3 ms·

I switched from migadu to iCloud to increase my bus factor for the family. It's been interesting and a bit painful. For example I have a filter to forward emai

by zeagle 2y ago

I switched from migadu to iCloud to increase my bus factor for the family. It's been interesting and a bit painful. For example I have a filter to forward emails from an 'bothofus' alias to my spouse's iCloud account at the same domain because there is no way to have a true alias --> mailbox1, mailbox2. Sometimes iCloud bounces these emails from sent from itself.

JumpCrisscross 2y ago
> to increase my bus factor for the family ?
- nycdatasci 2y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor The bus factor (aka lottery factor,[1][2] truck factor,[3] or circus factor[4]) is a measurement of the risk resulting from information and capabilities not being shared among team members, derived from the phrase "in case they get hit by a bus".
  - dktp 2y ago
    I think the question is about why someone would want to _increase_ their bus factor for the family
    - nixgeek 2y ago
      Bus factor being “1” means nothing works if you’re hit by a bus.
      - chrisweekly 2y ago
        Or, less gruesome, if you take a bus out of town.
        nkrisc 2y ago
        That’s much less meaningful.
    - deleted 2y ago
      [deleted]
    - lloeki 2y ago
      > The "bus factor" is the minimum number of team members that have to suddenly disappear from a project before the project stalls due to lack of knowledgeable or competent personnel IOW higher == better
    - zeagle 2y ago
      There is a bias in technical knowledge. I used to be huge into self hosting but came to the realization that if I died tomorrow my NAS, domain, email and backups of our family photos would work until they don’t. An unpaid invoice, a cancelled credit card, a failed reboot or maybe the nastiest was plugged into a new network. So in my case increasing the bus factor refers to: a regular usb drive hooked up to the nas that has an unencrypted ntfs drive with our photos and paperless archive; iCloud email that will stay up; Bitwarden hosted on their end. Same reason I have a very health life insurance and disability policy.
- deleted 2y ago
  [deleted]

by zeagle 2y ago

JumpCrisscross 2y ago

> to increase my bus factor for the family ?

nycdatasci 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor The bus factor (aka lottery factor,[1][2] truck factor,[3] or circus factor[4]) is a measurement of the risk resulting from information and capabilities not being shared among team members, derived from the phrase "in case they get hit by a bus".
- dktp 2y ago
  I think the question is about why someone would want to _increase_ their bus factor for the family
  - nixgeek 2y ago
    Bus factor being “1” means nothing works if you’re hit by a bus.
    - chrisweekly 2y ago
      Or, less gruesome, if you take a bus out of town.
      - nkrisc 2y ago
        That’s much less meaningful.
  - deleted 2y ago
    [deleted]
  - lloeki 2y ago
    > The "bus factor" is the minimum number of team members that have to suddenly disappear from a project before the project stalls due to lack of knowledgeable or competent personnel IOW higher == better
  - zeagle 2y ago
    There is a bias in technical knowledge. I used to be huge into self hosting but came to the realization that if I died tomorrow my NAS, domain, email and backups of our family photos would work until they don’t. An unpaid invoice, a cancelled credit card, a failed reboot or maybe the nastiest was plugged into a new network. So in my case increasing the bus factor refers to: a regular usb drive hooked up to the nas that has an unencrypted ntfs drive with our photos and paperless archive; iCloud email that will stay up; Bitwarden hosted on their end. Same reason I have a very health life insurance and disability policy.
deleted 2y ago
[deleted]