That ones actually fine IMO because they advertise Mbps which is fairly clearly different from MBps (b vs B, bit vs byte), and very easy to convert between.

Also Thunderbird, but specifically the Betterbird fork.

It works well, its fast, its lightweight (like 100-200MB of RAM), and has lots of features.

I also have my calendar in it.

Oh I see what you mean yeah, I’ve never used NFS before with it.

Tailscale or Zerotier are the current best options I think.

Yeah it sounds nice but too much time investment for me.

I can install PBS client on any system but it requires manual setup and scheduling which I don’t want to do. When used with Proxmox that’s all handled for me.

Also I don’t think Proxmox cares about storage either, I just use ZFS which is completely standard under the hood.

Thats bad practice though, external drives in Linux should be mounted with no write caching just like they are in windows.

No backup utility like PBS though, thats why I haven’t switched.

They’re the closest light quality to old incandescent bulbs that I’ve found, but I don’t have any of their smart bulbs so can’t comment on that part.

Intel AMT also works for out of band management on consumer hardware.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a quality brand PSU go out on me. Software RAID like MD or ZFS works fine on basically any hardware, and I wouldn’t use hardware RAID these days anyways.

I used to worry about that stuff and use enterprise hardware, but its just so expensive for decent performance, and so power hungry.

Like try and match even a budget i3-12100 or similar for single thread performance (needed for game servers mostly) and you really can’t with used enterprise gear. Plus that i3 has an iGPU that can handle a ton of transcoding tasks, and ML for stuff like immich search or frigate object detection. And it uses about 10w or less most of the time.

Or even:

1. Visit website Y that uses a service to fingerprint and track users.
2. Fingerprint is now stored with tracking company.
3. Every other website that uses said tracking service now knows who you are regardless of using a VPN or clearing cookies.

Yeah media is a good use case for it, and doesnt really need cache either.

It can’t, you lose space efficiency if the disks you add aren’t the same size as the old disks.

It has no parity, you can pair with snapraid but thats snapshot parity and not real-time parity. Depends on the use case if that would work or not.

Also no caching options.

The difference is I can do something about my downtime and fix it.

Linux/opensource naming can be the wildest stuff.

The big thing is very easily mix and match different sizes of disks. ZFS as of recently can sort of do that, but its not as efficient.

I’ve never thought about instance drama or worried about any of that stuff, I just hang out and interact with the communities I like.

Maybe you’re overthinking things too much.

It seems like every Linux distro I’ve used both of those will work fine.

Oh dang now I want to get a group together for that, I loved crysis multiplayer