The main concern with old hardware is probably powerdraw/efficiency, depending on how old your PC is, it might not be the best choice. But remember: companies are getting rid of old hardware fairly quickly, they can be a good choice and might be available for dirt cheap or even free.

I recently replaced my old Synology NAS from 2011 with an old Dell Optiplex 3050 workstation that companies threw away. The system draws almost twice the power (25W) compared to my old synology NAS (which only drew 13W, both with 2 spinning drives), but increase in processing power and flexibility using TrueNAS is very noticable, it allowed me to also replace an old raspberry pi (6W) that only ran pihole.

So overall, my new home-server is close in power draw to the two devices it replaced, but with an immense increase in performance.

I bookmarked this post a few days ago, but only just had the time to set it up today. Installing it as a custom app on TrueNAS was very easy, if only I had known it would just be a 3 minute job :D

I am running TrueNAS as well, and I keep snapshots for about a week. When I set up snapshots, I noticed the same issue as you: On a Linux client there seems to be no convenient way to browse these snapshots using the file manager (like “previous versions” on windows), and the only way I was able to browse snapshots was using ssh into the TrueNAS system.

While inconvenient, I figured that’s good enough for me, I don’t really tend to accidentally delete files off my system and on the rare occasion that I do, I can just use the command line. So far, I didn’t have the need to access an earlier snapshot.

But having a convenient way to browse the snapshots using a webUI is great, Thank you for creating this application, so far it works great as a custom application on TrueNAS, I was able to successfully browse and download files from previous snapshots :)

Some things that can be useful, although I don’t know how easily they can be implemented:

• When viewing a snapshot, highlight files (and possibly folders) that differ from the current state (deleted files in red, modified files in yellow, for example)
• Downloading entire folders, that would probably require timeship to zip them up beforehand, though.

My wife took it in the divorce.

If you weren’t eating so many goddamn avocado toasts, you would, too.

As a german, I’d prefer permanent daylight time, I want there to be longer light in the evening. I hate when during the winter months I leave the appartment when it is still dark outside and come back home when it’s already dusk.

That said, I can see why this wouldn’t work across the entire EU, Spain for example is already “an hour behind” in terms of daylight, because of their location, their DST means it’s probably light outside at 22:00

Thin, cylindrical unleavened dough, served on a hard corn based, edible plate.

“Yo, Dawg. I heard you like subsystems…”

I am so fucking fed up with every right wing numbnut calling it a combustion engine ban. It does not ban combustion engines.

All manufacturers need to do, is make their combustion engines clean, then they can continue selling them 2035 and beyond. But it’s obvious, they are incapable of doing so, combustion engines have been pretty stagnant, almost as if they have reached their limits…

Boxes stack better than lose phones with various different sizes and shapes of camera bumps.

As someone who uses nextcloud exclusively for calDAV and cardDAV, what replacements are recommended?

The YouTube microphone situation is crazy…

Baby diarrhea green

That’s what someone in the pockets of big mouth wash would say.

Nöte that calyxOS is currently halted, and instructions and downloads on their website are currently inaccessible.

Back when Randall Munroe released his “What if” in eBook format, it essentially was only available with DRM.
When I emailed him about it, asking for a place to buybit without DRM, he responded with DRM being mandatory by his publisher, and finished his email with a link to this comic of his:
https://xkcd.com/488/

I bought a kindle when amazon sold them for a special price of 25 Euro. It’s a cool device for reading books, but I found their UI horrendously cluttered and filled with “suggestions” instead of focusing on the content I already have. I have since jailbroken the device and am using koreader on the device to read my ebooks transfered as epubs via calibre.

That has the advantage that when I buy DRM-free books in epub format, I am not relying on amazon to properly convert the file to a kindle proprietary format.

Borderlands 4 is better than Borderlands 4, but not even half as good as Borderlands 4.

Looking forward to the sequel, Borderlands 4.

There was a “what if” episode, that went into exactly this. It starts off with large magnitudes, then explores the tiny ones. https://youtu.be/e3uk7jU3RHo

“It’s only a ‘Sieg Heil’ if it comes from the right handed region, otherwise it’s just sparkling hatespeech”