Just another thing: Get proper,WORM(write once read many) backups. Get a M-Disc capable blueray burner (around 100 bucks) and burn the real important stuff in Archive capable Bluerays (normal ones degrade within years,these don’t). You don’t want to find out your datasets suffered from bit rot(yes,that is a thing) 5 years later and have no option to restore because you fucked up backups 2 years ago. For the real important data(everything that can’t be redownloaded aka the personal stuff) it’s worth it.

Ideally do put some of those discs somewhere else,away from your house.

But for gods sake use proper backups. The tendency for immich to break things is the reason I nowadays recommend photoprism to people who start with selfhosting - it’s worse in a lot of ways but way more stable most of the times.

You don’t need many “guides”, especially not on blogs. They are risky - often written by people who don’t really know what they are doing fully and,more importantly, don’t update their guides. Then things can become really really ugly fast.

If you managed to run jellyfin on a miniPC on Debian you are already doing a good job and very likely already quite a bit.

My personal recommendation: Get another miniPC (no ARM,so no Raspi) and put Debian on it. Then use the Proxmox Community scripts to expand your reach, BUT use them as an “understanding how shit works” base - they have their limitations and their quality has sadly dropped since tteck is no longer with us. (RIP :(

That should give you a pretty good insight into virtualisation, KVM, basic networking - and a plattform to play that you easily can revert to an earlier state if you fuck up.

Remember backups, remember documentation (a wiki,maybe netbox) and monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana or Zabbix are some of the multiple options).

If you want to, you can also look into bash scripts to automate a few things. I know people here hate LLMs but actually ChatGPT and perplexity are good for that. Let them write a bash script for some easy tasks (e.g. update the VM, download a configuration file, create two admin users, make them sudo, install zabbix agent, install this and that) and then let them explain step by step to you. They aren’t too bad at it and actually help you learn basic scripting fairly well. (And then learn it properly with a e-course or something.)

As long as you don’t operate any public facing services and proper backups the actual risk involved is fairly small

Dude, just read the fucking manual, it’s on page 95 right under “What to do when a Gloridian chokes you through the time window?” And just before “Things you should report to the Time Cops”

Yeah. Would be my recommendation, too. For the size of the lab a Zimba seems a good choice if something new is what OP wants, otherwise a MiniPC.

Funny enough, before “einen dübeln” became smoking weed it was also used for fucking. Which left me very confused a few times.

These wall plugs/the Fischer type are not meant for plasterboard at all. Because Plasterboard is a fucking abomination in terms of building quality.

Not me, but a friend. She got insulted by a drunk female nazi who happened to be… Ugly as fuck,not only because her ideology.

Very calm and mannered she simply told her:"Excuse me, Ma’am, as I midwife I feel professional inclined to forward an important piece of advice to your dear mother: Usually you throw the afterbirth away and keep the baby,not vice versa. "

First of all: As a healthcare professional but not your healthcare professional: What you describe has strong signs of a depressive phase and you should first and foremost seek professional help - don’t trust the internet on this and more importantly don’t start to self treat yourself in any way besides behaviour based measures.

Secondly: It can take ages. I’ve been there. Especially when your new job is similar to the old one it is quite difficult, as you “in theory” know what to do but in reality you still have to find your place in the new company. It will take time. But it will get better.

Same for me, I just knew it because I stumbled across it recently.

Well,tbf, AMD is at least a little bit better than Intel. They are even worse.

I fucking want proper, block based naming back

Literally what’s done. Most dogs are chipped these days

And law enforcement can absolutely find out.

And most cities in my country require the dogs to have a tag with a human readable number (both for tax and identification purposes) as well when they are out in public.

Tbh, as someone who just built their own system I am a little bit angry that they didn’t announce it a few months earlier - I would have waited a bit longer then to see their pricing.

The specs are solid for a “Proxmox NAS with ZFS and containers”. For a regular NAS it’s oversized,but we all know that. The trend towards integrated devices is there and I went down that way as well.(And if you can actually install a different OS of course)

Anyway: If they can deliver what they promise it might be one of the most interesting systems - it doesn’t have many of the issues the Ugreens have (lack of ECC,etc.) and if they manage to deliver… it’s pushing into a space a lot of prosumers and small companies are that is currently only covered by self builds or spending much more money than necessary.

They list the AI 9 Hx Pro 370 which does support ECC.

Bitwarden is absolutely solid,yes.

Local server wise: If OP uses it in a local only setup behind a proper VPN implementation from my point of view the risk is acceptable. It’s not that hard to secure a home server in a way that Vaultwarden is not at risk - and when you’re so compromised that it is, then the attacker can easily use other vectors to gain the same data (RAt,keyloggers, etc.)

mam?

I would love to see a replacement that supports Anna’s Archive.

Don’t get the Kobo,it works only mediocre with Calibre Web and other “web based” “personal librarys” - and Kobo is forcing Kepub down users throat more and more. Kobo only looks good if you come from the hellhole that Kindle has become,tbh.

I would highly recommend looking into Pocketbook and especially Onyx if your goal is a more “free” approach.

Yeah. Some even go on Holidays to Florida.

I have some very very remote family links to an Amish family. They absolutely use technology but can only do so for work purposes, the computer is highly locked down, in a special room at their work (a carpentry business) and only specific people are allowed to use it. But they have a newsletter and do market their products online and may have a website (But I don’t know the latter for sure).

It was long debated in their community if it was permissible for us to send them E-Mails as that clearly is a personal purpose, but with us being in Europe and Australia it was also considered that the “bond of the family” is important to them. In the end they found a typical “Amish” solution - a very “special one”. We received their monthly newspaper(which is normally printed only,but is electronically produced) and were allowed to send “urgent” messages (e.g. if someone was born,died,etc.) to them(and they were allowed to answer then). But not personal business, that has to go through regular mail. (Funny enough when I was in highschool and asked a few general questions via e-mail for a school presentation that was sooner than mailing back and forth allowed, that brought up another big discussion and they had to decide if answering my questions would already be proselytising or not. (It wasn’t but that took longer than my presentation date…so it didn’t help so much).

We have lost contact sadly during COVID as their children all didn’t come back from Rumspringa(and are seemingly not interested )and the parents have grown old - which is a bit sad considering that this connection was held up for the whole time since the Amish left Europe.

Old PCs often have that problem. My “NAS” is more a full on proxmox server with an AM5 CPU, 64GB ECC and yet it halved my power consumption compared to its predecessors.

Easiest way is to use a tasmota based power plug. They need to calibrated once,but then are pretty reliable and can be found for 15 bucks.

Nous A1T (or similar nous,but watch out for the T at the end, Z is zigbee) is popular in central europe. They are well built and cheap as fuck. But again,they need to be calibrated once which you need a steady user (e.g an old incandescent light bulb ) and a multimeter for… It’s easy and only needs to be done once.

Another option are the Inter-Tech PDUs, they costs around a 100 Bucks, are fully IP, can switch channels but only measure the consumption of the whole strip. If you have a more advanced USV they often have a total power consumption measurement.

If you want to go all in you need to look for “switched and metered” PDUs, but they are fucking expensive. The Cyberpower PDU81005 is the cheapest “good” one and is over 400 bucks here . So… Most people won’t do that,even in a professional setting.