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- Comment on How to start off small with the intent to expand 4 days ago:
For basic hosting of stuff+storage management, TrueNAS has a highly polished product that lets you install docker containers with ease.
They have a curated collection that includes every piece of software you mentioned, plus the ability to install dockerhub images as ‘custom’ images.
Originally I started with a single Pentium 4 with 4x1.5TB disks, and it’s grown over time. Now at home I have 2 TrueNAS machines giving me 80TB of storage, and 3 HP elitedesk Minis running proxmox for general VMs.
I also have a managed switch, which lets me pipe the raw Internet into it, and deliver it to the proxmox hosts so I can run a virtual router with high-availability.OpenZFS, which TrueNAS uses as its primary storage filesystem, has recently gained the ability to increase existing disk arrays by adding additional disks (as opposed to replacing all disks with larger ones) and this makes it even more flexible for future growth.
I will say though, that if the machine is dated and you load up ‘all the things’ in it, you might not be impressed by performance, so be sure to manage your expectations.
I also suggest that you consider making yourself a roadmap, so that you can plan out what hardware you’ll need to implement the ‘next big thing’
Also - the steamlink you mentioned - I’m not sure what you’re chasing there exactly, but if your steam rig is already in your home, the only thing you can do to improve latency is provide Ethernet to both the streaming sender and receiver.
Good luck!
- Comment on ISP tricked customers about fiber optics being used in their internet service, German court rules — 'full fiber' customers found to have 'last mile' copper connections 4 days ago:
When the ‘last mile’ is copper, the ISPs almost always use xDSL for the data delivery.
The extra equipment increases latency, decreases reliability, and often precludes high upload speeds.
I’m on true full fibre, and I get 500/500mbps, with the option of going to 2.5Gbps. A friend of mine on the same ISP who is limited to ‘fibre to the neighborhood’ maxes out at 300mbps down, 90 up. - Comment on wax on 2 weeks ago:
I’ve got bad news for you about woolen fabrics…
- Comment on Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speeds 4 weeks ago:
Was your USR a courier or sportster? In my experience the couriers had better success connecting and operating at 48000+bps
- Comment on Selhosted Spotify Alternative for Closed Social Network? 5 weeks ago:
It’s not FOSS, but you can use Plex for it. The PlexAmp app is very good.
A screenshot showing the PlexAmp main screen Another screenshot of the main PlexAmp interface - Comment on Uh oh lol 5 weeks ago:
Fair enough, I should have been thinking bigger.
- Comment on Firefly, the shinest damn show in the 'Verse 5 weeks ago:
To me, Dollhouse always had a bit of a predatory vibe about it. It almost felt like a “hey, want to know what it feels like to watch a snuff film” vibe…and I don’t mean videos of people simply dying.
The other big 3, Buffy, Angel, Firefly, all felt pretty good to me. Progressive for the time.
- Comment on Uh oh lol 5 weeks ago:
The expansion is supposed to be happening everywhere at the same time, not just at the edges.
For example, tomorrow there should be more space between the Sol and Alpha Centauri systems than there was yesterday.
Our present understanding suggests that ‘normal’ universal expansion should not (in and of itself) result in anything moving towards us. - Comment on Firefox Nightly Adds CoPilot AI Chatbot + New Tab Widgets 1 month ago:
Firefox? No, it’s gecko based.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 month ago:
We kind of do have metric inches, insofar as machinists work in 'thou’s (thousands of an inch) But that’s kind of specialist
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 month ago:
And isn’t 1kg of water 1L? And 1L is 1000 cubic cm? So a 10x10x10 cube?
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 1 month ago:
Has been for a very long time. I quit watching his video after I saw him post a thing that was going on and on about the superiority of the product in his left hand over the right, and how much faster it was and blah blah blah.
Both products were bandwidth limited by the PCI bus and there was no advantage to the expensive one he was hawking. - Comment on Say hello to Bary 1 month ago:
And Pluto knows that Pluto’s Hot shit And you know Pluto knows it “I won’t ever be a planet It don’t matter 'cause I know that I’m still” Hot shit “And you’re hot shit too, so get out of your brain And just do what you’re supposed to do” - Comment on Say hello to Bary 1 month ago:
The barycenter is different for each planet-sun (or any two object) pairing.
The earth and moon have a barycenter which is beneath the surface of earth. Likewise, the barycenter of the sun-earth pair is below the surface of the sun
- Comment on No justice, no peace. 1 month ago:
A human body blocks more than several inches of lead? I need to rethink the design of my bunker.
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 1 month ago:
Correct.
- Comment on Are you fucking kidding me?? 1 month ago:
2 Seasons? I can’t imagine spending enough time to watch 20-40 episodes of something before beginning to like it.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
To be fair, most hos don’t write code worth keeping.
- Comment on Podcast automation? 1 month ago:
I love having Audiobookshelf. My spouse and I have our own accounts so that we don’t trample each other’s saved progress.
- Comment on I'm "use NFS forfilesharing old." what's the current optimal solution for shared drives if I have like 3 linux machines in the house? 1 month ago:
Wut? I’ve got a bunch of dockerhub images running on a scale box
- Comment on xkcd #3132: Coastline Similarity 2 months ago:
My layman’s understanding is that the water mostly makes up for it, and that more wobble comes from the moon than any inconsistency in land-mass distribution
- Comment on Refreshing to occasionally see an honestly written obituary 2 months ago:
For everyone asking about the husband, looks like he did indeed bail on his kids and set up shop on the coast with a new family.
- Comment on Shit's getting real 2 months ago:
All that honeybee suffering…
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 2 months ago:
Eg., Phil Fish of FEZ and Indy game: the movie fame is another who seems unable to ignore negative feedback and massively overreacts to it.
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 2 months ago:
Here’s a video and a few links for you.
vimeo.com/9924049 …com.au/…/policy-driven-porn-norms-a-deep-dive-in… smh.com.au/…/why-the-government-might-need-to-sta… …com.au/why-australian-law-demands-all-vaginas-be…
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 2 months ago:
I don’t think South Africa wants him back either.
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 2 months ago:
Australia is pretty weird about porn too. For years their rules basically ensured all female porn actors get boob jobs and took scissors to their labia.
- Comment on Laptop dreams 2 months ago:
Agreed. I prefer a ‘proper’ dock like the HP ultra Slim dock 2013 or the Lenovo ThinkPad pro dock, where you set the laptop into it and you’re good to go, but times change and the current usb-c thunderbolt docks are reasonably decent now. One cable if your laptop doesn’t have insane power demands, or two if you use a laptop with >100W draw
- Comment on They're completely serious 2 months ago:
I’ve got some bad news for you about Ron Glass …
- Comment on Donald Trump Said He Promised Ivanka He Wouldn't Date Girls Younger Than Her | “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.” 😬 2 months ago:
At that time she’d been asking for 1 year older than her, but for reasons unknown Don refused to budge on that.
