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Cake day: August 26th, 2023

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  • I’ll enter for God of War, I watched a few YouTube videos of it with my son and it looked fun and a good story. Thanks for this idea, it’s fun. Good luck to everyone.

    Something that made me happy this year: my son tested into advanced math placement at school and I still can’t get over how amazed I am with the poor genes I passed in to him. Couldn’t be more proud as it was something he wanted and of his own choosing spent extra time practicing math. Don’t know how I lucked out, but he’s pretty impressive to me






  • I use backblaze B2. I use duplicity to create a local encrypted backup of daily and then monthly incremental backups that are stored on a separate hard drive as a local backup. I then sync that with backblaze every night. It’s worked like a treat. Gives me my primary data, a local backup on a separate drive and then an off-site backup. And actually my primary data and my local backups are both on ZFS raidz2 drives, so I can even have drives fail and be okay.

    I used to use glacier, but the backblaze interface and uploading scripts were just so much easier to use, and the price was comparable if not maybe just slightly cheaper, I can’t remember exact. I think duplicity also has a front end, duplicati that some people use, but I’ve never used it.







  • I have the ecobee 3 lite and I try to keep it off the cloud and connect through home kit to home assistant. It is exceptionally unreliable and disconnects all the time. It’s the only home kit device I have, everything else is zigbee. I don’t know if it’s an ecobee issue or a home assistant issue or maybe a router issue. The only thing that’s helped some is occasionally letting it have access to the cloud and then it will reconnect to home kit and then I can disconnect it from the cloud and it will be good for any more from a few days to a month. I cannot recommend it because it has been so unreliable, and looking through online forums I’ve seen a lot of other people have similar issues with HomeKit and the ecobee. Eventually I want to switch to a purely zigbee device, as this is the only thing I have that even has Wi-Fi on my automation network.

    I then control temperatures through a combination of home assistant, node red, and sensors through zigbee2mqtt.


  • Good thought, I’m almost wondering if I should just upgrade now, I found a MB CPU ram combo deal at microcenter for ryzen 7700x combo 4 for 400, maybe I should just upgrade to something like that now with a new GPU. My initial an was to get a 7950x3d or 7800x3d in a year or so and upgrade everything then.


  • zipkag@lemmy.worldOPtoBuildapc@lemmy.worldnew GPU advice
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    I’ll have to check him out. And yeah I’ve been worried it might be a bottle neck, but I guess the question I’ve been wondering is if I should just get something higher end now for an eventual upgrade of CPU / MB, or just get a cheaper GPU now and then upgrade everything in a year or two