IMO not really. It would be nice, but you’re not doing software RAID or video transcoding. (Or does Plex do that?) I haven’t had experience running Gitlab though.
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Plex is video transcoding.
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So it depends on the optimisations, I guess. More cores will definitely help with transcoding. This laptop I’m using with a 12-core i7 2.7GHz 32G RAM certainly feels a lot faster than the old one with a 4-core i5 2.6GHz 8G RAM, but I can’t vary those parameters individually.
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There appear to be generations between those computers of yours.
I am not sure that we really need the i7 for video transcoding. My partner when recommending these things to others usually says the i5 is fine as long as it is latest generation and the “P” variant rather than “K”
i7 is just extra. But these barebones have no graphics of their own which is fine for work … so the processor will be on its own with the video transcoding. And it has to be 4k … or else someone in the house will be unhappy with the video quality (and it’s not me)
So I guess I have to bite the sour apple. I am miffed because yesterday the i7 variant was still available at the shop I usually frequent and today they don’t have it anymore. And it wasn’t even that great a price. Since I bought the other one a few months back, prices have gone up 20%
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So after some more looking at comparisons… yes the i7 is a little faster but it is the same generation of processor and the value-for-money is far better with the i5. Also weirdly the shop I am looking at… that I have known for a long time for selling computer parts… is selling boardgames for pretty decent prices… and lots of them? I may end up… ordering something alongside the computer stuff oO (edit: I didn’t. I need a clean invoice for tax purposes)
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Google Drive has sers are reporting drives resetting state to what they were in May. No scope of the problem reported yet. Reports include individual and business users.
Not a good way to come back from a long weekend…
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May was pretty good. A fine milestone. If files from May weren’t good enough, you should have thought about that in April. So, really, it’s shame on you for being so complacent in the first quarter.
Google is deteriorating… but i wouldn’t have expected them to have to revert to a half year old back up? wtf? or am i reading that wrong?
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I’m sure it is not a backup, but some distributed storage consistency problem. Will be interesting to see what happens.
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Also gmail for some users.
Smells to me of “something screwed up and we patched over it in too much of a hurry”.
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then it is good that i just went and deleted all my gmail mails the other day.
I only use it as a spam catcher these days.
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So … I have another digital ouch.
TL;DR mixed up 2 hard-drives when installing a new computer, lost some recoverable (probably) data
- I recently acquired a thunderbolt dock for my laptop. After 3 generations of laptops this is the first one that actually works.
- I can even put my external 2TB SSD harddrive that keeps downloaded copies of all my photos from Adobe Lightroom (it is expensive, it is from Adobe and … I still use it) on one of the usb-c ports. It’s really nice. I also keep a few really big Steam Games on there… and I don’t really know what else. We have 2 NAS in the basement and I have gitlab on my server and nextcloud so why store anything but backups of backups there. Well the Bitlocker Key for example for my laptop.
- I bought another NUC to serve as our homeserver. I installed the 32GB RAM and the 1 TB SSD
- So I boot the installer for Ubuntu Server and of course I need all the peripherals so I plug in the Thunderbolt Dock.
- You might be able to see where this is going and it sucks.
- The installer gets to “How do you want to format the harddrive?” and I proceed to mix up the 2TB external disk with the one I should have used.
bye bye data.
I do think there was nothing on there that I would miss because the photos are in the cloud and most of them are also synced to one of the NAS. But redownloading 650gb of photos and the 6 hours I lost figuring out why the NUC wasn’t working properly?
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Oh nooooo! 
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I have run into this issue before with an older usb-c dock that had an internal SD card. I really should know better. I really wasn’t using the external SSD for anything but as instant lightroom backup.
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This morning I failed at cat-flap technology. I locked the upstairs cat-flap and checked it. I locked the downstairs cat-flap in the same way and, in order to make as little noise as possible (because they were nearby where my partner was pretending to prepare them breakfast), I didn’t worry about checking it – because I’d done the same thing as upstairs – and I went to prepare their cages by the front door. When I came back up one of the cats got spooked and headed to the cat-flap. I followed close behind, thinking “ha, this will be easy” as I prepared to scoop him up, only to instead watch him disappear through the cat-flap without any difficulty.
(It worked out in the end, thankfully. This time, at least. His fears were, after all, entirely justified.)
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We have a cat flap in the door to the basement, so the cats can get up and down without having to leave the door open, which blocks my bedroom door. In theory it locks in three positions (in, out, no). In reality, if a cat bangs his head against it enough, it pops open. I discovered this when we had people working in the attic, and locked the cats in the basement. One burst through, ran up the attic stairs, and jumped through the open window onto the roof. Well, we think that is what happened. My wife was in the backyard and looked up and saw a cat on the neighbor’s roof. And thought “that cat looks just like Spirit “.
I was able to get him to come back to the window by rattling his food bowl, and grabbed him by his scruff.
Now, when the cats must be restricted, I tape cardboard over the flap.
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That reminds me of two anecdotes about one of my prior cats:
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He liked to go out on long adventures, so we often half-locked the cat-flap while he was gone so that he could come back in but not then go back outside. That means the cat-flap could freely swing into the house. So sure enough, one day I watched him purposefully pawing at the cat-flap from the inside until he managed to hook a claw in at the edge, lift it inwards, duck underneath the open door, and go outside. He knew what he was doing.
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Him leaping onto the neighbour’s roof. One of the most horrifying moments of my life. He was still just a kitten, but had started going outside, and I was inside watching him through a window as he climbed the fence between our house and the nearby down-hill neighbour’s. Being down-hill (and a steep hill at that), the bottom of their roof was not much higher than the top of the fence, but horizontally it was clearly too far for a kitten to jump, and there was a big drop on the other side of the fence. So I wasn’t initially concerned as he stared at their roof, until he started to shift his head back and forth as if he was genuinely eyeing up the distance. I was still mostly thinking “surely he can’t be seriously considering it…” when I saw him coiling himself with real intent. I was too far from the door to do anything but watch, though, so I got to stare in horror as he launched himself across the gap, didn’t quite make it, somehow clung on to the guttering with his front paws, dangled from said guttering above the aforementioned large drop for what seemed like forever, managed to get his back legs up, and finally went exploring. (Not that he could figure out how to get down when he was done – I ended up having to take a ladder over there to retrieve him. I don’t think he ever did that again, mind; even when he was fully grown.)
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I saw a video recently of a cat trying to jump from the top of stairs to a roof, almost making it, falling down 10 or 15 feet, and then doing it again. and a third time.
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Like my then 8 year old son who climbed into his classroom ceiling and then fell when trying to climb down. He continues to climb, as if possessed with a need to surpass his former achievement.
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