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Holiday Upgrade Disasters (feddit.uk)

submitted 6 months ago by Cyber@feddit.uk to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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So, just a light post, I upgraded my Pi4 last night and found the Linux firmware breaks a 32bit install.

I've been meaning to change to 64bit for months, but as it's my DMZ box for torrents, radicale, etc, then it's just finding the right time to convert an adhoc setup into my ansible scripts.

Luckily I had a SD backup from September to get it running again

So, what have you broken over the holidays?

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Uggh, feel bad for them.

I've tried for years to get friends and family to have their data sit in a single point in the house and use backup services. That would be a massive improvement.

Family won't listen, so I'm building minicomputers for them all that will handle it. Just have to configure their devices to store data there.

This started because one sibling asked about transferring photos from a phone, and I started documenting how to use Resilio and Syncthing.

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Just a friendly word of caution:

if they don't appreciate what you're telling them to do, ... and if the minis you're building fail to do some magic data protection that they / you hadn't thought about... it'll be your "fault"

They need to take some ownership

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 6 months ago

Oh, agreed.

There's some other stuff at play with the minis (shared family photos, backup to each other, etc) that I'm going to use as an enticement to get them to learn to use these tools.

Once they learn that, I can slip in some other things, piecemeal, depending on what each person clicks with.