Usually config directories and file are found in /etc. I guess there’s a /etc/imapsync/imapsync.conf
If there isn’t then the conf-file(s) should be somewhere in the /home directory.

Try the man page if one exists. That one should explain everything: man imapsync

I bet they did more than that.

The whole god/demigod/etc. ancestry is totally fucked up. Zeus copulated with every woman he could find, even his sisters!

That woman on the bull is Europa (Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη, Eurṓpē), daughter of the Phoenician king Agenor, lived about 2000 BCE. The bull is the shapeshifted Zeus that is kidnapping Europa. They had sex and sired Minos, king of Crete. Minos is the one who feed the Minotaur by sending children into its labyrinth.

Yeah Greek mythology is weird.

That’s an interesting take! Maybe I should do that too, when I restart learning Italian again.
Une, due, tre. Short and simple enough for me!
Or I go the masochist route and name them il ragazzo, la ragazza, i ragazzi and le ragazze. :D

I didn’t meant the newlines. ^^

Is that a new kind of masochism?

What? Automated food supply?

BUY! BUY! BUY!

The cause could be https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/introducing-total-cookie-protection-standard-mode

In LibreWolf you’ll find that in
Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Enhanced Tracking Protection

I don’t have that button in Cachy Browser (LibreWolf Fork for CachyOS) too.

Google was already shit for years. Its purpose nowadays is not to deliver whatever search results the user requested, it’s purpose is to keep the user dangling so that he clicks on one of the sponsored links - that’s money.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the reason you won’t find anything anymore on Google.

You can try DuckDuckGo. They are pretty open on what they do. The search engine is Bing and the maps come from Apple and you can chose your preferred AI from a list.

I haven’t heard about the decentralized search engines. Are they any good? Or are they more in like a proof of concept stage?

Do I use BTRFS or ZFS? I tend to use ZFS because of its advantages when making backups. What would you do?

Usually VMs are usually I/O starved therefore I would try to go as lightweight as possible and chose Ext4 or XFS (depending on what the VM is used for). The VMs can be backed up whole by Proxmox. You have more than enough space to do that and it’s considerably easier to set up. And honestly how big could the containers and VMs be? I guess the containers are 50-200 MB and a VM a few GBs. That’s almost nothing.

Do I use QEMU/KVM virtual machines or LXC/LXD cointainers? Performance wise QEMU emulating the host architecture should be the way to go, right?

LXC containers are way more lightweight than VMs. I depends on what you want to do. Docker and a file server work better in a VM so far but Pi-hole and Jellyfin run perfectly in a container.

I shy away from running all services as Docker on the same machine for backup/restore purposes and rather have VMs per service. Is there anything wrong with this approach?

I would go for LXC first. If that isn’t possible or too cumbersome I would try docker (in a VM) next and one-VM-per-service last as they need the most resources.

I’d love to keep NextcloudPi (because it’d make it easy to migrate settings and files) and there’s an LXD container for it. Would you recommend doing a switch to Nextcloud AIO instead?

Sorry, no idea.

I’ve equipped the Deskmeet X300 with a WiFi card and antennas. AFAIU trying to use WLAN instead of LAN will create some trouble. Has anyone running Proxmox on a machine with WLAN insteal of LAN access successfully?

I would always try to connect it to LAN.

I’m aware that Proxmox comes with a firewall, but I don’t feel very confortable using a software firewall running on the same machine that hosts the virtual machines. Is this just me being paranoid or would you recommend putting a hardware firewall between the internet access and the Proxmox server?

No idea. I wouldn’t mind a firewall container. If something breaks through you are fucked one way or the other. The firewall in your router isn’t much different than any other.
You should always go for Wireguard or another VPN to access your network from the outside.

What else should I think of, but haven’t talked about/asked yet?

Helper scripts for beginners: https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/
Just give them a look.

And it seems you are ignoring Proxmox’ LXC. They are one of main reasons to pick that software.

Edit: As an additional note: I ran about 6 or 7 VMs on a mini PC (Intel N100) with 16 GB RAM. RAM was almost used up and the cpu was at ~15 %.
I then switched mostly to LXC and only one VM. The cpu was now at ~1% and RAM usage went down to 3 GB while still providing the same services as before.
The power of containers, baby! :D

I’m without words that these names are even allowed.

In my country a human has to have a name by which one can get called without being embarrassed.
If by some special circumstance you ‘accidentally’ got a stupid name you can go to your local citizen center and change your name to a ‘normal’ one.

The names of kids #7-9 would definitely not be allowed to be given in my country. They are like punishments for existing.

