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  • Andi@feddit.uktoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    1 year ago

    To counter my own “easy to migrate” argument, DietPi includes a backup utility called ‘dietpi-backup’ (genius naming convention, I know!) which you can use to backup your whole system to another drive. And of course restore your whole setup on a clean install.

    Also very useful for rollbacks if needed. I have a 2.5in 5400rpm 1TB drive attached to my DietPi server which is just for backups - it backs up every night at 2am and it’s incremental too. I have 5 days of backups and it’s one command and a couple of ‘Enters’ to get it rolling back to an earlier config - really easy and useful when a recent kernel update broke my ethernet adapter (Debian’s fault - not DietPi!).

  • Andi@feddit.uktoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    1 year ago

    The biggest advantage for docker in the “home lab” environment is to be able to try out an app, but if you decide you don’t like it, removal is simply deleting the container and the data folder. That’s it. No trace left.

    Sadly you can’t say that for installed apps.

    But I agree, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Seems DietPi will be right up your street and look after things exactly how you want, simply 😁

  • Andi@feddit.uktoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    1 year ago

    Originally it was for the Pi, but can also be installed on x64 PC systems, either UEFI or BIOS, so basically runs on anything. It does run great on a Pi, it’s biggest advantage being that it logs to RAM, which massively saves on SD card wear. It’s also the only current distro which works reliably on the original Pi 1 nowadays (if you still have those hanging around!)

    And I get that everyone saying “Docker!” is a bit boring, but there is a reason for it - containerising everything does make it a lot easier to manage and migrate everything to another system or revert back a single component to a different version. And you just backup a config file and your data folder for each container and you can recreate your system so easily. If you install directly, you have to worry about databases, file paths, permissions… but as you said, there’s nothing wrong with just installing stuff. Especially if it’s only a few programs.

    I run 26 docker containers. Installing all those on a system would be a mess…

  • Andi@feddit.uktoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    1 year ago

    I’ll add my vote as it’s not been mentioned: DietPi - based on Debian (since the majority are recommending that) and has a really easy “one click” menu system to install apps (of which include Jellyfin, Plex). And a built in updater to keep everything up to date. And it’ll install on pretty much anything (SBCs, new PCs, old PCs, VMs).

    No need to use docker, it installs everything directly, though it does support it if you want to go down that route.

    Or, DietPi with CasaOS which is a web interface and app store for docker installations.

    Lastly, Plex have their own guide on what you need to copy to move your Plex data from one system to another: https://support.plex.tv/articles/201370363-move-an-install-to-another-system/

  • Andi@feddit.uktoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Help needed: Immich digital picture frameEnglish
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    2 years ago

    If the old tablet is Android, Fotoo is perfect. Yes it costs, but one off fee and worth it. Can pull from so many different sources.

    Personally, I still use Google Photos. Both my wife and I have us, the kids and pets all autotagged into an album for all the pictures taken on our phones and Fotoo randomly shows these on the Nexus 7 tablet I have taped into a wooden frame.

  • Andi@feddit.uktoMemes@lemmy.ml•No pilot school for you.
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    2 years ago

    Colourblind isn’t the complete absense of colour, e.g. everything looks black and white. With deuteranomaly, you are the actual textbook definition of colourblindness… There are different levels of it, but all can still perceive colour - it’s just whether the difference in colour of the spectrum is detected correctly.

    Deuteranomaly (/ie) is the reduction in reactivity of the red-colour receptors. That means your perception of orange/red/brown is less than those with normal vision.

    For those with normal vision, this is a great chart. But, if you’re colourblind, it’ll be more confusing for you, sorry!

  • Andi@feddit.uktoAndroid@lemmy.world•How does everyone feel about Samsung phones?English
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    2 years ago

    You misunderstood. The US is <10% of Samsung phone sales globally (I found retail sales online for their handset sales per country) . And they will know the stats of which of those phones ever used the magstripe feature. An educated guess of <1% of global users activating the mag stripe feature is a feature they can afford to cut, especially if it saves on cost.

  • Andi@feddit.uktoAndroid@lemmy.world•How does everyone feel about Samsung phones?English
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    2 years ago

    Re. the Mag-Stripe. Bare in mind the US is <10% of the market for the Samsung phones. And then you’d need to break down of the Samsung phones sold in North America - how many of those were S-series vs. the others which don’t support the mag-stripe. Even if 50-50, that’s now <5% of phones which have mag-stripe support in a country that uses it. Then rough guess of 20% of users actually pay by phone? You’re now <1%. A small pale blue dot in the vast cosmic arena…

    SD cards - there’s also the point of user data security. Data stored on an SD card can’t be easily guarenteed safe by Knox. Yes, you can encrypt it, but remove that SD card and the card itself can’t protect the data from brute forcing encyption keys.

  • Andi@feddit.uktoAndroid@lemmy.world•How does everyone feel about Samsung phones?
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    2 years ago

    The other issues with SD card is security. Your data isn’t safely tucked away, controlled by Knox if it’s on a SD card which can be removed. And ‘letting the user choose’ just means that there needs to be configuration and extra options in firmware, which leads to backdoors and workarounds and a higher chance of comprimsed user data. (When they’re not just stealing it off your device and selling it anyway…).

  • Andi@feddit.uktoAndroid@lemmy.world•How does everyone feel about Samsung phones?English
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    2 years ago

    I’m going to jump to Samsung’s defense here as I think your anti-consumer belief is misguided:

    • the SD card has been drifting away from most Android phones for the core reason of reliability. Data stored on SD cards is not at reliable and when apps are forced to run off the SD card, there are side effects and crashes which are nightmares for devs. When a non brand SD card loses a user’s data, the user blamed the phone manufacturer, which is akin to putting the wrong fuel in your car and then blaming the car manufacturer that your car won’t go.
    • mag-stripe. Considering they are a Korean company, I don’t blame them for dropping a complex feature used by a select few in the US. Because the US is the only country left that thinks the ancient technology of the magnetic stripe is still a good medium for the transfer of your bank details. Contact-less paymemt is now pretty much standard everywhere else and is so much more secure and standardised. The range and reliability of the contact-less payment has increased massively for me on the S23 in comparison to the S20 which was also lumbered with magstipe support.
    • dilution of features? Again, why should it be more complicated? A larger phone can incorporate more lenses, screen and battery, but the core features and benefits should be the same to make the choice simpler for the consumer. Advertising of the range is simpler also.

    Each to their own but these are just my views based on 11 years in the mobile phone retail business.