the time.

Running a service for others is just plain old hosting.

It’s basically the minimum level of redundancy you should have for storing important data.

3 total copies, 2 different types of storage, 1 of them offsite.

Backups also need to be tested like twice a year or so, do a restore as a test (full if you can, but partial is something at least) and make sure the data is what you expect.

I’m a fan of separating services when possible.

And emails are a huge pain to change, so it might be worth considering an email service with your own domain name.

CasaOS is fine, but the downside of tools like it is you don’t really know what’s going on under the hood, so if/when something breaks it may be really hard to fix.

But if it works for you I don’t see a reason to change. Just make sure you’ve got reliable backups following the 3-2-1 rule.

What instance?

You could do it with mdadm

Always have at least 3 copies of any important data. Follow the 3-2-1 rule.

Data loss can happen due to so many reasons, the only safe option is reliable and tested backups.

ext4 and others too.

You can ignore the RAM usage, it’s just cache. It uses up to half your RAM by default but if other things need it zfs will just clear RAM for that to happen.