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Oh man it’s been a while, but I think I used hdparm. They basically show up as individual USB drives and were SMART capable.

The DAS is disconnected now for a road test (this system will eventually live in a van), but once I reconnect it I could check if you would like.

I have not, but I also run it as a RAIDZ, so if I did have issues with one, the parity should cover it. That being said it is a backup for me.

None.

I think the unrecognized issues are because people think it will behave like a device with a controller vs just USB pass-through. Every disk I’ve plugged in just shows up fine on the host. I also have only used it with linux.

As for heat, my drives go to sleep when not in use, but even for long stints of backups it wasn’t an issue.

Reviews for just the 4-bay: https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B078YQHWYW?formatType=current_format&pageNumber=1

Yes, and you might want to ask in the datahoarders community.

While I dont use a mini-pc, I have a server with 48TB in it on spinning disks, and I’ve built a hybrid DAS/NAS that I back up to.

I use this 4-bay DAS: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B078YQHWYW I chose it because it supports USB 3.2 Gen 2 and I’ve been pretty happy with it.

It’s usually plugged into my server directly, and I use ZFS to snapshot and send to it. However, I also can plug it into a Pi5 and use ZFS send over SSH to treat it like a NAS. The Pi can of course run Samba/CIFS and SSH for sshfs.

The biggest downside to this structure is probably the metadata speeds for ZFS over USB (looking up snapshot names), but you could always use a cache drive with ZFS.

I highly, highly recommend ZFS and figuring out your software requirements before picking hardware.

Happy to answer any specific questions, too.

The biggest differences between compatibility are with Word and PowerPoint. Cross-slide animations fail miserably in LO, and line placement and width consistency is always problematic, to name a few. For Word, paragraph formatting and color pallet gets mixed up, too.

Don’t get me wrong, LO is great, and it handles large data sets in Excel way better, but if you work in an industry where the document formatting is part of the industry (take marketing, for instance), it doesn’t cut it.

Ahhh OK, I was thinking about the CLI file manager ranger and got excited for a CLI PDF editor.

No thanks. OnlyOffice is way better. Better interface and better MS compatibility. Plus it’s built for web, while Collabra is a glorified VNC session.

Matrix has their sticker solution but from what I have gathered they can see that data in your chats.

What gives you that idea?

As for options, I searched giphy scraper and got a bunch of options on GitHub. Have you looked at those?

Debian.

You know apt, it will be familiar, but more raw for you to play with, and no snap.

A fun activity would be to set up dotfiles of your home directory, and then write a set of scripts to do all of the things you would typically do to set things up (software, gsettings preferences, etc).

Then, if you decide to change from Debian to something else based on Debian (sooo many distros) in the future, your scripts will work out of the box getting you set up in minutes.

Edit: You can also try distros at: https://distrosea.com/

One thing to keep in mind with this is it’s “a new way” so expect hickups. I use Bazzite on my living room PC, and have had:

• Installation of software fail because yum wasn’t supported for what I wanted to do
• Keys for updates get rotated by maintainers, causing all updates to fail without me realizing

I do love Bazzite, and just recommended it in another thread, but I would not run it on my workhorse.

Does OO do PDF now? Perhaps it’s time to upgrade my Nextcloud server again.

And because Linux users know what an md file is.

Yea I use IM for flattening PDFs before I send them.

PDF Ranger or PDF Arranger?

LibreOffice has a PDF editor that I use regularly, but its got one big flaw: interpreting word wrap.

Seeing this thread, I’m going to try some of these out.

OK, there’s the context. “I self-host BitWarden and pay for an individual license to get extra features and support them.”

All for that: Finance FOSS! That bring said, Comment OP didn’t say you couldn’t self-host BitWarden, but I understand the response now. Vaultwarden is just so much easier to self-host, though.

This is why I have scripts that check image dates.

I zoomed in on the screen because I just assumed this was a meme.

Well yes, I run my own, as does everyone else questioning your response. The $20 is throwing everyone without context. We can only assume you mean hosting costs.

This is the way. I’ve used other methods like Keypass + Nextcloud, etc. A system built for this, like BitWarden, is soooo much better. Especially at things like 2FA secrets.