For say a keypass db you don’t need even that, Just sshd gets you rsync on your computer with cron or systemd timer / service… Personally I just use an old version of Syncthing-Fork though, security implications for local network are minimal.

Sounds good.

Sensible, limiting scope and knowing your limits are wisdoms all too many lack. Having something that fills the text/sound/vidya needs and is easy to spin up will find uses, doesn’t need to do everything.

To the end of being easy to spin up, which is likely to attract other developers in time if that’s something you’d like, consider wrapping it up in a docker container. It’s not that hard, basically follow your own instructions in a special docker build format.

Sure, you do what you can.

Biologically inert, used in surgical implants, I’m going with safe (certainly safer than the alternatives).

Hello Kessler Syndrome

May I introduce you to the concept of ‘natural monopoly’.

Basically most natural monopolies (power, phone lines, roads etc) in most places were historically run by governments (because it’s bloody sensible) until the neoliberal movement in the 80s privatized them because ‘private enterprise is more efficient’ (at extracting tax dollars as it turned out) and to balance a few budgets.

Should definitely be ruled a failed experiment and rolled back.

Some things to think about.

Even ZFS now let’s you add a new drive to an array, and the sweet spot for $/TB is ~16-20TB at the moment, so maybe think about 2 or 3x16TB and add more later (also less power).

Consider manufacturer recertified (not refurbished) server drives from serverpartdeals.com or your local equivalent, after all RAID is there to let you survive a disk failure, it’s treated me well, and lets you avoid SMR drives.

You can mix drives of different sizes if you use Unraid or roll your own with mergerfs+snapraid (+OpenMediaVault perhaps). I do the latter, it’s a bit of a setup, but has the advantage that drives are just drives and you can use the working ones while rebuilding the array and you can recover accidental deletions (for a while), which brings me to ‘RAID is not a backup’.

For true data safety you should have an offline backup (i.e. drives that live disconnected from your computer except during backup, safe from lightning, accidental deletion etc.) and eventually an offsite copy.

Personally I think the AI bought all our drives from WD is likely BS (seems lightly supported) to goose their product prices, so hopefully it’ll blow over, but prices seldom go down, inflation catches up. Sigh.

Zen (firefox (gecko) derivative, No AI, focus on decluttered interface) has bloody excellent tab management these days, workspaces, folders, horizontal tab lists (like sideberry), essentials (tab icons pinned to the top), auto unload, all built in, and everything disappears when reading a page.

You know, this is the sort of thing that users should really be made aware of…

Also pretty sure I’ve seen deleted posts when they’ve been replied to ( don’t think the username is there though), which makes sense.

Yeah, I have “Analyze Video Files” on, doesn’t get me a list of substandard files though, just sends the arr after stuff it’s probably already not finding.

tdarr

Hadn’t seen the Property search in here before, might get me most of the way there. Got it around somewhere, might have to spin it back up. Maybe I can raid it’s database as well. Thanks.

So, unless I didn’t dive deep enough, Configarr / Trash guides is mostly about setting up quality profiles and media paths and so forth, something I long ago sorted out to my satisfaction.

What I guess I was after was something to find stuff that has fallen through the cracks, highlighting stuff that doesn’t meet my standards and seeing whether I care enough to go looking for upgrades.

Strangely there doesn’t seem to be a simple app to run ffprobe over your library and populate a database for querying video quality, maybe I’ll get around to knocking one out one day, but today is not that day.

Yoda voice: Begun the AI Patent wars have.

I don’t want to balloon the project

Fair cop, and no I haven’t really dived into Configarr and the trash guides (although I vaguely remember coming across them), oh joy, another rabbit hole. I do try to keep a simple stack, and what I have has served me well for years. But thanks, no need to reinvent the wheel if that handles my use case.

Having smaller projects with specific scope that do something well and can be plugged together is always preferable to some sprawling monstrosity. Used to be called the Unix way (pipe sed into awk etc.) and could stand to be revisited today. Best of luck.

I had a quick look, I think I could find a use for it but what I’d most be interested in is a dry run spitting out a list of missing / low res / low bitrate / stereo (I much prefer 5.1+), perhaps old codec, etc. media. Like many I have my own standards for what needs to be how good and so forth.

Ideally I could edit said list and put it back in as an active search list (perhaps chunking and prioritizing as well and iterating the process). Seems like this is 90% of the way there, any chance of an enhancement ?

Bit reluctant to just let someone else’s code go ham on my media library without a me in the loop step.

Same principle as “your spending will increase to match your income”.

Good to hear. Have fun.

(but not necessarily the Ubuntu, Fedora, or Mint desktop).

Rut. Thanks for ruining my day, sigh. That shit better be a patch away from removal / spoofing…

“Don’t worry about that, you can just run it in the cloud for an eternal subscription” - Microslop.

OK, Board of Peace is Orwellian, but Department of War ? If it was a theme it’d be Dept of Peace as well. It’s like some clueless dotard is just throwing random shit at the wall to see what sticks, while diverting attention from evil. Oh, wait…