I have to keep a spare bootable drive laying around for these muppet companies who only have firmware update mechanisms on windows, my monitor and thunderbolt dock being two that come to mind.

I had to disable the button in OS settings for LAN parties as everyone would meme each other by pressing the button. Hold to power off still worked enough gave enough time to stop them from holding it lol

I ended up just adapting my composes to run commands, on my desktop I don’t mind having to manually start them at boot, I could easily make a simple thing to just run at boot and just say podman run <container> as most of my containers depend on others so I can just start the child-most container and it’ll start them all. I just have some shenanigans where I use one container as a VPN for the other ones, which is a bit messy if using rootless. I’ll have a look into the links and see if there’s anything new in there I haven’t seen before but yeah, nothing unsolveable I’m just needlessly putting things off lol

I more mean replacing the runtime etc, I’ve got some running on another machine and had some difficulty wrapping my head around the subuid and subgid stuff, so in theory I should be fine but it’s an irrational worry lol

I’m eternally sitting here putting off migrating my homelab from docker to rootless podman due to some rather janky patterns I use. It might be super smooth or it might not so instead I just wait in endless decision paralysis

That’s why you put it in 3, with no rhyme or reason for which goes where

Being both autistic and having ADHD is very common, unsure bow accurate it is but I’ve heard the figure of 80% comorbidity (I have both). Its also possible you haven’t the meds that work best for you.

(Sorry if you already know all this and I’m reading too far into a flippant remark)

I did the opposite and used it as an excuse to upgrade my main PC, with the parts that got replaced being inherited by the new server.

Perhaps an unwise move due to it not being optimised for power savings, and looking at your particular use case it wouldn’t be a smart move.

Depending in where you want to have this NAS, one of the more important factors to consider is how quiet you can make it. If you only have a few HDDs they’re not too loud, but ssds are silent. It can also be worth getting some good fans and making sure you can mount them in a way that doesn’t cause unnecessary vibration to have it be real quiet.

I believe the RAM calculation is less important for ZFS these days. I capped mine at 16GB for 64TiB useable pool and had no issues. (This was zfs on linux which i think Truenas Scale is based off anyway).

Regardless unless the same data is often being accessed the caching aspect may not be that important.

General consensus ive been seeing recently agrees with you that you really can get it running on surprisingly low end hardware these days, and finding less than 8gb of RAM in the ddr4 or 5 era is perhaps difficult enough that my above point is moot

EVGA! Oh wait… :(

I’ve been meaning to look into Immich for the express purpose of dropping nextcloud. I actually hate nextcloud because its a bloated mess that does many things ok instead of one thing well. I just want to auto backup photos and files from my phone, but the android app sucks and locks within a microsecond of trying to do any kind of multitasking on phone.

I was about to say it isn’t the same before googling and realising that they are the publisher for Alan Wake 2. I guess there might still be the nuance of develop vs publish, does Valve publish any games that it didn’t develop/weren’t mods of their titles? (Genuinely don’t know)

Either way, I’m still buttmad about the rocket league situation

The only time i tried manjaro it was broken from the start in the sense that it defaulted to Wayland and didn’t set the appropriate nvidia flags. Back then I knew nothing and didn’t know how to do much of Anything so ended up back to mint lol

Australian bushfire danger level?

I was until earlier this week as it just seemed unstable for me. It was a coin flip whether or not booting would actually work or get stuck at various points of the boot process. Reverted back to EOS and everything is fine again