They’ll shut it down if you send more than a few megabytes down that tunnel. It’s ok if you just need a connection (for ssh and stuff) but anything that generates a lot of traffic will be blocked.

I repeat: Live thrived under much harsher conditions in the past. It will not suddenly die out. I find your pessimism unfounded. I’m sure humankind will exist for at least another millennium.

Ocean acidification will not kill all algae. They existed for much longer than most other forms of live. They survived the +14 °C 300 million years ago, guess how acid the oceans were back then. Also about 300 million years ago oxygen levels in the atmosphere peaked at about 35 % indicating a very strong production by plants. The algae species from back then are still alive today!

Watch Sabine Hossenfelder’s videos about climate models on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4S9sDyooxf4

+3 °C just means that the average temperature on Earth increased by that on average. There are places where the increase is higher and there are places where the temperature dropped. And then there are other places where the weather will be more violent than it was in the past.
The melting of permafrost in Russia that keeps methane trapped will probably be a problem in the future but that’s still several decades or even a century away. The release of methane will not kill us. But it might kill a lot of species.

It’s not the temperature that’s the problem, it’s the rate of change. Flora and fauna can’t adapt that fast. 10 000 years would be enough time to adapt to +3 °C but it’ll happen within only a 150 years time span.

Humans on the other hand will just install an air con and be done with ‘adapting’. Some coastal areas will be flooded and some hot places on Earth will be too hot for humans but everywhere else will stay ‘ok’.

Live on Earth will survive. There were times when temperature and atmosphere conditions were way more extreme and even toxic for humans. But the dinosaurs thrived in that conditions!

Nope. That’s a common misconception about climate change. Humankind will not die out anytime soon. But a lot of places on this world will become inhospitable and the people that are currently living there will migrate.

Guess where they’ll want to migrate to when they have to?

Is SSD really necessary? Everything I search up says SSDs have worse retention than HDD in cold storage. A couple TB of HDD is pretty cheap these days, and seems like a better cold storage option.

SSDs are by design less susceptible and more robust. No moving parts and able to work in much harsher conditions than hdds will ever be able to. The standard set by JEDEC requires every consumer ssd to have a 1 year data retention while powered off at 30 °C (I think). That’s the minimum it has to archieve but usually they are better than that. Do not buy the cheapest thumb drives because they contain the all the crap that wasn’t good enough to make ssds from it.
Btw you need to fire hdds up regularly too or the motor gets stuck. I think every 3-6 months was the recommendation.

Yes, so now I’m thinking a rotation cycle. About every 5 years replace the drives with new ones, copy over all data.

Don’t make it flat every 5 years. Let a software monitor the SMART values of the drives and send notifications if the values indicate an increased change of a dying disc/ssd.

Does this matter if I have a SATA->USB cable stored with it?

Those are the first that fail, followed by the usb controller chip in the tray. Keep it as simple as possible. Removable trays are probably the best way but I’m not sure how much wear they can take.

Do not buy 2.5" drives. This class will die out soon™. There were no new hdds introduced in years and ssds are often replaced by M.2 ones because of the faster connection.

Printing the photos won’t help much. After 20 or so years they are all discolored. You can’t prevent that.

I think SSDs might be the best storage medium for you. Consumer-grade ssds have a 1 year data retention when powered off. That means at least once per year you have to turn it on and copy the data around one time to refresh the cells. This way it’ll probably last several 100 years.

You can’t exactly make it fool-proof. Outside people will never know what you did to create your backup and what to do to access it. Who knows if the drives file system or file types are still readable after 20 years? Who knows if SATA and USB connectors are still around after that time?
For example it is very likely that SATA will disappear within the next 10-15 years as hdds are becoming more and more an enterprise thing and consumers are switching to M.2 ssds.

Btrfs and zfs are self-healing.

You can make a script to check for errors and autocorrection yourself but that needs at least a second hdd. On both drives are the same data and a file or database with the checksums of the data. The script then compares the actual checksums of the two copies and the db checksum. If they match -> perfect. If they don’t match the file where there are two matching checksum is the good one and replaces the faulty one or corrects the db entry, whichever is defect. That’s it. It doesn’t have to be more complicated.

Any file systems Windows can read out-of-the-box are no good file systems. What Windows read? FAT and NTFS. Former is so basic it has no mechanisms to detect errors and bitrot and the later one is a mess.
You should stick to ext4, btrfs and zfs.

If you want to make if fool-proof then add a sticker with ‘bring me to a computer shop to access my content’.

This will do nothing at all. Drives don’t die by rust. They usually die because the motor somehow can’t get the discs to spin. Very often dry lube is the reason. That can occur if you leave the drive off too long.