Does the increased density mean that the speed also goes up? It would be nice if a 7200 RPM drive could finally saturate SATA3 bandwidth.

Virtual Machine

Ha, I wish! It’s H&R Block. But it works offline, I can download update files, and I’m not forced to online filing.

Unfortunately, seems that tax software is too complex for enthusiasts to start an open source project. And big tax filing corpos has no incentive to go open source.

My big win (in the making) is that I’m going to file my taxes completely offline. Working on the documents in isolated VM, using tax software offline, and sending paper forms wherever I can. Unfortunately New York state is not accepting paper forms, as far as I know…

I’m running one Pi-hole, but not on RPi. One is an LXC container on my Proxmox host, another is on dedicated Dell Wyse thin client box.

People are free to whore out themselves

It’s been my obsession for a while! It even starts to feel like a disorder sometimes as I’m struggling to find an ideal solution…

I ended up centralizing my most important data (family media files and personal documents) in Nextcloud. This data is backed up with Duplicacy - 1 copy to local NAS and another to Wasabi S3 bucket.

I also use Duplicacy to backup various Docker volumes of the stuff I run at home and my main PC home directory.

Apart from that, I use Time Machine for Macs with an SMB share on NAS. And Proxmox Backup Server backs up everything which is not in Docker to another NAS share. These backups are replicated with HyperBackup (Synology app) to Wasabi S3.

Okay, thanks! I think I should try it then

I probably don’t know enough about sandboxing in GrapheneOS. So if you do that, you still have to log in with Google account, but Google will be able to only see what you are doing with play store apps? And the rest of data like sensors, file system, other apps, will not be visible to Play Services?

I’ve been thinking about this for a while. I have Pixel 7, so GrapheneOS is an easy choice. But I have a few paid subscription apps via Play Store, and I don’t want to get rid of them… Maybe I could ditch some, but not all.

Not sure how many services can be hosted in that way and remain useful. But it’s an interesting idea overall! For myself, I could run a Git forge on local PC. Since I’m the only user, and I just keep my scripts there, it is fine not to run 24/7.