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Cake day: April 9th, 2024

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  • Oh matey. I literally just went through this and debated putting together a blog post or similar.

    I’m not at my computer so I’m typing this from my phone.

    The TL;DR: you need to decide whether you’ll pay for the security by paying for restore upfront, or when you need it.

    Since I yarr most of if not all my content, I did not worry about backing up my TV shows or movies. I take a directory listing of my jellyfin and back that up weekly. Music is small enough that I do back this up.

    Cloud cost is abstract and hard to compare apples to apples. But the biggest thing you’ll need to decide is how likely will you need to do a cloud restore. The more robust your on-prem backups the less likely you’ll need them so I personally went with AWS S3 using rclone. Glacier cold storage is super cheap and for my needs I’m paying roughly $2-3 a month. The catch is if I need a restore, I’ll have to pay for the S3 retrieval and then the egress which can be roughly $60 one time.

    For companies like Backblaze, you pay roughly $60 annual for about 2TB of hot storage, which includes egress 3 times.

    I prefer to save the $40 difference year over year, and instead put that in a budget for a break-glass situation.

    In terms of hardware, some people recommend buying different brands with the same storage size. Others recommend spacing out your hard drive purchases so that they don’t all fail at the same time. I prefer the latter.

    Hope that points you in the right direction












  • Many of his early recipes were actually direct copies of recipes from America Test Kitchen. Many word for word.

    So it’s even extra shitty that he put his recipes behind a paywall because most of ATK’s recipes are available for free. (But buy their books! They are very good)

    IMO, cookbooks are in a different category. While yes their recipes are copyright free, the organization by theme is worth their cost. When I was in college, I bought a Betty Crocker “5 ingredients 30 minutes” cookbook which is awesome for someone who is learning to cook. As I’ve developed skills I’ve gravitated toward cookbooks that teach the fundamentals and science of cooking that help explain what’s happening.


  • Thank you for this post and encouragement. I am open to volunteering my time and talents to help people find Lemmy.

    However, after the work is done, it would be fantastic if you all could invest in advertising. I know that Google and Bing aren’t great but if I had to guess, search trend for “reddit alternatives” is probably rising and Lemmy is in a great spot to provide reddit refuges a life raft.


  • I would call them “starter” instances. And I’m in agreement there should be a set of principles that these instances should follow but at the same time telling new users that it’s okay to switch instances. I started in .world but moved due to their increasingly conservative changes.

    While I personally would steer new users away from .world, I think it’s more important to tell them it’s okay to switch instances.