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  • over_clox@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldTape drive backups
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    2 days ago

    Tapes can have long term issues in storage, as the tape reel winds will eventually start to bleed over magnetic signals from one wind to the next.

    In analog world, they call it tape hiss. In digital world, with good error correction, it can last a long time, but is still ultimately prone to data corruption, eventually…

    I recommend a video surveillance rated multi terabyte hard drive, they’re designed to run 24/7. I have two 4TB Seagate Skyhawks.








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    4 days ago

    LOL, I actually managed to do this with a broken spacebar. Half the bar was missing, so I took a completely different model scrap keyboard that was water damaged, carefully cut the spacebar in half, secured that with the original half with a couple paper clips and epoxy, and somehow even managed to make the stabilizer bar underneath line up and work.

    Hey, if it looks stupid but works, it’s not stupid. 👍




  • Now you know where the camera is, just hold your hand over your face long enough to put a piece of electrical tape over it.

    If you’re worried you’ll get in trouble, just remove the tape as you leave. If you actually do get in trouble, protest that it’s your right to privacy, and you’ve done no damage to the equipment.

    Or just take a laser or mini torch to the camera, that’s up to you, I won’t tell…




  • There was a certain type of perfume that seemed popular back in the 90s, that would make me instantly gag and almost puke within seconds. I have no clue how anyone found that as any sort of pleasant smell.

    To me I thought it smelled like a woman with a nasty yeast infection, trying to cover it up with potpourri. But it wasn’t even the women’s health causing it, literal potpourri smell alone causes me the same gag reflex, the stuff just smells nasty to me and I can’t be in the same room as that smell for long.

    So yes, there are reasons to be offended by particular scents, even if others somehow find them pleasant.





  • Our park is mostly a water park for kids at the front, with a couple pavilions, and a boat ramp and senior citizen center in the back. So yes, it’s not an official dog park, but unofficial its accepted as one by pretty much everyone.

    We keep him on the leash when there’s lots of people or other dogs around, but on days when the park is practically empty, we let him roam free and burn his calories.

    He was abandoned for like 5 months out at the park before we decided to adopt him, so most regular park visitors already know him. Police officers approve, they even helped us adopt him.

    He’s a medium size dog, and mostly chill, just sometimes playful. He’s never hurt anyone.

    Of course that’s not true for all dogs though, hence why we’re very careful regarding what sort of days we might let him roam around off the leash.


  • Even though the woman proved to be a Karen, the cashiers working the store that day totally understood why I was upset. If only they had or enacted a policy of don’t consume any products in the store

    As far as the dog on the leash thing, we’re about 99% in favor of that, only exception being when we take our dog out to our city park, where we adopted him from as abandoned.

    Brownie knows every inch of the park and I feel it would be wrong to not let him roam free occasionally when there’s not many people or other animals around. Those sort of days are few and far between though, so 99% of the time he’s on the leash.