This is pretty great advice to get into it. I previously ran 3 poweredge 2950s but have since switched to nothing self hosted and back to everything self hosted but on a much leaner setup with a NUC and 14tb WD my book drive with a dual Noctua 4020 fan shroud I 3d printed that it absolutely needed as I killed the original drive in two weeks.

My replica is just a 14tb in my desktop I run rsync to pull the data occasionally after checking SMART status on the primary. It’s not versioned or perfect but it works great to give me a chance to backup my jellyfin media. Everything I care about also gets backed up via restic.

Eventually plan to run a build with the Modcase MASS with multiple drives but for now this setup has been working fantastic.

I added mine to an existing compose file and was up and running in a couple minutes. I only use it for chore tracking so cant speak to the rest of it.

Yeah and they have no top end

Same, honestly if you treat the cheaper tools half decently they last forever

Yeah I never used their UI I just add the ones I use to networkmanager so its a little more integrated to my OS

AirVPN, for over a decade and they’ve kept my ports the whole time

I used to think people who downloaded videos on YouTube, forum posts with guides or useful info and other data were weird.

They were right.

With archive.org under threat some of it will be gone for good unfortunately. Save what you can when you can it might not be there later.

I’m patiently waiting for my 4th Pixel 5A RMA since they love frying motherboards outta nowhere but damn once you get grapheneos going it really is something else

My longest lived backlog task is 3 years old

Great rebuttal lmao

You can get some decent stuff for not much. Unfortunately harbor freight isn’t what it used to be but its still OK for basic hand tools. Major stuff I’d rent. I threw all my stuff in a duffel bag when I lived in an apartment and it worked decent but digging for tools sucked lol.

Would be cool if there were groups for it to get people started off and save a little money without buying anything

You have a choice of where you go and what you do, if you dislike something then don’t go there. I never used 4chan or similar and ignoring it is easy for me you just have to stop caring so much

Welcome to chatrooms, they were always like this its just a lost phenomenon to most people especially those that didn’t grow up with them. Ignore and move on is pretty standard practice, I’m on slskd and I’ve only gotten DMs not sure if it even has the chat enabled by default

I know what I’m doing when I get my 4th RMAd Pixel 5A back lol

Yep these are a great starter I got one about a month ago for $70 with everything included to go alongside my NUC and its been fantastic with proxmox running LXC containers

I remember it used to be popular in gaming groups and some music around 2008-2012 and a lot of variations of the same gas mask character were made

If you’re buying and want it cheap this is 100% the way to go. I got an M900 to go with my NUC and it only cost $60 for one with an i7 vs $200 for a similar NUC

Frugal Usenet, I did the one that gets you the block storage then ended up adding more block storage after that ran up

Stremio with real debrid is great, like Kodi but without the hefty UI. I ended up going to jellyfin with the arr stack on a 14tb external and loving it so far. Will eventually go to an actual NAS but a nice way to get your feet wet

If you’re looking for a hobby 3D printing is a pretty great way to take stuff into your own hands. Hydroponic towers, car parts, stuff around the house. The list really goes on with it, I just printed new tires for my Roomba, sure they’re only $10, but printing them cost me a few pennies.