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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • What files from your Mac are you trying to sync to next cloud? If you have a Truenas already, why are you hosting files from your Mac instead of mapping a share directly from your Truenas into Nextcloud and working directly off of the source instead?

    As for syncing photos from my phone to Nextcloud, I’ve had no issues over the past 3 years hosting it myself. I had one problem with a lot of conflicts where permissions on my truenas wouldn’t allow nextcloud to delete them, so I had a manual cleanup process last month but that’s the only problem I’ve had. I just switched to Truenas a few months ago from QNAP and am still learning the caveats of their very granular permissions but everything generally works about 99% of the time.






  • I backup my ESXi VMs and NAS file shares to local server storage using an encrypted Veeam job and have a copy job to a local NAS with iSCSI storage presented.

    From there I have another host VM accessing that same iSCSI share uploading the encrypted backup to Backblaze. Unlimited “local” storage for $70\y? Yes please! (iSCSI appears local to Backblaze. They know and have already started they don’t care.)

    I’m backing up about 4TB to them currently using this method.



  • Worth mentioning that NZBget is no longer in development. It still works but there is a fork out of a new client someone is developing. I can’t recall the name but easily findable. This would be the equivalent of your torrent client.

    It’s nearing year end and you can get end of year deals soon on providers and indexers so off hold off until November\December. I think I got a lifetime NZBGeek membership last year for like $100 or something. It was my first time doing usenet but I actually switched my instances to use usenet indexers first over torrent indexers its that good.


  • Funny enough I just cancelled my Hulu after they jacked the ad-free price up to $18. It was $12 when I first subscribed about 6 or 7 years ago.

    I will say thier D+ and Hulu price doesn’t seem bad with the current promotion, but I’m getting D+ currently from family. I’ve always sailed the seas even when subbed to Hulu, but once D+ starts blocking sub sharing I’ll be shoving off for the long foreseeable future once again.



  • That’s definitely a help, thanks for the details! The description of your plan sounds more along what was a available to us, but I’m currently paying off a 401k loan until 2027 so any huge project would need to wait for sure. I’m in Ohio and a few houses in my neighborhood already have solar, and we do get hail about twice a year here. I’d also want batteries as our neighborhood gets brownouts a couple of times a year too and that would help with it.

    I also appreciate how you explained how the tax credit works too. I’m hopeful to do something before they expire it, and I’m also hoping they don’t end it early!