I’m relatively new to Linux and flatpaks seem convinient to me, what’s the downside?

Calendy is a bit different in that you set your free time. And users request meetings with you and get booked. Cuts down on the guessing game of are they free or not. Just send someone your link and have them pick a date/time. Done.

I have two servers/mini lab / whatever you want to call em. Ones running unraid and is my main server Frankensteined from an old mini itx mobo off of ebay with an Intel quicksync capable cpu. And the others a $80 Lenovo m93p that I just installed Ubuntu server + casa os to mess around with it.

Not sure how popular of an opinion this is these days, but unraid is dead simple to use. It’s not free, and I think they changed their licensing since I got it, but damn is it nice. Just go to the app store, pick out what you want, fill out a form for ports and such and ban, docker containers spin up with everything you need.

A few years ago I’d say hell no but windows 10/11 has become a nightmare to use. Shady telemetry collection aside it runs hot as all fuck and drains my laptops battery too fast.

I never thought id say this but between the two I’d just get an m2 or newer Mac.

If you’re hosting plex or jellyfin I’d recommend an old Intel processor with quicksync. I paid like 200 for my pc on ebay gutted it and put it in a bigger case for more hard drives. Runs 4k videos like a champ with no GPU installed.

Good news is that it’s slated to go stable some time this year iirc.

Probably one of the higher end models?

To be honest, I’ll be forever dubious of new products that seem to be in every other YouTube video. I returned this one after a day or two of troubleshooting. It also didn’t support openwrt if I recall correctly.

Thanks, this has been added to unraids community app store BTW so hopefully you get a good uptick in users from there.

I’d stay away from that particular one. We ui was slow af and whenever wireguard connected it crawled to a stop.

Ahh so this guys either a troll or a conspiracy nut. Ez mute.

Whatever my installation CD had as default 😂. I’m guessing ext4?

Immich but it has a lot of breaking changes, good news is that going stable is on their road map for this year. They also joined FUTO.

You know what Mario needs? An AI companion!

As an alternative, Unraid. While it’s paid, it strips away a lot of the hassle you mentioned in your post. Has a built in shop where you just click, set up ports/shares and docker containers just spin up for you.

While I’m not a huge fan of their recent subscription model change, I do love their OS (I got I’m still grandfathered into the pre-existing perpetual license.

I wonder if something like hoarder might suit your needs and you can filter purchased based on tags

Well that kinda sucks hopefully you had time to replace/repair without data loss.

Thanks for the info. How long did the failing drives last and how was the replacement process (warranty not the nas replacement).

Also these were from gohardrives right?

For 1k you can build a beast.

Just throwing out an option if you aren’t aware, gohardrives on ebay and on their site sell used Hdds. 10Tb for $80. The catch is they’ve been used in data centers for 5 years. The company will guarantee the drives for an addition 5 years and it could save you a lot of money depending on how much you want to risk it. I went with 3, one being a parity drive in case other goes bad.

I use it to manage my subdomains, something like notes.mywebsite.com would point at my trillium instance while photos.mywebsite.com would point at my my immich container it has more uses but that’s my extent. I just have an instance of a cloud flare dns updater keeping my domain in sync with my ip so I don’t have to do that manually when it changes.

So in my scenario cloud flare is just part of my setup.