I can confirm that moving the disks to a very similar device will work.

We recovered “enough” data from what disks remained of a Dell server that was dropped (PSU side down) from a crane. The server was destroyed, most of the disks had moved further inside the disk caddy which protected them a little more.

It was fun to struggle with that one for ~1 week

And the noise from the drives…

I have rooftop solar, but only for the house because I can’t reach my car to charge it in the street.

The car sits outside for days (I work from home), so in my case this would be great.

This is the 1st I’ve seen of this car, so haven’t read any other details, but I’d be surprised if external charging wasn’t possible.

Am I the only one questioning the spelling of “tyre“?

And apparently monkey is only the 6th password attempt to try:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_the_most_common_passwords&action=edit&section=3

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I don’t have any evidence to backup my statement, but for my usecase (Linux booting troubleshooting toolkit) Kingston sticks last a fair while (~10 years), but Sandisk fail sooner (<5years?)

The main thing I’ve noticed for all brands: there’s no warning before failure. They’re like nicad batteries… all good, then one day - completely dead. So never keep any data on them that you can’t lose.

Good point about the default video source. I had to use “hotel mode” on 1 TV to get that to work… I’ll check what this one does

thanks

Wha?! I didn’t know this was happening… Damn, that was my solution to multiple applications

I think they should consider the word “wages” instead.

Let’s be honest, this is compensation for skilled labour.

Yeah, that was me a couple years ago… I’d read some blogs, watched some yoochoobz and had data going from my NAS to Backblaze… encrypted…so… ok… is it restorable? No idea.

I think the main thing is for you to try doing a test restore of your data before you need to (and you already have a local backup anyway if your test goes wrong)

That will give you a better understanding of the whole process - they might be 100% reliable in storing data which is totally unusable by you because you’ve lost your decryption key, weren’t backing it up correctly, etc (for example).

Yeah, good summary - I’m not using the latest version, but LiveTV channel changing still takes a second (on a dual tuner machine), but, like you said, we rarely watch LiveTV now and if we do, we’re not really channel hopping either.

How well doea the NUC perform as a Frontend? I have a small TV in a spare room which could benefit from a separate Frontend…

I think Myth can record from the homerun boxes?

I’m lucky the OTA scheduling works well enough for me - only issue is that I can only see a few days ahead.

Ah, ok, you’re a bit of a contributor… I helped with a couple of patches and loads of wiki edits (that needed much love a few years ago)

TVDb is still hit & miss, but much better than it used to be.

And yeah, Myth’s not ideal for external streaming…

Yeah, I was kinda thinking about a combined Myth Backend / *arr box and then see whether Myth Frontend or Jellyfin worked “better” (for my use case)… just need a spare weekend to try it all out.

Not heard of Tablo… I’ll take a look

Yeah, Myth’s built-in internet browser is pretty dire - I have a 2nd virtual desktop to open a browser if I want to watch something via the internet, but I don’t bother with Netflix, etc…

No. Maybe it is where you’re located, but for me it’s fine.

Movies come from the high seas, so I’m not too worried about them, but there’s some good stuff on terestrial TV definitely

Maybe not a docker solution, but you could throw pfSense into a VM and do all that from there

I use it (as it’s intended) as my firewall, but I used to use these as general purpose network security VMs in the past (just because I know the product well)

So for you: no firewall rules, just setup DNS with pfBlocker (for the advert blocking) and setup the VPN as required…

Just an idea…