Maybe you should check 5hat again. I never used llm before 2025, but proved itself useful for a few tasks. Yes check and verification still needed, but indeed made my life easier and got taken done faster. Quality was still a good as what I could do myself. Maybe that doesn’t speak well of myself I don’t know.

While you are correct, as all tools AI is not bad per se.

If you use ai to replace more lengthy documentation searches and write your own code that works out pretty well and speed up your work without degrading your coding. Granted, I got plainly incorrect answers as well, but at least I managed to be much more efficient.

Treat LLMs/ai as a glorified documentation aggregator and that’s how you correctly use that tool.

Like, use a knife to cut and cook meat, not to cut another person body, and that’s how you correctly use that tool too.

I run a setup very similar for many years. Upgraded progressively from 2x120GB to 4x4Tb, from mechanicals to sdds.

I can say don’t cheap out on the usb enclosures, the more you pay the better it is. I purchased a 4 bay JBOD usb3 box with a fan (150€+ nowadays) and that is the only enclosure that really worked out and still works (but retired) today. All single disk enclosures will fail sooner or later depending on how cheap they are, just take that onto consideration.

The setup itself is pretty good and stable, I would suggest standard Linux MDRaid 1, and on top of that something simple like ext4. I wouldn’t put anything that adds to the disk workloads like zfs, but maybe I am wrong.

Speed wise, I was able to stream movies without any hiccups, and that’s plenty I think.

Do not cheap out on the enclosures. Cheap ones will last 1 month, I don’t kid you.

And keep them cool… Fan… Air circulation… USB controllers will be killed faster than mechanical disks by heat. And 24/7 will generate heat… Those enclosures are not built for that…

Again, it’s pretty doable and I did it for almost 2 decades. DONT BE CHEAP ON ENCLOSURES (did I say so already?) And you should be fine.

Does it means you use only FreeBSD and dumbphones?

If you don’t want to use postgresql for some obscure reason use MariaDB real open source MySQL drop in replacement.

This.

That’s why temping obscurity for security is not a good idea. Doesn’t take much to be “safe”, at least reasonably safe. But that not much its good practice to be done :)

My server has 48gb ram and in top Lemmy doesn’t appear even in the 0.1% memory usage.

Disk space 10gb, CPU/ram not noticeable on my server (lots of other services using more than Lemmy).

I think it’s been up about one year. One user but I subscribe to all communities I find remotely interesting.

Running “my” own single user instance here.

Great! Love it! The whole idea.

Agree on the handpicking yes. Nothing bad in reposting content, but mass posting just drowns communities and doesn’t generate engagement.

No thank you. Just leeching content from reddit will never get Lemmy anywhere.

I blocked all content reposted from Lemmy (there was an instance dedicated to that iirc).

First of all, posts without comments are pointless. Interaction and comments is what grows Lemmy. Second, bot posts are not well received by most here I think.

I can see it useful only as a “reddit backup” of kind, in case the platform goes offline for good and all that is lost.

I would worry for the level of moderation required to filter shitty / ai / bots etc.

Well, that’s true of most internet. Luckly, internet Is not (yet) real life.

I am not american and frankly find American style polemics quite hard to understand. Mind me I have quite a few american good friends, and I lived in the USA for a few years too, nothing against USA itself.

But yes Tolerance is at the base of civil life and that’s true even with intolerant people.

How does the Lemmy creators actually personally benefit from the fact I run my own Lemmy instance?

I do not donate to them, but how is the technology created be them evil if it fits my concept of decentralized web?

Do they get money because I run my instance o use another one not under their control? O doubt it

I am actually using their tech against themselves, so what?

Maybe the fact I am not a native speaker affect how my words are understood.

Actually yes fascist and communist are two ends of the spectrum, I have no idea what tankies means, it seems to be some slang or jargon.

But no, why would using lemmy means people from Lemmy.ml controlling what we read? That’s totally bonkers.

And you seems to be from a non US instance, it might be related to the fact you seems to be the only agreeing with me.

But yes, at the end the concept it the technology should not be judged by the political views of the creator.

I also agree with not supporting it finacially if that money goes where you don’t like.

I really don’t like this dangerous trend of condemning actions of people based on wether we agree with them or disagree with them.

Because this behavior is at the base for intolerance and strong polarization.

First of all, I want to judge your actions for what they are, not for what your political views are. So Lemmy is good and I like that full stop. There will be better alternatives (maybe already are) and I will judge them without agreeing with their creators political views.

Second, I prefer to discuss and interact with people who have different views and political ideas than me, because that’s where I grow my ideas and enforce or dispute them. Enough of the echo chamber where the “algorithm” already places us in every social fucking media.

Kids, it’s by enforcing and supporting even the ideas contrary to yours that you grow up. Yes this is annoying and can cause serious brain engagement, but yeah, that’s how we progress.

Even fascists or communist ideas. Zionist or pro-Palestine, pro gender or anti woke, if we start judging peoples actions only for their ideas we become fascists.

I was also tought that what you do is more significant than what you say. Judge by actions, not words.

So I don’t dislike technology because the guy behind it is a fascist or a communist.

Said so, if anybody thinks that can do a better Lemmy by forking it, go ahead and let me judged by the actions.

I use endurain but mostly to backup my Garmin activities.

It’s nice, lots of development and efforts and very polished.

Love ha.

I suggest to purchase a home assistant gren device as its really well done and super stable. I moved to one of those after hosting ha on many different devices over time, and would not go back.

You also support the project, which is cool.

SAS drives tends to be top quality server stuff… I would keep them until the break then replace with cheaper sata.

Unless you need something less power hungry (SSSs?) or less noisy.

Also keep the hardware raid, why not. You should be able to remove the raid inside its bios and see the four disks individually.