I have used this card for a couple years.

Pros:

• five m.2 sata slots
• single slot pcie, and short / not extending past top of slot
• incredibly cheap
• mine has been reliable
• no extra power needed
• no pcie bifurcation or other special motherboard features required (works in anything)
• the individual drives do show up as individual drives in Debian for me and can be accessed separately (not a hardware raid card)

Cons:

• pcie 3.0x2 speed in an x16 slot (2GBps)
• doesn’t support m.2 pci
• doesn’t support booting from the installed drives

If all you’re looking for is cheap, quiet, storage, and you don’t mind losing out on total read/write speeds, thisll actually do great just about anywhere.

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Yeah. https://kb.unixservertech.com/microsoft_windows/nfs_client

NFS over SMB, neither if you don’t plan on doing this like, weekly or more.

Another one; https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/

But yeah, OP. You can’t reliably stop web scrapers from stealing your data. You can only make more difficult and costly to do so, at the expense of your own server, and in the case of anubis, at the expense of your real users.

I plan on switching to a RPI hosted website at some point, so I can add either iocaine or nepanthes to my website. Might as well make most of the data from my website poison to all the scrapers when I get the chance.

Anyone can learn to use an office suite on their own in very little time so there’s no reason to teach it.

That is one hell of a take. Do you say the same thing about building a budget?

Yeah. The corporations with money are always going to beat the casual users without in regards to processing capability.

There are smarter ways to discourage the big companies from taking pictures of your house than by adding speed bumps to your driveway.

POW built in to the web spec would be hell. Making every single device in the world do that extra bit of work would noticeably affect energy use across the planet.

Yep. https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/3090624/Decreasing-Certificate-Lifetimes-to-45-Days/comment/13237364#entry-comment-13237364

What you’re talking about has existed for decades at this point. Most grey/black hat forums rightfully ban collective ddos tools when they see them. Turns out that the difference between duplicating a copyrighted work, and actively attacking a private server are vastly different, legally speaking, and get prosecuted a lot more forcefully when found.

My dns config options always have at least two spots. Obviously, this means I need two piholes to fill them both up.

More seriously, it has actually saved my network from going down a couple times already.

Oh. I was joking. I’m aware that my storage capabilities really are an outlier, even though I still feel inadequate whenever I go to a hoarding community.

I’ve spent around 1200$ USD since I started collecting things back on 2021, which is about 300/year, or 25/month. I don’t expect to purchase anymore for another three years or so, right around when a 24tb drive drops to 150/each. It’s still not like, super cheap or anything though.

Nothing “almost” about it. Retail drives are available right now at 30tb. Although, the more reasonable price/GB is at around 8tb with occasional outliers.

Yeah. Normal people have about 100tb of total space. My 96tb (64tb usable) of space is completely average and not at all an indicator of something being wrong or abnormal.

My goal was to never need to touch the settings for any of the HVAC units all year round,

I got a lot more luckier than you. I have a single floor, three bedroom place. All I needed to get my setup to an acceptable level was a programmable thermostat.

The other snag was more fundamental - I don’t think it’s possible to have a perfect temperature, even for one person. If I’m sitting still for long periods, I tend to want warmer temps. If I’m cleaning the house, I want cooler temps.

I set my temps for warmer in the afternoon, cooler in the evening/night, and semi-warm again in the morning. It’s not perfect, but it makes getting to sleep and waking up a lot easier.

First of all, only jellyfin has any overhead worth mentioning. Video is big and takes big hardware if you’re doing anything except the bare minimum. Audio support is basically free in comparison.

I actually tried the jellyfin audio streaming before I switched to navidrome. It worked, but all the apps for it were complete shit, or incredibly feature poor. Also, it had terrible album identification support for my library.

I use this container with AirVPN; https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn

Port forwarding was incredibly easy to setup with this VPN, and transmission is enough for what I have. As a bonus, this docker container in particular has a shitload of documentation and support tickets behind it, which made troubleshooting a lot easier for me.

It’s all read only, yes, but I just use a group specifically for NAS access and put users that need it in there.

I use the NFS version from the debian repository; not actually sure which one, and didn’t even know that it mattered.

I had issues streaming directly from one device to the other without transcoding on WiFi. (I know you’re wired! Heard me out.)

I found that, although it didn’t fix the issue, it did help to switch from using SMB to NFS. Something about the way the protocol works meant that SMB had enough of an overhead that it worsened my stuttering issues outside of the spotty WiFi connection. For sure it significantly sped up scrubbing access times as well.

It may not be the issue, but it may be a step worth checking just to see if it is a part of the issue.

For what it’s worth, 4k remuxes can have bitrate spikes well exceeding the limits of a single gbps wire. If you have a player with limited memory, or just limited cache settings, this may also be a part of the problem.

I use htts://file.pizza. It’s open source and has password protection options and everything.