These days I try to do both, but recognize it’s an on-going thing that will never be done.
Sometimes folder structure can be a challenge because of extensive metadata. Where do parts of a compilation go, for example. At least with metadata, music players can show the tracks correctly.
Plus if they’re links, how many still work?
You understand the value of risk management.
Nah, it’s 2 different things.
I could add pictures in the shopping list app, I just don’t want them there.
Instead I slowly took pictures of everything I own. And when something new comes in, I take a pic of that. I have a folder for inventory photos.
Those photos are only a just-in-case for insurance.
I don’t use voice anyway - everything I do is through an app.
Check out jmp.chat - they route everything, your voice calls and SMS, through XMPP. So voice calls are VOIP. I don’t even have conventional voice service with them.
There’s also the insurance angle.
Heaven forbid you have a fire or flood from a water line break. Insurance companies aren’t your friend and will shaft you if they can - I’ve seen it happen with friends.
So now I have an inventory (and pictures). I have about 4x the stuff in my place than the average person in a house this size, so the defaults from insurance would make me lose lots of money. Once they see an exported spreadsheet with counts and dates (plus the pictures), they’ll cut a check and not argue.
Plus the inventory helps me keep track of what I have so I don’t buy it again.
I have 800+ items in my home inventory list. Lots of different tools, household stuff, seasonal, and cooking stuff.
I used to be able to keep track just by having a few containers, but then I started forgetting what container something was in.
Now containers are labelled with a container name and list of what’s in it, my inventory app (just a shopping list app) indicates the container name.
Edit: You’d be surprised how much stuff you actually have until you start inventorying it. It’s a tedious task.
Just verifying, after enabling subnet routing, did you create the routes (it’s in the docs for subnet router).
I have the same problem you do - for some reason TS will “steal” the route, even when correctly configured.
Drives only consume power on reads and writes, if your NAS spins them down as it should (and apparently QNAP *doesn’t, which I didn’t know).
As per my other comment - 8 drives or 1 drive, same idle power for desktop hardware. My actual NAS uses about 1/8 the power at idle for 5 drives.
Power isn’t from drives, if your OS spins them down (as any NAS solution should).
Wow, QNAPS don’t spin down disks? Geez, what a crappy design choice. Thanks for that tidbit, I was considering one for my next NAS.
In my experience using a PC as a NAS, the power draw isn’t necessarily the drives as they spin down when idle.
I have an old desktop setup as NAS - with 2 drives or eight drives, idle power draw is virtually the same, about 100w, regardless of the OS (Windows, Linux, UnRAID, Proxmox).
I also have an old consumer NAS, with five 4TB drives, and it idles under 20w (I think last I checked it was ~15w… I need to check it again and write that down).
Two very similar systems, one designed to be a NAS, the other a desktop. It really comes down to the motherboard design and capabilities.
I also have a Dell SFF that idles at about 15w, regardless of drive count - one drive or four (and to get four I added a SATA expansion card and rigged some power splitters, really pushing the power supply). That box idling the same, even when pushed well past design, is pretty telling.
And don’t think that SSD drives would do better - spinning disk drives generally have far better idle power than SSD does, and usually much better write power consumption.
So it really depends, and mostly on the motherboard itself. Yes, you’ll get more power usage with more drives, but that’s at write and read time. My SFF idles at 12w, peaks at 80w when converting videos, the read/write power is negligible, same with the NAS (I transfer hundreds of gigs between them every few days).
FYI, Tailscale has the Funnel feature, so you can access your TS network without a client. Check it out.
If you’re self hosting, why use anything Google?
I don’t use Google apps, my calendar apps aren’t even on Play, and don’t use any Google processes.
Why would one be willing to sink hours!
I think you misunderstand the word “self” :
noun
plural selves
a person or thing referred to with respect to complete individuality:
one’s own self.
a person’s nature, character, etc.:
his better self.
personal interest.
Philosophy:
the ego; that which knows, remembers, desires, suffers, etc., as contrasted with that known, remembered, etc.
the uniting principle, as a soul, underlying all subjective experience
Sounds to me like you’re more interested in the ego portion of self.
I’ve spent years doing things for myself, my friends, my family, not from ego, but because I believe the things I’ve done are important (either to me or to my friends/family), and that I’m the person that can do those things.
And if anyone else has found what I’ve done to be useful, then I’m pleased to find that so, and consider it my little bit of contributing to the world, and making someone else’s life a little easier. I don’t need to know this from anyone, I’m just glad if it’s happened.
Yea, gotta be something odd with your setup.
Currently I have one phone (of several) thats syncing en excess of 10,000 files, some only on Wifi (with 3 access points), some wifi/cell data.
ST knows the state of a file, so a disconnect should have no effect. If you’re getting corrupted files, I wonder if something else is going on which may also affect another sync tool.
Try Resilio for the same folders, see if you have the same problem (disable Syncthing of course, otherwise conflicting edits will cause file corruption).
Syncthing runs encrypted anyway.
Exactly.
Honesty and transparency go a long way. If we know what’s going on, we can choose to help if we have time (say it’s for a portfolio).