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by mceachen 6y ago
Author here: I actually added SnapRAID to the article a while back due to some of my beta testers singing its praises. I haven't used it myself, but I'm glad it's saved your data!
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by mceachen 6y ago
Author here! I actually hadn't even heard of Unraid until about a year ago, when some of my beta users were asking for help with their docker setup, and when I asked their host OS, they said "UnRAID". The community is support
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by mceachen 6y ago
> It would be great to see a breakdown and guidance to integrity checking of files through BTRFS/ZFS/ etc. Like, if try to cause bitrot manually, and see how each recover? There's this: https://askubuntu.com&#x2
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by mceachen 6y ago
FreeNAS was BSD based (but I've been too chicken to migrate to True as after reading stuff in the subreddit). The GUI _is_ pretty slick.
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by mceachen 6y ago
> I never upgraded capacity in the last 7 years (3TB mirrored) and would probably go 14TB mirrored on the new one, so seems like a waste. Wow, yeah, if your storage growth is that stable, and there's a big cost penalty for 4+ slots,
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by mceachen 6y ago
That's really interesting: it's pretty apparent in most images when an 8x8 block is borked. It could just randomly flip bits to minimize entropy in both his and lightness channels.
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by mceachen 6y ago
Ah crap that should say slots, not drives, my bad. Thanks for bringing this to my attention!
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by mceachen 6y ago
Unfortunately, having directly felt the brunt of Google AI deciding it needed to disable something about my account for no appreciable reason, this is simply not true. Even if Google had reasonable customer support, relying only on a clou
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by mceachen 6y ago
Great question: it's for expandability. If you run RAID-1 in a 2-slot NAS, and you run out of space, you've got two options: 1) buy another NAS 2) move off of RAID, and have 2 distinct volumes. You'll have twice the storage,
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by mceachen 6y ago
Author here: fun to see this on the home page! I had so many of my family, friends, and beta users ask me this question that I decided to do some research and write it up. If you've got suggestions, or find any bit confusing, I'm
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by mceachen 6y ago
> If it doesn’t spark digital joy then maybe it should go in the virtual bin. OR... maybe... you just haven't found an app that can gracefully clean up your mess yet. I can't help with general documents, but for photos and vide
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by mceachen 6y ago
I solved this by only including a unique prefix of the website, like "warby@example.com".
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by mceachen 6y ago
I've found a discouraging amount of bit rot in my older (15+ year old) magnetic media. I think if you can pull a file off of magnetic media that's older than 10 years old, you should should be feeling lucky. Move the files to a ne
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by mceachen 6y ago
Depending on the storage technology. SD cards and USB sticks can experience “cell voltage drift,” and lose data integrity in 5-7 years.
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by mceachen 6y ago
Ah! I had so many of my beta users ask this precise question that I did some research and wrote up this article: https://photostructure.com/faq/how-do-i-safely-store-files/ TL:DR; Have several copies on different
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by mceachen 6y ago
> bring macOS up to Linux level GNU with brew. Ugh, not even. Simple and straightforward shell scripts that work on decade-old Linux distributions don't work on Big Sur due to ancient macOS bsd tooling. Just look at stackoverflow or
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by mceachen 6y ago
At least for your photos, you probably want to use Google Takeout. Rclone is wonderful, but Google's photo api strips off GPS tags from all your files. PhotoStructure will dedupe your Google Takeout, FWIW.
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by mceachen 6y ago
> Ideally, it should be a few emails spread across a longer period, such as one month before, two weeks before and five days before. That's a great suggestion, I'll try to make that happen. > key features will be disabled un
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by mceachen 6y ago
Really interesting idea! I was thinking this might be a neat color name-to-rgb tool, but the resulting color deviates substantially from expected colors (which, given the algorithm, is to be expected): https://alexbeals.com/
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by mceachen 6y ago
> Subscriptions are rife with dark patterns. Agreed. As some random internet person to another, there's not much I can do (that I haven't already done on my website) to try to convince you that I'll do my best to avoid gro
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by mceachen 6y ago
ICYMI, I wrote down my thoughts about this topic (both as a fellow consumer and as an author of commercial software): https://photostructure.com/about/v-0-9/#-this-_really-will_-...
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by mceachen 6y ago
I'm not defending any megacorp, but looking at where each corp gets their revenue is probably a reasonable way to determine who the corp is trying to make happy. If most of your revenue is from advertisers, you're going to try to
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by mceachen 6y ago
If you're looking for something to clean up the mess that Google Photos Takeout leaves you and give you a fast, self-hosted UI, you're all welcome to try PhotoStructure: it'll de-dupe the mess into nice (customizable) timesta
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Switch your cross-platform CI to GitHub Actions in 5 minutes(photostructure.com)
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by mceachen 6y ago
I consider the code and data on my DO droplets to be secure as long as I've done a reasonable attempt at server hardening. If nextcloud gives you any attitude, you're welcome to try out PhotoStructure. It's much more focused
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by mceachen 6y ago
Try a higher-quality power supply for your RPi.
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by mceachen 6y ago
I've had so many beta users ask me this that I did some research and wrote this up: https://photostructure.com/faq/how-do-i-safely-store-files/ TLDR: have multiple copies of everything. Printed copies on acid
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by mceachen 6y ago
> Google Takeout does solve this but but in weird hierarchies. Surprisingly, the Takeout split archives can contain partial contents for a given folder or album. If you extract everything into a single merged root, you'll see both t
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by mceachen 6y ago
Howdy! I'm the author of PhotoStructure. The next release (I expect alpha builds to be available in a week or two) has album support: including automatic album importing from Google Takeouts. https://forum.photostructure.com
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by mceachen 6y ago
Got it. FWIW, arbitrary tagging (and rating and flags) are on my to-do list. https://forum.photostructure.com/t/support-for-manually-edit...

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