https://hackaday.com/2025/07/09/crunching-the-news-for-fun-and-little-profit/

You can run Windows 9 on an iPhone 9.

I was excited to learn that homeassistant lets me bypass the atrocious Sonos app for controlling all my speakers from various music sources.

Though at the same time, I’m little disappointed that offTikTok is broken.

WARNING

The docker-down.sh script associated with offtiktok runs a docker prune -f and will delete any unused docker containers you have without warning.

Wow, this is exactly what I was looking for!

Man, how did you find that? I wasn’t getting anything on ddg.

Anywho, looks a little buggy (it doesn’t seem to deal with website credentials, so I’m not sure how it ever worked), but it’s got the bones to do what I want to do. Thanks for the link.

Edit: Fixed it! https://github.com/patchy-oss/fwdl/pull/1

I’ve been running plex for a few years no. No real issues to complain of.

Until today. I just upgraded my server with an Intel ARC. Was looking forward to enabling qsv for streaming. Turns out you need plex pass to do that.

Can jellyfin do it?

Thanks for the tips. I’ll definitely at least start with mdadm since that’s what I’ve already got running, and I’ve got enough other stuff to worry about.

Are you worried at all about bit rot? I hear that’s one drawback of mdadm or raid vs. zfs.

Also, any word on when photoprism will support the Coral TPU? I’ve got one of those and haven’t found much use for it.

Very good to know! Thanks.

Where I’ve landed now is

A) just migrate everything over so I can continue working. B) Migrate my mdadm to ZFS C) Buy another NVME down the road and configure it with the onboard RAID controller to prevent any sudden system downtime. D) Configure nightly backups of anything of import on the NVME RAID to the ZFS pool. E) Configure nightly snapshots of the ZFS pool to another webserver on-site. F) rsync the ZFS pool to cold storage every six months and store off-site.

Yeah, I wouldn’t dare.

The fact that I migrated from a 3 drive to 6 drive mdadm raid without losing anything is a damn miracle.

I wanted to get something with a lot of upgrade potential, and this was the cheapest option to get my foot in the door with an EPYC processor.

Also needed two PCIe slots that could do at least 8x for the hba card and Intel ARC for video streaming.

Current hardware is an ancient fanless motherboard from 2016. RAID6 is through mdadm. Four of the drives are through a super slow PCIe 2.0 1x card.

New motherboard (just ordered) is a supermicro H13SAE-MF which has dual nvme slots and a built in raid controller for them.

Doing that every day feels a bit impractical. I already do that every few months.

So I’m kind of on the fence about this. I ran a raid boot disk system like 12 years ago, and it was a total pain in the ass. Just getting it to boot after an update was a bit hit or miss.

Right now I’m leaning towards hardware nvme raid for the boot disk just to obfuscate that for Linux, but still treat it delicately and back up anything of importance nightly to a proper software raid and ultimately to another medium as well.

Wouldn’t this require the service to go down for a few minutes every night?

Doesn’t this just pass the issue to when the snapshot is made? If the snapshot is created mid-database update, won’t you have the same problem?

So are you thinking like a raspberry pi with an 18TB hard drive accepting nightly backups through restic?

Lucked out on eBay and got it for $50.

My new motherboard actually has a RAID controller for the M.2 slots. I know people frown on hardware raid, but given it’s the boot drive, it might just be easiest to count on it for daily operation and backup to the software RAID/something else every night.