tychosmoose

Some of the downtown is a bit uncomfortable in places, but holy cow the people are nice. It’s the midwesternest part of NY.

I think you missed the point entirely. Yes, the thread is about weird flexes. Just yesterday there was a discussion in [email protected] about Plex, and a lot of people who run Jellyfin were saying running Plex isn’t selfhosting. A weird (to me) anti-Plex flex.

OP asked for weird flexes. Weird flex in reply.

So when you replied:

hosting your own media server is just so weird

You seem to be disparaging the hobby of selfhosted media servers. That’s why I responded as I did. I never said that I participate in that hobby at all, so I’m not sure why you think I’m the one doing the flexing here.

I guess what you may be saying is that you don’t recognize “running a media server” as a hobby at all, but some kind of weird flex within the space of “I like movies.” I can see your point that in a conversation about “I like movies,” jumping in with “I run my own media server, akshully” could come off very negatively. I agree. There are a lot of self-congratulatory dingbats in that space. But that’s not what happened here.

Open-ended question looking for weird flexes people have heard. Weird flex was provided.

Have a nice day.

Boom - told 'em!

People have different hobbies than you? I’ve never heard such a thing. Truly weird!

They run Jellyfin and not Plex.

Heh, hi from [email protected]

DAC will have less latency, but the difference is likely small. 1/10th, but if your latency is already <1ms then you probably don’t care.

Heat/power is another difference. Copper SFP modules tend to use a lot of watts and dissipate a lot of heat. DACs are very, very low wattage. You can probably save 4 watts on that link by switching. More if your specific copper modules run hotter than most or if you’re using an SFP+ at 1Gbps.

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So no image pull from docker.io, right?

For your situation I would be more likely to go with a single drive with btrfs and dup for metadata redundancy. Regular snapshots and scrubs.

Use a second drive in the same system with btrfs to store snapshots at wider scheduled intervals. These will be bigger since no CoW on the separate file system. Scheduled scrub here too.

Use a third drive with ext4 as a backup target using a separate backup mechanism.

Use the fourth drive as a spare, or in a separate location as a target to send the backups if you don’t already have an off-site solution.

Funny. I just gave away my desktop with that same chipset & CPU. It was a really good hardware generation.

No plans for a replacement in the near future.

Even if I want to, I canopic one to do it.

Same. Moved from OpenWRT through OPNsense to Mikrotik. The performance per watt and per dollar is great.

What are you saving on that drive? Many data file formats already have compression of their own and don’t benefit much from file system compression. So if this is for media files, for example, it’s likely to add CPU overhead without a big benefit in transfer speed.

ZFS is not installed by default with most Linux distributions due to its license. It’s something you install after the os. Btrfs should work, but I see some discussion online of 128 or 256MB minimum volume size.

Sorry. That is what I meant.

Zero zombies here. I have a couple of Debian servers and one repeatedly upgraded Ubuntu on noble numbat that I’m too lazy to migrate to Debian. None have zombies.

Do you run a DE? Mine are headless.

There were 1300 cases of armed robbery in the US in 2024.

That number seemed way off to me. Not sure where you got it. Perhaps in some kind of analysis of a sample/subset of cases?

Robberies all involve violence or a threat of violence, so calling out armed robbery specifically seems too narrow. Someone says they have a weapon and robs you, that’s reported as a robbery. If the police catch them and they are unarmed, that’s still just robbery, not armed robbery. But it seems relevant to the point in this discussion.

Anyway, New York City alone had almost that many robberies in the month of December 2024, and had 16000 robberies for the year in 2024. Source

The number I see for the country in 2024 is ~625000 robbery cases from FBI data. Just looking at armed robbery is more like 100k cases (200k if you include strong arm). Source

Ah, but the color was named after the fruit!

Before oranges were introduced to English speaking areas the color was called yellow red. The use of orange for the color is only attested from c1500.

Debian

FWIW Tumbleweed isn’t immutable. It’s a rolling release. MicroOS is the official openSUSE immutable release, but it’s server oriented. Kalpa is immutable openSUSE for desktop, but still in development.

The separate Aeon desktop project is immutable and more mature, and also focused on desktop usage. With Gnome.

That’s a nice looking switch. Wow. I bet it makes a nice thwack.

It looks like there are two ground/earth wires on one ground post and two hots on the corresponding hot. Two circuits are being powered through the one switch. Would need to see more of the device guts to understand why.

I think that would be classified as a Rocker switch with a Paddle actuator.

From the back it looks like a DPST switch.
Double/Dual Pole means it switches two separate pairs of conductors at once. Many circuits only need to switch the hot or the ground wire and use a Single Pole switch. A SPST switch has 2 terminals on the back. This one has 4 so it can switche both the hot and ground at the same time.
Single Throw means it’s got only off and on. No other position. Dual Throw would have 3 positions, so a SPDT would have 3 terminals on the back, and a DPDT switch has 6 terminals on the back.

Rectangular
Panel mount
Recessed or Inset

Any numbers or markings on the back? I wouldn’t be surprised if this isn’t available any more. To me it looks like something from the 1970s-1990s.

There might be markings on the circuit board that help date it.