I really like my synology DS216j. Pretty much all I use it for is as a file server and storage, mostly because it can’t really do much beyond that these days, but it sure does handle that like a champ. I’m not trying to run a business with multiple users on it, just me and the family, which means mostly just me and my projects. It was super easy to set up in my early days of home networking knowing that I wanted a central location for storing my files from different devices and holding my expanding media collection. I think I saw that it had been running for over a year (would have been several years, but we get power outages occasionally and it’s not on a UPS) without a restart when I increased my storage, and it’s been running without issue since 2017. I’m planning on upgrading to a device that has 4+ drives sometime soon to make expanding and redundancy easier to handle, but it’s a hard sell when this one is still chugging along.

I think it helps that I’ve always had a raspberry pi or other computer do the tasky things, so I never got entrenched in trying to make it do anything other than be a dlna/upnp server for media and shared file jockey for everything else.

Tar lzma nuts, amirite?

If the roots were fine, I’d leave it be in it’s new soil and keep an eye on it.

I would guess that you have root rot, I would get it out of that container ASAP to check the roots and let the soil dry out. White and/or stiff roots are good, soft and brown are bad. Rotting roots can kill the plant so you want to remove them. You want to use isopropanol to clean any scissors or tools used cut out bad roots to prevent spreading any of the stuff causing the rot any where else.

It looks like it may have travelled up to the middle leaf, if the leaf doesn’t dry out and continues to spread toward the stem, cut off the yellowing/brown part or even the whole leaf with clean scissors.

The darker nubs on the stem are actually roots, so you can propagate from those if you need to. Just cut the stem an inch or so below some of them, let the cut dry a little bit (5-10 minutes), and put it in clean water for a few weeks. Make sure to change the water occasionally.

Pothos are pretty hardy plants, so you don’t really need to rush while working through the roots. I would not put it back in that soil if you find you have a lot of rotting roots. It would be fine for a healthy plant, but yours needs some love (e.g. ignore it once you’ve dealt with the bad parts). If you don’t have any potting soil, you’ll have plenty of time to get some if you’ve already started.

I installed arch back in the day when I was at university. It was neat, but I had classes and needed to be able to get work done and use wifi, so I installed Ubuntu.

I suppose we should all buy some, then.

It’s a hash, not anything encrypted.

You don’t want a lot of people on a confined area with no water. I don’t think it’s about saving water as much as making sure there aren’t 100s of kids in a building with no water.

I recall having a band like that, there were two or three removable sections closest to the watch on each side, those may have been removed already if they aren’t there.

Everyone here is human except for you

You’d probably get better conversations at selfhosted I know some folks there run *bsd network appliances. NASs, firewalls, etc.

The problem was treating her like she’s not just hateful.

They gave her the choice to play the game and pretend she’s not hateful, or just be hateful. She chose the latter.

It’s always nice to know that I don’t have any original thoughts.

Proof: this comment

What helps me is knowing what they are. The strings don’t vibrate in a perfect single wave, the harmonics are already there. If you pluck an open string and briefly touch the string at the 12th fret (half a wavelength), you’re dampening all the harmonics that DON’T have a node at that position, so the full wavelength and thirds are dampened but the 1/2, 1/4, 1/6, etc are left to ring out.

You just hold the pick in a way that your thumb follows and briefly touches against the string at the 1/2, 1/3, 1/6, etc. nodes. You pluck based on the length of the string from the bridge to the fret you’re holding. So if you want to do the 1/3 wavelength, you “cut” the string into thirds and pluck at one of the two nodes such that your thumb “nicks” the string at that node.

A way I used to figure out where those nodes are based on the fret I’m fingering is to lightly rest my thumb on the string, and pluck with another finger (usually ring finger), moving up and down the string until I find one. The node is where your thumb was.

You don’t need to pop it out to DD the SD card, you can do it while it’s running. I like to pipe DD through gzip to get a compressed image as the output so I’m not sitting on 16gb file for 3gb worth of files.

Jokes on you, I’m supposed to be doing stuff.

I’ve had a basic DLNA server running for over 5 years and just set up jellyfin about a month ago and it’s an absolute game changer. It has the functionality of a good streaming service except using your own media. It searches databases and matches it to your files so you get some really good images with the interface and information about the media. Plus it remembers what you’ve watched and how far you are into episodes and movies. Which is perfect if you have two or more TVs or devices you watch on.

It’s changed my partners preferences on how they watch shows. They hated watching anything on my server because they have ADHD and it’s impossible for them to figure out what they were watching and where they were in it, not to mention trying to navigate my lack of organizing anything. Jellyfin fixes that. Now I just plop a show into the shows folder, or a movie in the movie folder and it’s dealt with.

In my experience the jellyfin app on my LG TV works phenomenally. The media app is absolutely horrendous, it takes several minutes to list media files every time a new folder is opened.

Jellyfin has been a game changer specifically in keeping track of what I’ve watched and how far into an episode or movie I am. Everything else is a bonus.

Completely different use cases

The article was written in 2015 stating he’s been receiving pictures for 25 years.