You cannot use drives that already have data on them in a Synology. They will be “Wiped” during the installation/initialization process. If you can save the data somewhere else you can put it back on the NAS after Installation. I don’t know if this is also the case for QNAP or Asustor.

you can definetly store data, from a Service running on a different machine, to the NAS. This is the whole point of having a NAS. Limitation is network latency and bandwith. But this is no problem for the typical home user use case. If you habe a special use case you propably already know what you need and how to do it.

Always in the router if it supports it. If it does not support wireguard I would rather (if you are able and allowed to) replace the router instead of using something else.

To be honest, even if you say you want to have your own Hardware: I think you would be better of with an off-the-shelf solution from QNAP, Synology or Asustor. They are easy to use and hard to break if you only need them for basic things like file sharing. And it does not look like you require it to do more. Because all your services are already running on a different system/Hardware.

A 4 Bay solution might be overkill for you if currently an 8TB drive looks like enough storage (otherwise you would have already replaced it if you where soon running out of space). So a “cheap” 2-Bay (with 2x12TB drives in RAID1) based solution would be a good starting point to break procrastination. Imho it is always cheaper to go with larger but lesser drives. AS long as you do not plan to use secondhand drives (large drives are hard to get in the secondhand market).

Maybe Asustor is an Option. Their Software is imho good enough for basic file sharing. And with the possibility to run TrueNAS on them you have an “update” Option for the future.

For me this was a very interesting talk to get some understanding of hiw fex works. Interesting for me was this intermediate representation of the x86 code to run their optimization in.

Also the part about Asahi and hiw they use FEX and how it can be improved was nice.

I like such short overviews without me needing to dig through all the Documentation.

I had similar problems with a single Drive in a new TrueNAS setup. The Drive would come up healthy after most reboots but after some reboots it was unhealthy. For me S.M.A.R.T data die not indicate and errors. I reboot the Maschine often because it is a backup system that only runs during backups.

Swapping drives (with a known gold drive) did not resolve it. The error was always at the same Drivebay.

For me thepProblem was the y-split SATA power cable I used. After replacing it the system is working without a problem since.

Besides it being a learning project for yourself. Why should people care about it more then something like conan? I don’t want to downplay your project. But you need to bring something interesting or new to table to get people interested.

Me personally I don’t think that package managers will ever be a widely used thing in the C/C++ world. Both languages are mostly used in low level or close to Hardware programming. Both requiring good understanding and knowledge of the Hardware you are running on. And this is contrary to the benefits a package manager offers, which is General purpose and easy to reuse code.

Me too. Draytek Router automatically updates the IP. Set it up once and it is working since 2-3 years (don’t exactly rember when I set it up).

One of the most used F-Droid Apps on my phone

Just wanted to say thank you for the information that this is based on Wifi Aware and the proprietary AirDrop protocol from Apple. Helps understanding why there are some limitations.

For me these actions of the Deutsche Telekom are already impacting usability and access for specific services. It also happened in my family where a game patch Download (FFXIV) was extremely slow and the update would constantly crash/stop. Only solution was using a VPN and first connecting to some other region like Japan.

And this despite the Deutsche telekom being on the premium side of pricing…

What’s your experience compared to ollama+openwebui?

I like the “Power connected status change”. Helps to find out if the charger is relly plugged in. Hopefully Papers will receive support for digital signage which evince never did. This is still lacking in GNOME.

I can totally agree. From my personel experience these machines work just fine for a regular family household (so like 4 users). Only downside is if you need a lot of storage. But for that it is (imho) a better idea to have a dedicated machine.

From my personal experience I can totally agree. I have a HP Elitedesk with a i5-8500T and it runs multiple Jellyfin 4K HDR streams just fine with Hardware transcoding. And it does this while hosting other services like pihole, minecraft server, homeassistant in parallel. So for a regular family household these machines are good enough. Don’t know if it also works fine with more users (5+).

For me it’s openSUSE Tumbleweed on my Desktops/Laptops and openSuse Leap on my Servers. The killing Feature for me was the propper BTRFS integration with Snapper for seamless rollbacks in case I borked the system in some way.

One “downside” for me is the mix of Gnome Settings and Yast on my Desktop. But I like yast on my servers for managing everything (enabling ports in firewall, network config, enable autoamtic isntall of security updates, etc.). Also openSuse is not that common, so sometimes it is hard to find a solution if you have a distribution specific question.

Personally never looked to closely into openSuse Build Services (OBS). But I know some people who really like it.