Determine the dust source and address it? Or just isolate your gear from the dust source.

Alternatively, box out an area for the lab that's mostly air tight, then use an air filter to pump filtered air into the mostly-sealed space. Positive pressure with filtered air, essentially.

But I don't really think that's necessary unless you're down there kicking up dust all the time.

Higher humidity helps keep dust down, too. As someone else mentioned, about 65% is kind of a general number to target for max.

That's a solid starting point, it did kind of seem like thats where the online sources were pointing, just nice to hear it from a human.

Re: Dust: The basement is only a few steps up from "root cellar". It's got stone walls and a concrete floor, but it still generates some decent dust. I wouldn't mind having a clean-ish space to work with stuff when I'm down there.

Without expertise in computer equipment and long term storage with humidity specifically:

Generally targeting less than 60% humidity is sufficient for long term storage of many items.

As for dust, depending on the form factor you are targeting, some cases come with built in dust filters, while you may also be able to buy some dust-specific air intake material. If you have any intake fans, then you can cover those with that material and clean it from time to time.

Dust is not likely to be your biggest concern.

I hate this take, and it seems to contradict itself.

What actually counts A copy counts when it survives the loss of the thing it was copied from. That one sentence settles most arguments about what is and isn't a backup.

So doesn't raid count then? If a drive fails and the second drive survives the loss, it is a backup...

Just because the copy is synchronous doesn't mean it isn't a backup, it just means it protects from a different type of failure.

• RAID: protects against a drive failure
• Snapshot: protects against user failure (rm *)
• Replication: protects against admin failure (zpool destroy)
• Offsite tape/async backup: protects against replication corruption, and total site failure

These are all backups, just with different recovery point objectives/recovery time objectives, and all just as important.

Sloppy, somawhat difficult to read. Should use a model that's better at writing English. 😄

Bold of you to assume I can afford backups, or redundancy

Anybody experience with running a ntp server on a VPS while being bridged to other networks (e.g. via Tailscale)?

Do you run ntp outside of your bridge to prevent an error in ntp giving someone access to your other networks?

My JetKVM often dies not detect hdmi when the system was off for an extended period of time. I always have to restart the JetKVM or the machine or both until it works. Did anyone experience this issue? Hopefully this is resolved with the new hardware.

Evil

Love this but why kill computers???

I don't worry about backups (mine are already near-perfect), but the more i open up access to our images, the more...well...open they are. Even if limited to local and firewalled and whatnot. Can't manually check every update on the source.

And as they say...comfort rarely goes hand-in-hand with security. You gotta give up one for the other.

If you implement a 3-2-1 or 4-3-2 backup strategy, test your backups, and do not open any ports on your host, you'll likely be alright. But it's an understandable concern.

Ai vibecode slop.

It is immich, but vibe coded on top.

Literally just forked immich, then 5 days ago let Claude run wild on it to get the few features the owner wanted, hundreds on commits within a few hours and then nothing after.

The owner has almost exclusively worked publically on LLM projects since 2023...

Noodle Gallery

is the pet recognition good enough?

Interesting, thanks for sharing!

I'm still on the fence whether we should use one at home. I'm just very paranoid about personal data 🫣

Yep homebox ftw ! You can even have a printed version of what's in your boxes so even if no internet (post apocalyptic safe :D) you can still find your stuff !!

I have all my boxes in my attic neatly organised, numbered and separated in different regions in the room !

No more hassle opening every box when looking for something.

You got ad free paper!?

Not at all, my day was a good one.

I get annoyed at people who are too dependent on apps or digital means of performing tasks of which analog is far superior.

I've been a prepper since pre-y2k and while I use and can thrive digitally I'm ready for the entire system to come crashing down, whether from a Carrington Event / solar flare, Kessler Syndrome or from a military / terror related attack on infrastructure. IMO being too reliant on digital tracking is a silly, wasteful and unnecessary when the old tools already work great.

I'm rooting for the breakdown so society can be rebuilt.

Ah, sorry! I just read the title and went with what I knew

Thank you! I do remember liking Housebook, but I'll check it out if I'm looking for one again!

I read the same thing and not knowing why they targeted me.

I looked at your comment history to see if you were someone I wanted to block, but most everything you post seems fine. Are you having a bad day or something?

Someone mentioned Homebox here which you might be interested in 😃