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  • mbirth@lemmy.mltoSysadmin@lemmy.worldNAS build at home
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    16 days ago

    Do you really want to run this yourself? If the data is that important to you, I’d probably rather invest in something like a Synology NAS. They make sure that updates won’t kill your data, everything stays secure and you don’t have to mess with mdadm or LVM yourself.

    Under the hood, Synology’s SHR also uses bog-standard MD and LVM. So even if the NAS dies, you can still read your data on any Linux machine. But you won’t have to think about updates potentially breaking anything and it has a plethora of features around storage management that you can configure with a few clicks instead of messing around with system packages, config files and systemd.








  • My email provider allows for unlimited aliases. So, while I have 600+ email addresses, emails to them all end up in the same mailbox.

    The accounts for all the websites and services (with their specific email address) are in a KeePass database and they all have random passwords, too.

    The only small issue is when you have to contact support of some service. Then, I have to configure the specific email address in my client so they can match that to my account with them. But most email clients allow multiple sender addresses without having to fiddle with the rest of the settings.


  • I don’t remember whether it was some news article or a discussion thread. But other people also suggested this might help during therapy and/or rehab. And they had the same argument in that nobody gets harmed in creating these.

    As for uses outside of controlled therapy, I’d be afraid it might make people want the “real thing” at some point. And, as others already pointed out: Good luck proving to your local police that those photos on your laptop are all “fake”.