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  • Why do you need the files in your local?
    Is your network that slow?

    I’ve heard of multiple content creators which have their video files in their NAS to share between their editors, and they work directly from the NAS.
    Could you do the same? You’ll be working with music, so the network traffic will be lower than with video.

    If you do this you just need a way to mount the external directory, either with rclone or with sshfs.


    The disks on my NAS go to sleep after 10 minutes idle time and if possible I would prefer not waking them up all the time

    I think this is a good strategy to not put additional stress in your drives (as a non-expert of NAS), but I’ve read the actual wear and tear of the drives is mostly during this process of spinning up and down. That’s why NAS drives should be kept spinning all the time.
    And drives specifically built for NAS setups are designed with this in mind.




  • Yes, most podcasts are hosted outside of your podcast player and distributed via RSS (even if this is Spotify which already hosts music).
    So when a service has the podcast it means it lists the response from the RSS feed, but usually they just copy the text data, including the URL where the actual audio is stored.
    This audio is served by whatever other service the creator of the podcast uses, which means you’re a free user to that service even if you pay for Spotify, which means the wonderful benefit of ads.

    And these are ads you can’t block since they’re included in the audio stream (yay! /s).
    Podverse (the player I use) mentions this as an issue when creating clips of the podcasts because they can’t know how much the timestamp has been offset by those ads, so your clip probably only sounds good to you.




  • I had a similar case.
    My minipc has a microSD card slot and I figured if it could be done for a RPI, why not for a mini PC? :P

    After a few months I bought a new m2nvme but I didn’t want to start from scratch (maybe I should’ve looked into nix?)
    So what I did was sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdc bs=1024k status=progress
    And that worked perfectly!

    Things to note:

    • both drives need to be unmounted, so you need a live OS or another machine.
    • The new drive will have the same exact partitions, which means the same size, so you need to expand them after the copy.
    • PS: this was for a drive with ext4 partitions, but in theory dd works with the bytes so it shouldn’t be an issue what fs you use.

  • I love playing Dwar Fortress, I’ve spent hours and hours in there.
    The game is free from the developera site, the download is only 15MB.
    If you want to support them you can buy it in steam, the listed requirements is 500MB of storage, I assume since this version has a tile set.

    I’ve also put so far 400 hours in oxygen not included, I think it uses around 2GB of storage.

    And to me, any monster hunter game its worth its price, I’ve bought each game and played it for minimum 200 hours each, I think I reached 500 in on of them.
    Tho the newer ones are pretty heavy for their respective platforms. Also triple-A game price.