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I mean, I don’t know your use case, but as a self-hoster/ research scientist, I think my usage is much much. And I do rely on mine for business, as my wife and I both rely on it for hosting our data, which for me is large geospatial datasets, and when I’m doing large compute runs, there are many many read writes. We also store a large amount of music/ videos for streaming and running a jelly fin server. Thats been fine as well. I think since in our case we don’t have a ton of people hitting the server at once, its just never as stressed as it might be in a corporate/ multi user environment.
No issues what’s so ever. Have them in a four drivE QNAS. I was a bit concerned about them being cheaper drives initially but after I got them installed I literally haven’t thought about them again in terms of reliability.
0 complaints and they seem to be doing about as well as some more expensive drives might be.
I asked ai to give me an image for a super hero for the fediverse and got this:
Honestly, it seems like a federated solution is in order, since this seems to be the most effective way we can have content on the internet that isn’t ‘owned’. Its not a perfect solution, but I completly commiserate with your issue. I’ve come across reddit threads for arcane GIS or programming issues and found the comments deleted.
Its only a matter of time before the walls go up around stack overflow and github. We should be thinking about the future and what its going to take to maintain an open and accessible web. A bit part of that is having the tools and resources available to learn. Theres a generation of learning that has the potential to be lost because some one ‘owns’ it.
Some other considerations. Most platforms as a resources ‘work’ because they’ve reached some critical mass. Focusing on niche programming tasks or languages and building a small but robust community is more effective than trying to go very wide, but very shallow. Compare the success of the programming communities here . Most are empty. Most have no posts and no activities. But that’s because we’re conditioned to the granularity an extant critical mass supports. Instead, just like you are doing, you can post to more general communities like this one.
There is also the strategy of focusing on more ‘diy’/ self supported projects that are based in open source. For example, QGIS, I think belongs on the fediverse. They are a phenomenal project and embody that open and free spirit.
You wouldn’t download a website, would you?
If you were going to do somehthing like this, you might also consider doing it on some kind of version control. You might want something that does update regularly (like a wiki), but if they ever try and paywall it, you’ve got a copy.
Should be something you could knock out in python in an afternoon.
I’ve used it around the house to make copies of the light switches (they are small battery operated radios.)
I’ve also used it to clone my car fab as a backup.
I’ve found out what my neighbors are doing that is radio controlled. Some times I just scan for packets and try and decrypt them.
I’ve used it to get the full metadata on my pets RFID tags. I now have full records for all my pets.
I’ve used it in a gimmicky way to get my credit card information, and I’ve considered using it for payment, but havent’ tried yet.
Honestly, its a great tool to have. Its a swiss army knife for radio signals. I’m mostly concerned with leveling up my dolphin though.
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