Noise may be something to look for when you’re shopping, depending on where your server lives. I have 1 Iron Wolf drive in my NAS (that is in my living room), and it is way louder than the combined noise of 3 WD Reds next to it.
As for failures, Backblaze publishes quarterly failure reports that I always brush up on before looking for a new drive.
I was the first kid in middle school to have a portable dual tape deck stereo and was suddenly much more popular.
I don’t know if I was actually a GNR fan or if I just heard Appetite for Destruction so many times that I assumed I was a fan.
The majority of our household stuff is on a Synology DS920+ (x86). I installed Docker and Portainer on it and then run most of my local services (Immich, Invidious, Alexandrite (the Lemmy frontend), Miniflux, Dokuwiki, and Heimdall) using the Portainer UI.
I’m still running Plex as a manually installed Syno package, because I haven’t taken the time to figure out hardware trans-coding for other setups.
The 920 also manages cameras (via Surveillance Station), all off site backups (we all backup workstations to the 920 and it backs up online), handles private DNS and the reverse proxy for Docker, and hosts my personal VPN. I’m currently in the process of swapping the 4+ year old drives with new ones what will up my capacity (using SHR) from 12TB to 30 (with redundancy).
Clearly that’s what blu-tack is for.
“Secure that SSD in a bay and get the faceplate off my butterfly, you monster!” -Buster
I’m taking note of that that combo feather teaser / ball track / butterfly toy. I think my big orange boy would lose his mind over that.
I can sort of see the appeal, but its not for me. If anything is ever going to rename files for me its going to be a script that I’ve either written or at least read top to bottom. Not a blackbox inference engine, and especially not one based on an LLM.
I have my phone set so that that if people ring twice in quick succession it will still ring even if it’s in DND. And that will also work with the Ring function built into GSConnect/KDE Connect. I ring my phone from my laptop, wait a few seconds, then ring again.
So far no one has used it get past my DND.
If I had 25 surprise desktops I imagine I’d discover a long dormant need for a Beowulf cluster.
Nice. I’ve had this going a lot longer than the companion app has existed
My favorite is a script not a automation exactly. I run it (just before I get up for bed) via dashboard button or voice command and it:
Auto remote then triggers a tasker profile that makes my phone
See, the problem is I’ve always said that I’d replace Alexa when I had a meaningful alternative and this is doing all I need it to now. So now I actually have to follow through, and that feel like effort.
There may be a more straight forward way to do it now, but the traditional way is to add a condition to the automation based on the automation’s (or maybe the light or motion detector) last_triggered property. You need, AFAIK, to use a template for this.
A condition with something like this should make it so it can’t fire more than once every hour (60 seconds times 60 minutes):
{{ (as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(state_attr('automation.driveway','last_triggered'))) > 60 * 60 }}
Here is Home Assistant’s Blog Post on the subject.
I have 1 light in my house that can’t be put on a smart switch because of wiring issues. For it I have printed a couple of locks (the light has 2 switches) similar to these.
I know you said you don’t have a printer, but check etsy. Every good model ends up being sold by somebody on etsy. Or you can check to see if your local library offers use of 3d printers, mine has a whole maker space in it now.
I will call my Alexa replacement Mr Homn, because it will never talk back after I tell it to do something. By the way did you know that you request an extension to this comment by saying, “Alexa, please shut the fuck up.”
I just ordered another 12TB for my NAS