antsu@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
“I do not want to play sysadmin in my spare time.”
* proceeds to do a bunch of sysadminy things, but on a proprietary OS *
Huh…
antsu@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
“I do not want to play sysadmin in my spare time.”
* proceeds to do a bunch of sysadminy things, but on a proprietary OS *
Huh…
girst@feddit.org 5 days ago
Well, i disagree. To me, the annoying part of sysadminning is the “keeping things running” part. Doing them once is unavoidable.
billwashere@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Doing it once… how cute. You can always tell when someone only deals with enterprise level networking equipment. I’m not being critical, just realistic. Anything like this will eventually break. And in the weirdest ways imaginable.
antsu@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Hey. I realise my comment may have come off as rude and made me sound like an asshole. It was not my intention to be disrespectful, apologies for that. The reason I posted that is because I read your post (thanks for taking the time to write and share it) and it left me a bit puzzled. I respect wanting something stable, familiar and that requires minimal maintenance, but you seemed to imply this is not possible with a more “traditional” NAS setup. Many of the points you raised about wanting an applliance-like experience are equally achievable on most Linux distros, with no license fees, and with a lot more flexibility, should you need it in the future (although I understand you don’t need or want it).
Take Debian for example (a.k.a. the world’s most boring distro, in a good sense). With the knowledge you demonstrated about the underlying services involved (BTRFS, Wireguard, etc), it would have taken you no more time to configure the same set of services on a minimal Debian install, it would also run rock-solid for many years, and updates would be entirely at your discretion (as they are with RouterOS). Plus, your pockets would be 50 EUR heavier. But for me, personally, by far the biggest avantage of going with Linux for a data storage solution like this is the possiblity of using ZFS.
Also, have this Debian meme:
An elderly man smiling, holding a folded shirt gifted to him, which exactly matches the one he’s wearing. The new shirt is labelled DEBIAN 12 while his current shirt is labelled DEBIAN 11