we appear to be the first to write up the outrage coherently too. much thanks to the illustrious @self

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    the backups is good advice. I need to put in a second drive and work out how to make it keep a backup. I’m learning all that as I go.

    As for power draw, I only turn it on when I need it and it’s not connected to a display - just ssh-ing into it, so hopefully not wasting too much juice.

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      older-era computers aren’t all great on power. the different between something like a c2d and i3 was immense. it’s still absolutely fucking mental how little power the apple arm shit draws (for what it does). something like a kill-a-watt or so would be the easiest to do some measurement

      I’ll hit you up elsewhere a bit later and share some ideas for backup :)

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        It had an i3 which I bumped up to an i5-750 (it only cost 4 euros) but it’s socket 1156 era, so probably still rather inefficient compared to recent gens, right?

        I’ll hit you up elsewhere a bit later and share some ideas for backup :)

        thanks! that would be great. I already have a NAS with redundancy for my important stuff, but I’m starting to build a large archive of downloaded youtube videos for research projects and I would hate to lose them.

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      for backups have a look at kopia. not only for the functionality, but for the fact that this whole thing is a static-linked single go binary. drop it where you need it, and you’re done.

    • @el_eh_chase@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I’m using two 16TB HDDs in a Raid 1 configuration (one mirrors the other) on my Linux Mint daily driver. I just set it up with mdadm. There are obviously much more complicated ways, but this was simple and convenient for my needs right now.