originalucifer

just checked, i paid ‘frugal usenet’ 35$/year… bit more than i remember at just under 3.00/month.

thats scented sticker money

ha yeah… its my own reddit hate-boner in the shape of a public fediverse instance

sure but usenet access is stupidly cheap. i think im payin like 1$/month.

i spend more on stickers.

youll have the best luck by adding a nzb indexer… ive enjoyed nzbgeek

its cheap and has decreased my time-to-mediacenter drastically… the public torrent indexers kinda pale in comparison.

i like to have them all in there, but the usenet/nzb stuff seems to flow the fastest as theres generally more likely a matching file of %quality.

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entire nas (~24TB used) is replicated to another nas in another building (2 actually). i like having 3 copies.

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deep pockets? im suckin up ~25GB/month… and im not even kind of getting everything.

traffic volume is already a serious consideration, but theroetically its what you request. its not like an instance comes up and suddenly needs to interact with 500 other servers.

if you on your personal instance decide you need to subscribe to thousands of communities on thousands of servers… isnt that kinda on you? i mean… how could you personally ever expect to consume that volume?

if youre on a community instance and the instance itself is drawing a metric fuckton of traffic… scale up. the good platforms will scale.

that said, ive kinda tried to sub to every server i can find just for giggles… it ‘pre-loads’ the content on my instant for new users in the ‘newest’ queues.

there are mitigations you can put in place for rate-limiting other servers also… your server would just fall farther and farther behind

personally, i think it scales better than other options. bluesky doesnt scale at all

notepad++

i used to use ‘media elch’ before i figured out the 'arrs.

vnc

Bb would be ~300$/month for 50tb

ha, theres an entire instance dedicate to this process besides all the github bot scripts… this is nothing new here.

maybe make sure and throw the bot flag so people can filter accordingly

kinda smells like truenas with its datasets

i feel like you may not really understand how basic the average user is.

for example, most have never even been near people who know what tor is. and as the technical-info proxy for an absurd number of humans the number of people asking me how to be ‘uncensored’ on the internet is zero. its fucking zero.

i spose…

my anecdote;

ive been runnin drives like this for 30 years. ive literally never had a cold storage drive go bad out of the case… mostly because their hourly use rate is kept so incredibly low. even back in the day of very unreliable drives…

they even retain their data better than modern ssds

3 methods for me…

1. (daily) live nas backup (I have 2 of these mirrored for giggles)
2. (90 days) cold, manual copy of nas data to drive stored in pelican case
3. (live) cheap cloud storage of essential data in backblaze encrypted vault (duplicati)

yep. just recently interviewed to get out of this horrifying shame spiral. goin back to something more… visceral.

all i can see are human processes being replaced by more reliable automated ones, and the compute required or provided for those isnt going to just disappear because some us-euro-centric valuation bubble.

its a service domain available on every continent and its being successfully and financially beneficially implemented in thousands of ways most people just dont understand.

there is money being made, but the false valuation is masking the reality.

is it over valued in most sectors? fuck yeah. is use of llms/ai or the building of data centers around the globe going to stop anytime in the next few decades? fuck no.

so will there be a financial bubble burst where lots of ai players lose out big time? maybe. will that affect the use of ai/llms in absolutely any capacity? fuck no. it would keep chuggin along with new owners.