I say home server when I’m talking to normies.
When I’m talking to geeks I say forbidden router
https://www.level1techs.com/video/level1-presents-forbidden-router

Yeah, it does a good enough job of handling the metadata which is why I mentioned it. To find books you need a private tracker.

No, it’s a hot mess. I only get 6 books a month and she is one and done so it’s manageable to do it manually

Having to run two instances to support audio and text books was the deal breaker for me.

Now I use audiobookshelf, and it’s easy enough to find everything I need on mam without an extra search layer.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/linus-torvalds-apologizes-for-years-of-being-a-jerk-takes-time-off-to-learn-empathy/

If it’s just buckets of data, mergerfs can pool the drives together, and then you can dedupe the whole lot.

Or consider buying a surplus 20tb drive, copy everything to it, dedupe the 20, write back to the 4+4+2 as cold spares. Those surplus drives are $10-14 per tb and I’ve had fantastic luck with them.

Ctrl+Ins gang rise up

I used slackware, btw

Is zfs required for security footage?

sftp

All my machines have my keys, nothing to set up, nothing to tear down.

But it has to be a magic packet, not just any ole request.

I had a 3700x that would lock up sometimes at light usage. Passed every stress test, and could idle for days. I swapped ram, psu, and mb with no effect. It’s possible the microcode and firmware mentioned here could have fixed it but I got another CPU and all my problems went away. Worth the $200 for me.

Yeah I’d rather deal with this than a blind persons gear not work

I’ve had wemos d1 boards from AliExpress show up as a brltty and the braille teletype driver grabs the device. Just something to look out for on some distros

VPS providers hate this one trick

It sounds like people want Mint?

It’s not 5x capable, is my point.

About 10 of those VMs are running a single docker image. It runs great but I know better now.

opnsense
home assistant
neolink
NextCloud
Pihole
Frigate
Omada controller
Photoprism
Wireguard server node
Jellyfin
Transmission-daemon
Audiobookshelf
Plex
Arr stack
Caddy
Librespeed
Invidious
Openspeedtest
OpenMediaVault
VaultWarden
Paperless-ngx
Rustdesk
Proxmox Backup Server
3 or 4 desktop images to mess around with

My 7700x is 5 times that wattage. Granted, it gas 128gb, a380, 4 hdd, 2 SSD, 40gb nic, tpu, and 25 VMs running on it.

The lesson here is that I’ve way over-spec’d my machine.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/yqX3C8

$650 for the box leaves you $350 for drives and a 10Gb NIC. I’ve been using serverpartdeals refub drives with good results. They’re ~$10/tb.

I think the N100 type CPUs are limited on PCIe lanes. You end up with less nvme, less sata, and usually no slots.

You can find x570 am4 boards for less than $100 now. Two nvme, 8 sata, 2 big slots and 2 small.

But all of that flexibility and expandability is going to cost you in power. My 7700x w/A380, 3 hdd is 125 watts 24/7. $10 a month on my power bill. I think those n100 mini PCs only have a 35w brick and idle at less than 15w.