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I am working to find a cheaper solution for my personal backups that are about 3-4TB. Borgbase is too expensive. I bought a Hetzner Storage Box - 13 Euros a month for 5TB. That's insanely cheap. 3x cheaper than BorgBase. And it supports borg, sftp, webdav and more.

Currently I am trying a new app I found - Kopia - entirely open source and fast as hell. That plus Hetzner via webdav. So far so great. I will make an article after I decide how to move forward with the backups. Could be an interesting article in terms of how I manage to backup some 2-3TB of server files and some 3-4TB of personal files. Millions in total. Daily. Automated and encrypted.

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I have also looked at Hetnzer's storage pods. DO KEEP IN MIND: they don't have redundancy

(by that I mean: yes, they do use RAID but it's all on one server.
If you compare that with Backblaze B2 for example: there it's more distributed across the entire data center)

While an OVHfire type situation would likely destroy an entire datacenter, with Backblaze it's possible that the only the affected area lost some data but not all of it.

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also: don't underestimate social connections: if you have friends who do self hosting things or have a NAS: ask if you could use some.

"Can I store x TB on your server if you get to store x TB on my server?"
Doesn't get much cheaper than that

in reply to Thibault Molleman 🔜 FOSDEM

Sure if you have that, but I need 4-5TB....hard to find someone with so much diskspace to spare....
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it's suprising how often someone in your friend group might be an /r/datahoarder and has a ton of storage
in reply to Thibault Molleman 🔜 FOSDEM

I understand but I am willing to take that risk. Hopefully no one blows up Hetzner datacenters :D. And if they do is ok, these are just backups. My personal files are safe on my laptop anyway and will do new backups.
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as long as you do 3-2-1 backup
There should be 3 copies of data
On 2 different media
With 1 copy being off-site
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in reply to Thibault Molleman 🔜 FOSDEM

I do not. I used to but not anymore. Costs more money and makes you glued to external drives. I need to find a balance between keeping my files safe and myself sane :). Most people do no backups. I do them to an online location and I think that's enough. Even if I lose them all no biggie I have my files on my computer I can start as new. :)


The usual Manjaro Stable updates plus: Theme synchronization madness It is indeed difficult to make a consistent Linux desktop nowadays.

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Thank you Ioana for becoming the 38th TROM Supporter! :) - We need to find 200 people to donate 5 Euros a month for TROM to support us forever - see tromsite.com/donate/

Currently we are working on managing our backups a bit better because it has become quite expensive to backup TB of data. We work on a new release of TROMjaro too, and more such technical stuff.

However soon we will shift gears and do more TROMcasts and hopefully either start creating new books that are already in the making, or transform them into a long-term video series. If we reach the 200 for TROM goal, then it will be all of that, and more, plus no more stress. To be able to continue to fight, while not getting rich off of it.

In the long term, like we said before, we'd like to create a decentralized sharing platform where people can share from gadgets to food and everything in between.

TROM is active, and more so when we get new supporters! :) Thank you!

#tromlive

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Go Israel!!! Wohoo! Kill those bastards who behaved like animals and killed women and children and innocent people of Israel!

Kill the children and women and innocent people too!

Oh wait... Israel is doing what Hamas has done....

Anyway, good job Israel. Keep on killing! And then the families of the ones you killed will revenge one day, and then you can kill more, and then more of their families and friends will kill your people...

Awesome!

EDIT: A good article about the situation - currentaffairs.org/2023/10/you…

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This is the cycle of revenge that perpetuates violence and atrocities.

youtube.com/watch?v=UWuT8d78yt…

I'd like to share this interview of Noam Chomsky about terrorism and how we can reduce its risk, he also talks about how it's only considered terrorism by the media when they do it to us and not when we do it to them.





Annular Solar Eclipse "Ring of Fire" hits the North America continent.

Watch it live at NASA's official broadcast: youtu.be/LlY79zjud-Q

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I missed the live but saw some of the replays. It is always astonishing to me that the alignment of the moon and the sun and their sizes are so damn good, that allows s to observer such rare events.
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Yup, mesmerizing.. And even the fact that these exact parameters - the sizes of the Moon and the Sun and the distances between them and Earth, allow to observe full or annular eclipses from the surface how they are, is so unique to our planet. There's no other planet in our solar system which allows to see such a perfect coverage of the sun by its moon or moons.
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yup that's what I was saying - quite something. ofc nothing compares to seeing it in reality. did you see any full solar eclipse directly?
in reply to Tio

Yeah, I've seen one, but only partial. It was still surreal tho, seeing how it becomes way darker in the mid of the day 🤯 And you?
in reply to Roma

Yes I saw a full one when I was 12. I remember even now. Quite vividly. Yeah so bizarre to see day transform into night so quickly. I'd love to see one now through my telescope :D
in reply to Tio

@tio
I was told that you're not supposed to look at a solar eclipse directly without using special eclipse glasses to protect your eyes, be safe guys! 🙃
@Tio
in reply to Rokosun

We had special googles. You can't even look at it that well without googles.
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@Roma @Tio

You know why the moon can perfectly cover the sun during a solar eclipse? There's nothing mysterious about it, the moon is actually getting further away from Earth as its orbit grows about 1.5 inches larger every year, it's just that all of us happen to live around the exact time where earth and moon are at the right distance away to make total solar eclipse possible - a wonderful coincide 🙂 However this also means we won't always have this kind of eclipse forever as the moon gets further away from earth.

spaceplace.nasa.gov/total-sola…

@Tio @Roma


Faire front : les camarades de #Montreuil ont eu le nez creux, c'est toute la problématique de la période. Le programme est passionnant, les invité·es de super militant·es de terrain. C'est l'occasion de rencontrer les groupes #UnionCommunisteLibertaire du grand Paris !

facebook.com/events/6747655246…



What consumes a lot of my time with TROMjaro is to test and fix the GTK and QT theme sync...oh and fix the Libadwaita ones....and the Flatpak ones...damn such a mess! It is fucked up that you do not allow the system to wrap/hug your app window so that we can have the same damn window bars and borders for all apps for functionality/usability and style reasons. idk who thought it is a good idea to force their own window wrapping....terrible!

Plus to not respect the system's theme....

So at times I wonder if I should give up and not fix this. Let people have a wide variety of themes, buttons, colors, shadows, borders....and embrace the mess. idk....but currently we have to do a LOT of dancing in TROMjaro to sync this with that, check the system's theme, copy the contents there, do the same for icons, check the font....WTF.

In what sane Operating System is it that apps look different in terms of their windows and buttons from what the System uses, or be unable to change the font for all apps or icons...like...why are some people killing the theming in Linux!?

This is tiring... #tromstuff

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Yeah this whole situation is just bad for accessibility......