At home, colors Whatever color the purpose is.

You put lots of time and effort in. Now it will be discarded due to decisions of others.

Sad and/or disappointed feelings are normal.

Take care of yourself.

Look up what system vendors will sell for that CPU. If they sell 256 GiB, then you are likely good.

I don’t find I ever upgrade after the first couple months. I would max it out or get multi CPU boards wherI cannot afford to max it out.

Phrasing.

A Linux maintainer wants to keep quality high. Objects to adding complexity to codebase.

Right or wrong, we want the maintainers focused on quality and maintainability.

Debian and a BSD (FreeBSD is nice) can run for years without a reboot.

Certain activities will often push a machine to crash. 3D gaming, network drive mounts on an unstable network, and some drivers.

No distro is going to fix a true hardware problem.

DNAM. Is or used to be on the UBCD.

For the future remember, encryption helps when the disk is no longer operational.

Yes, and no.

Some settings are harder to circumvent, like partition limits, cgroups, and sysconfig. Others are more suggestion than limit, like shell. DNS server and ssh server settings only require a knowledgeable person to circumvent.

It is best to use layers. Helpfully provide working configs. Kindly provide limits to dissuade ill use. Keenly monitor for the unexpected. Strongly block on many layers the forbidden. Come down like the hammer of god on anyone and anything that still gets through.

Without the error messages, it sounds like a security mechanism on the server side.
Any chance the errors are due to too many login attempts, or bad password?

The thing is… The upgrade path degrades. Once one is 3 or more major versions behind, upgrading becomes technically challenging. (I have done this a few times…) It is better to just reinstall.

That said, a Debian system that works won’t just stop working. My Raspberry Pi 2 has no issues since the initial install.

Professionally, it is better to have a fast recovery path. PXE boot, Debian preseed, a config management system (Ansible, Puppet, etc) and local caches and you can be set in 10 minutes. (After years of setting all of that up.)

Nice!

I am currently setting up a FreeBSD ZFS file server. Software installs are so fast I thought they failed. (OS installer needs quality of life improvemens.)

Yes, normal. It is good for you and it is good for Linux.

Distros try different things, and it is good to be exposed to many of those. It helps to discover the most functional ideas and cross pollinate.

Wait until you try non-linux FOSS OSes…

Easier to distro hope if your data is safe elsewhere.

I tend to buy two at a time. Some are months old, others three years old.

Professionally, I have seen drives over 10 years always on at low utilization without issue. (The data was easily replaceable.)

crammed in to my case in a hideous way

Heat is a killer. Check them regularly.

Mainly, I’m wondering if I should migrate /home/ to my RAID array, or leave /home/ where it is and create a new directory on the RAID array.

Leave home where it is. Symlink to important directories on RAID.

Makes it easier to mess with the RAID if it doesn’t make logging in hard.

This will be great on HPC!

I wonder if Slurm can us it as written with GRES?

For roll your own, FreeBSD and ZFS on any old desktop with 4 SATA ports is pretty nice and cheap. Built in encryption, NFS, SMB services. Navidrome has install directions for serving music. Pretty secure by default.

Hey OP, what is the coolest feature?

I like reminding people that with every new technology, the old one is still around. The new gets most of the attention, but the old is still kicking. (We still have wire wrapped programs kicking around.)

You are all good. Spend your limited attention on other things.

Serial is still a thing.
Get a cheap video card.
Or a usb to vga adapter.
A server class system with BMC.
Live CD.

There are options.