Absolutely. They’re advertised for being used in datecenters, so I assume noise optimization wasn’t a concern for Seagate when creating those drives.

Like with Google: Most of it for me personally no, some things, yes.

Right next to AI hieroglyphs aesthetic

Sorry, I can’t hear you under my enormous piles of money! 🙃

But yeah. You should do an SSD-only setup if this is within your budget. I assume that for most of us selfhosting is just some soft of hobby. If you’re willing to spend money on the latest and cooles tech: do it. If not, then it’s fine, too.

Okay, so … then maybe really look into the Seagate Exos drives. 20 TB should be pretty much fine for most selfhosting adventures.

I’m looking for something from 4TB upwards.

If you say “harddrive” … do you mean actual harddrives or are you using it synonymous with “storage”? If you really talk about actual harddrives, it’s hard to even find datacenter/server harddrives below 4 TB. Usually server HDDs start with 8 or 12 TB. You can even find HDDs with 20 TB - Seagate Exos series for example, starting at around 360 Euros (ca. 400 USD).

If you’re in for a general storage, preferably SSD, that’s another issue. There is the Samsung 870 QVO (8 TB) SSD that is often advertised as “datacenter SSD” (so I assume it would run well in a server that is active 24/7), but it is currently available with a maximum of 8 TB. The 870 QVO is at ca. 70 Euros per terabyte (ca. 77 USD) which, in my experience, is the current price range for SSDs. So it has a high price seen from the outside but it’s actually fine. It’s also a one-time investment.

For selfhosting I’d go with an SSD-only setup.

do any have particularly good or bad reputation?

From personal experience I’d say, stick with the “larger” brands like Samsung or Seagate.

XUL was HORRIBLE to write, implement, and debug. Been there, done that. It was also 0% portable.

WebExtensions (even if there are some technical limitations and some browser manufacturers decided to intentionally cripple some of the APIs) are in general so much better. You have proper toolchains for development, translations, testing, and publishing. And it is pretty much portable to all browsers. You don’t even have to port anything 99% of the time because it’s just compatible.

like how Google kills lots of products

Mozilla also loves killing things. https://killedbymozilla.com/

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Use XMPP. Thanks to Let’s Encrypt being implemented in basically every reverse proxy, setting it up is a matter of seconds.

Even back in 2023 this was all old stuff … NFT scam was a big thing in 2021 and the crypto hype was a thing around 2013-2018. It’s both still there, but no-one really cares anymore as far as I can tell.

so I’m hoping the same holds true when the next AI winter sets in.

They are already sinking millions into the AI hype :(

Mozilla, as always, late to the party.

Crypto and NFT scam were a thing long ago.

I wonder when they will stop that, too.

Well …

Make sure that, whatever switch you want to get, the switch supports simulating output (edit simulation/storing) and USB devices. Otherwise every switching action would cause disconnect and connect actions on the hosts.

Any other “gotchas” that you guys have encountered on mobile FF?

Not specific to Lemmy, but I was … impressed … that it is impossible to set a custom homepage in the browser. Something that is possible since 15+ years in every mobile browser I used.

Mozilla is always late to the party.

This is where your donations to Firefox go.

If a function takes all types of variables it’s your own fault!

Organic Maps allows mapping, too.