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  • felbane@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•You can't "skill issue" yourself out from every situation
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    1 month ago

    I love that FreeCAD exists and use it often, but I really hate how much you have to “fight” the UI. I even briefly considered learning OpenSCAD out of frustration with the ui and the toponaming problem (before realizing that switching to OpenSCAD would just shift my frustration onto Javascript fuckery).

    Now that the latter is fixed, though, I have just forced myself to forget how to do things the “normal” CAD way (i.e. using patterns and flows that most other software has standardized around) and instead how to do them the FreeCAD way.

    I hope at some point we get an overhaul of the UX, but in the meantime I’ll grin and bear it since I have yet to find an even remotely comparable F/OSS CAD software that works the same on both Linux and Windows.

  • felbane@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•What's a good HTPC OS and software?English
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    2 months ago

    I can attest to projectivy and smarttube, they are great. I went with the internet’s recommendation on the $20 Walmart/onn Google tv 4k box, with projectivy as the launcher instead of the default.

    My only gripe so far is that the remote doesn’t seem to consistently turn the box on, I have to go unplug the box every so often to reset it. probably some misconfiguration that’s making it not wake from sleep correctly.

    Despite that issue, 10/10 experience: ad free YouTube, fast jellyfin in 4k, fully customizable ui…

  • felbane@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Proxmox setup - help neededEnglish
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    4 months ago

    No, but you’ll have much more overhead. I have a VM that hosts all Docker deployments which don’t need much disk space (most of them)

    This is a big point. One of the key advantages of docker is the layering and the fact that you can build up a pretty sizeable stack of isolated services based on the same set of core OS layers, which means significant disk space savings.

    Sure, 200-700MB for a stack of core layers seems small but multiply that by a lot of containers and it adds up.

  • felbane@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•How old are the disks in your NAS?English
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    6 months ago

    Ultimately it’s a matter of personal choice and risk tolerance.

    The Z1 will be simpler and have larger capacity, but if you have a drive fail you’ll need to quickly get it replaced or risk having to rebuild/restore if the mirror drive follows the first one to the grave.

    Your Z2 setup right now can have two drives fail and still be online, and having a wider spread of power-on hours is usually a good thing in terms of failure probability.

    I manage a large (14,000±) number of on-site RAID1 arrays in various environments and there is definitely a trend for drives shipped at the same time to fail at roughly the same time. It’s common enough that we often intentionally swap drives out before shipping a new unit to the customer site.

    On my homelab, I’m much more tolerant of risk since I have trust in my 3-2-1 backup solution and if my NAS goes down it’s not going to substantially affect anything while I wait for a drive replacement.