That's true; once everything inside is brought down to temp, they use very little power to stay cold.
My regular fridge uses ~500-800wh a day (depending on how much it got opened). My chest freezer though, uses ~200wh/day pretty consistently.
Darkassassin07
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OS updates I only bother with every 6-12mo, though I also use debian which doesn't push major updates all that regularly.
As far as software goes; pretty much everything is in a docker container with watchtower automatically pulling new updates to those nightly at 4am. It sends me email notifications, so It'll tell me if an update fails; combined with uptime-kuma notifying me if any of my services is unavailable for whatever reason.
The rest I'll usually do with the OS updates. Just because an update was released, doesn't mean you've gotta drop everything and install it right this moment.
We don't really know how old Donkey is, he may very well have 'grown up' by then.
But yeah; basically a human cosplaying as a donkey (with the help of some magic) fucked a dragon...
I still like the theory that Donkey is a Lost Boy escaped from Treasure Island before the full transformation took over and he lost his voice.
Supposedly docker volumes are faster than plain bind mounts; but I've not really noticed a difference.
They also allow you to use docker commands to backup and restore volumes.
Finally you can specify storage drivers, which let you do things like mount a network share (ssh, samba, nfs, etc) or a cloud storage solution directly to the container.
Personally I just use bind mounts for pretty much every bit of persistent data. I prefer to keep my compose files alongside the container data organized to my standards in an easy to find folder. I also like being able to navigate those files without having to use docker commands, and regularly back them up with borg.
I keep a fairly close eye on my DNS traffic; it still does crash reporting through Crashlytics (which I just block), but that's about it.
I just paid the whole 4$ for the pro version and to support an otherwise free app I've quite enjoyed.
No ads/tracking anymore.
Devs gotta eat.
For more manual stuff; Ssh and X-Plore File Explorer.
Internal, sd card, ssh, ftp(s), google drive, dropbox, and a bunch of other cloud providers; treats it all like one big file system that I can casually copy/move files between.
For just syncing files between folders: FolderSync. The 'downloads' folder on my phone is setup as a 2-way sync with a folder on my server. Drop a file in either side, click sync, file is in both places. I use this to keep most of the files on my phone backed up, not just syncing the download folder.
Gemini 'messaged' me in google messages introducing itself a couple months ago. Just appeared like a normal text conversation with any other contact, but as soon as you click on it you're presented with a wall of T&Cs.
Deleted the 'conversation' and it's stayed gone; though there's an option for it in settings.
The only other place I've see it is an on-screen reminder every time I use Google Assistant. (usually just triggering home automatons)
I did this with a regular rpi, one of it's io pins and a single npn transistor a while back.
Multimeter to check which power button pin on the mobo is + vs -. - to the rpi gnd, + to the transistor collector, gate to the io pin, drain to rpi gnd.
Whenever the io pin goes high (positive), the transistor shorts the mobo pins 'pressing' the power button.
Script pings the servers ip to check if its not responding; then pulls the pin high for 6 sec to ensure the mobo is fully off, then low for 2 sec, high for 2 sec, then low again.
This was for a system that kept locking up while I was away, so I needed a way to remotely hard-restart it.
... Why the hell is your pc on the same breaker as the kitchen??
The kitchen plugs should have their own dedicated breaker in most modern electrical codes (at least in North America). The voltage drop your pc experiences everytime a high-load item like a microwave or kettle is turned on, on the same circuit, is really rough on your PSU.
At least you have a UPS which presumably performs some power conditioning, but still. Not great.