Depends on your goal: do you want to preserve what you can at its best, or do you want to ensure you have plenty of entertainment to go by?
I’d probably go with the lower quality. We watched TV in 480i and under for decades, and 720p is still quite watchable even today. In HEVC or AV1 you can really pack a decent collection.
You can’t really easily locate where the last version of the file is located on an append-only media without writing the index in a footer somewhere, and even then if you’re trying to pull an older version you’d still need to traverse the whole media.
That said, you use ZFS, so you can literally just zfs send it. ZFS will already know everything that needs to be known, so it’ll be a perfect incremental. But you’d definitely need to restore the entire dataset to pull anything out of it, reapply every incremental one by one, and if just one is unreadable the whole pool is unrecoverable, but so would the tar incrementals. But it’ll be as perfect and efficient as possible, as ZFS knows the exact change set it needs to bundle up. It’s unidirectional, so that’s why you can just zfs send into a file and burn it to a CD.
Since ZFS can easily tell you the difference between two snapshots, it also wouldn’t be too hard to make a Python script that writes the full new version of changed files and catalogs what file and what version is on which disc, for a more random access pattern.
But really for Blurays I think I’d just do it the old fashioned way and classify it to fit on a disc and label it with what’s on it, and if I update it make a v2 of it on the next disc.
I do the same but also have a few trap addresses nobody sane should see or email to, but is easy for scrapers to grab. Easy way to train the spam filter.
Both use Linux under the hood. You can even install LineageOS on some TVs.
The only reason AndroidTV is bullshit is the manufacturers because casual users want shit like Netflix and Prime preinstalled. Google TV in particular comes with a lot of crap and the ads, which believe it or not some users take as a feature.
But that’s not inherent to Android TV as an OS, it’s exactly like Android phones and manufacturers preloading a bunch of crap to make an extra buck. If your run AOSP you get none of that crap, and it’s fully open-source.
Yeah, that’s enough to not have it exposed directly. I understand why they did it that way but very good to know, thanks!
I keep hearing claims that it’s not secure enough to be exposed on the Internet, but I can’t seem to find anything about unauthenticated vulnerabilities. It’s got a fair amount of CVEs but they all seem to affect when you’re an already authenticated user, mainly to XSS an admin as a regular user or the likes.
It’s written in C#, and publicly all you can do is pretty much attempt to log in, this feels like it should be pretty sane compared to some other PHP crap I run.
Do you have any examples of previous exploits or anything else to be concerned about?
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I think it counts. You always have the option of taking your data with you and go elsewhere which is one of the main points of self-hosting, being in control of your data. If they jack up the prices or whatever, you just pack up, you never have to pay or else.
Also hosting an email server at home would be an absolute nightmare, took me 10+ years to get that IP rep and I’m holding on to it as long as I can.
I have a mix of it: private services run at home, public ones run on a bare metal server I rent. I still get the full benefits of having my own NextCloud and all. Ultimately even at home, I’d still be renting an Internet connection, unless you have a local only server.
It’s a machine that used to be well oiled but management’s been deferring maintenance for decades, the oil’s gross, it’s leaking everywhere and overheating, it’s barely hanging on, and the manufacturer’s long been out of business.
It’s definitely not for everyone. It’s a very complex show with a lot of symbolism, and you kind of have to think for yourself what’s really the implications of what’s going on.
I was hooked from beginning to end, but it’s definitely pretty boring if you don’t get the subtext, or simply want an easy sit back and relax kind of show.