Warzone 2100 (you can download for free as it is an old PC game that went GPL)

gets more on the nose by the day

a search engine for the gemini network protocol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

gemini://gemplex.space/search

have 2 flash/hard/whatever drives: A and B

once a month (or at what ever frequency you can sustain)

backup your data to A and next cycle backup your data to B

nothing fancy or technical, just some basic consistent backups.

if you can do that you’ll likely be fine. There are nearly infinitely many enhancements you can do if you are more technical or can follow technical instructions.

That is just the gateway drug to bootstrapping.

Check out https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap

if you want the real hard stuff.

They already did: https://www.commanderx16.com/

you just probably want something better.

and that is the problem building higher performance requires more advanced lithography and that is expensive and until recently was not even an option for a hobbyist (without taking a mortgage on their house).

Given current stagnation, you need only wait about 10 years for that viable option.

rxvt-unicode with tabbedex.

I refuse to use a terminal emulator that needs more than 100MB of RAM to display 80x24 green text on a black display

checksums at the filesystem level does nothing to protect against memory corruption which can overwrite everything on your disk with null values and a matching checksum; fail to write anything to disk and/or do nothing.

But that is the gamble you take every day with every GB of RAM you have.

the correct answer is Gemini or gopher.

No ECC, absolutely worthless for a NAS if you care about your data.

a git mirror of the content is the golden standard if you can do that.

It is recommended by the permacomputing community

https://permacomputing.net/cloning/

incorrect, all of the previous versions and who made those changes would all be stored in the _A tables

Raid stopped being optimal now that btrfs and ZFS exist.

If you plan on doing matching drives ZFS is recommended

If you expect mismatched disks, btrfs will work.

If you are most worried about stability get a computer with ECC memory.

If you are most worried about performance, use SSD drives.

If you want a bunch of storage for cheap, use spinning disks (unless you exceed the 100TB capacity range)

looks interesting but does it have download/clone/mirror setup so that it doesn’t become another data graveyard?

indeed, the default open and cooperation requires what social scientists call a cultural subsidy which historically is contributed by zealots.

if you look at the Open Source Software community, you’ll notice the FSF pulls the standard towards stability and publicly shames those who try to shift the standard towards proprietary.

but if you look at the Open Hardware community, you’ll notice that it is lacking a sizable FSF community and it is sliding back into proprietary silos (Aka it is slowly dying in terms of actual openness).

You forget the need for an FSF style fringe to make such a community stable long term.

I am assuming you are referring to: https://github.com/th3jesta/ha-lcars

Efficient is sexy

Well going renewable is a political question not a technical one.

We are not doomed by nature but by the things we love.