They have over-pressure vents and will vent pretty violently and catch fire, but should not explode due to pressure build up.

Duplicati or BackRest and use any S3 compatible storage such as Backblaze B2, iDrive E2, Wasabi S3, etc…

I thought about an upgrade for a minute from my 3700X, but I realized none of the games I play or programs I use are demanding on CPU enough that it would make any real difference in my experience.

Games have kind of stalled out for me too, I haven’t played a AAA game in years it feels like, and the other games I do play are not that demanding on modern hardware.

I would also need to upgrade to DDR5 RAM which is just more cost for a marginal upgrade.

Looks like around 4Mbps link speed, so great for sensors and remote monitoring/controls and that kind of thing.

Sort of in between LoRa and normal Wifi.

Garage definitely seems better suited for selfhosters and small setups, Minio is just so large and complex with specific requirements now.

Yeah that’s fair.

Common cloud storage such as google drive should be pretty resilient for the average person, data stored there is replicated in multiple data centers and verified with checksums, and it provides a trashcan and versioning in case of accidental deletion.

Good backup software will just do that as part of its thing, like Restic for example.

That’s why you have 2, there’s no solution for long term storage that requires zero checking on things that I can think of.

Like, what technology normal person has access to counts at least as enthusiast level archival?

Cloud storage? Store it on 2 different providers like B2 and iDrive or something, pretty low complexity.

It does but it’s a bit of a weird way of doing things.

You shouldn’t have the do anything specific at all, local network stuff works without internet and Jellyfin doesn’t rely on any internet servers like Plex does for authentication.

There isn’t a full alternative, but if you just want text chat with some voice chat added on there are options like Matrix.

How would I join a community without knowing anyone with that setup?

No ads on YT with Firefox + uBlock, not sure why your setup isn’t working.

What’s the alternative though, we have Chrome and Firefox as choices. Chrome is far worse than some issues with Firefox around CEO pay.

It’s a public site that’ll be backed up regularly, what kind of important data would you be putting out publicly?

Yeah they get a lot of users due to the free plans they offer, so I imagine there’s just a lot of reviews as a result, both good and bad.

Also due to the free plan and being commonly used by home lab groups or small businesses, I think there are a lot of users that don’t fully understand what they’re getting into with CF and may be upset when they find out later on.

If you follow their ToS and understand what cloudflares proxy is doing to your traffic then it all works just fine.

I imagine trustpilot is where people go to vent about bad service because it’ll come up when you search for cloudflare reviews.

Yeah and gas stations often have an employee and cameras around which probably makes theft occurrences less likely compared to a charging station that has no one around and likely no dedicated cameras in place.

I wonder how they think that’s possible, the attempts I’ve made at having an “AI” produce working code have failed spectacularly.