You might want to look up SMR vs CMR, and why it matters for NASes. The gist is that cheaper drives are SMR, which work fine mostly, but can time out during certain operations, like a ZFS rebuild after a drive failure.

Sorry don’t remember the details, just the conclusion that’s it’s safer to stay away from SMR for any kind of software RAID

EDIT: also, there was the SMR scandal a few years ago where WD quietly changed their bigger volume WD Red (“NAS”) drives to SMR without mentioning it anywhere in the speccs. Obviously a lot of people were not happy to find that their “NAS” branded hard drives were made with a technology that was not suitable for NAS workload. From memory i think it was discovered when someone investigated why their ZFS rebuild kept failing on their new drive.

Another option is subpaths: xyz.ddns.net/portainer

Just one open port, to your reverse proxy (nginx or other).

The client updating no-ip with your dynamic IP is independent of the reverse proxy software.

This sounds like a FOSS utopian future :)

There’s a few projects that have started towards this path with single-click deployable apps, you could even say HomeAssistant OS does this to some extent my managing the services for you.

I believe one of the biggest hurdle for a “self hosting appliance” is resilience to hardware failure. Noone wants to loose decades of family photos or legal documents due to a SSD going bad , or the cat spilling water on their “hosting box”. So automated reliable off-site backups and recovery procedures for both data and configs is key.

Databox from BBC / Nottingham University is also a very interesting concept worth looking in to:

A platform for managing secure access to data and enabling authorised third parties to provide the owner authenticated control and accountability.

I third Proxmix

I run most stuff as Docker images inside a VM, but also a few services as LXC containers and some non-docker stuff in other VMs

Like taiyang said, SteamOS is based on Arch which is super not newbie friendly, but the desktop modes “desktop environment” is KDE which available on pretty much any Linux distro, including beginner friendly ones like (K)Ubuntu and Fedora (although I’m not sure how beginner friendly Fedora is, regarding proprietary drivers and codecs)

+1 for SSH and FileZilla (or WinSCP)

I now see my mistake but I refuse to correct it

True story? I haven’t been back to Reddit since the 30th, are the boys actually running rampant as many predicted?

Thanks for sharing :)

I have no clue about the HDD model. I guess I’ll find out when I replace it xD the HDD has been reliable, it’s just unbearably slow.

I saw the HDD light blinking when opening webpages, I’ll give the SSD a go to see if the laptop can become somewhat usable. It’ll only be intermittently used anyway, so I’d rather not buy a new one. (To save a bit of money and a lot of E-waste)

How is your potato treating you?

I’m considering buying a small SSD to throw in a 2014 AMD laptop, hoping to upgrade it from “unbearable slow” to “usable for very basic web-browsing”. It was a cheap laptop at the time, so I fear the CPU itself might be a bottle neck, not just the 320gb of spinning rust. (4GB ram should be sufficient for basic use though)

Genuine question: Is that good or bad? What kind of farmers? Food or tulips? Humans gotta eat, and I thought Netherlands produces a lot of Europe’s agricultural output

For language_not_allowed the selected language of your comment must be among allowed languages on the community/instance your commenting on. This whole Language thing can be a bit confusing depending on the settings of your instance.

I think the jerboa client (and others?) does NOT let you select the language of your comment, so comment once from the Web interface, make sure you select language (English). After I did that I can now comment from Jerboa, so I guess my instance remembers the settings.

Also go in to your profile settings and tick “undetermined” language setting, in addition to English and whatever else you use

Here are some links I had a similar issue: good explanation, and issue solve by my Instance admin: https://reddthat.com/post/1976

Ferdig.uk changing from English only to also undetermined https://feddit.uk/post/37778

Alternatively downloadable self-contained installers like what you get from https://www.gog.com/

Wine is the most stable ABI on Linux 😂

Yeah fair enough. My point was also that not even doctors are 1%ers.

Inequality is so bad already, and as usual the benefits go to those who own the means of production, but AI is so capital intensive very few will get a seat at that table. And unlike previous automation revolutions, AI is on track to progress VERY quickly and VERY widely

AI may never replace X profession, but with AI 1 professional can be as productive as 3 professionals. What will the other 2 do?

Are doctors even 1%ers? Or are they among the 99% rest of us?

I feel like we’ve seen this before…

Maybe Halo? (Master chief collection)

And of course good old Counter Strike

Heavenly Bodies

I’m actually having the opposite experience (for the most part). All the little papercuts of yesteryear are almost completely gone, and it’s only looking better on the horizon. Of course your mileage may vary depending on use case and hardware…

Some things of the top of my head:

• Flatpak replacing 3rd party PPAs. Brand new software without dependency hell or breaking system packages? Yes please
• Snaps and AppImages too
• XDG Portals standards, making snaps and flatpaks play nice with confinement
• Audio and Bluetooth? It “just works” now
• Pipewire
• Even gaming works really well now, with Proton, DXVK etc
• AMD and Intel drivers baked in to the kernel
• Wayland finally being production ready for many use-cases, and being adopted as the default, fixing so many of the ancient X11 issues (screen tearing, multiple displays with different scaling, refresh rate, fractional scaling) ( cries in Nvidia )
• Nvidia finally changing their mind so Wayland on Nvidia can be a thing (I can’t wait 😊)
• KDE Connect / gsConnect phone integration
• Screensharing on Wayland even on legacy X11 apps becoming a thing through the new screensharing Portal

The only problem I’ve had recently is Ubuntu’s forced snapification, and snap being very rough around the edges for Desktop apps (ahem drag’drop)