hendrik

This is less of an issue to companies anyway. A lot of them do leasing and those machines will get returned and replaced regularly. I think generally, most companies replace their workstations and laptops every 3 to 5 years. They’re not deductible from taxes after a certain point and they might as well get new and faster ones and not deal with old things failing. It’s a different story for consumers, though. But no one really cares for the consumers. (Or the environment, if that contradicts with making profit.)

I’m a goal oriented person. I just want to use it, I don’t want to tinker with it.

I intended to recommend to you, you’d then better continue using Windows 10. Since that’s working for you and you got it set up. But I realize support will end next year already.

I mean the Linux user experience won’t change fundamentally. You’d better get used to it, or think about some alternative solution. Or pick the distro you like best and just live with the one or two edge cases. I’ve come to realize that Windows people have started to realize the advantages of scripting and the command line (Power shell) as well, and nowadays the admins started doing similar things that they’ve previously looked down upon… I see how an ordinary user would prefer to just click on something… But some parts (especially) of Linux had been made with the power user in mind. And no one got around implementing some simple UI (yet). I mean it is how it is. Linux also isn’t 100% perfect.

Regular stuff should work. And it should be minimum as fast as Windows. If you’re installing it on cheap and old hardware (with your TV set), I’m not sure if slowness is the operating system’s fault, or if it’s just the slow hardware that struggles with the modern and demanding video codecs.

I wish you the best and that you’ll find some acceptable solution. I think at first you need to sort out the network driver issue. If it’s necessary, just spend the $20 for a new network card. I think Linux is doing a decent job in supporting a lot of hardware. But coverage isn’t 100%, even today. And the situation is fairly good compared to the old days. And the issue goes both ways. I also own hardware that isn’t supported by Windows (any more). That’s the cost of switching operating systems.

I think I get it. I mean in that situation you’d essentially pay to get some SATA ports and the space to put the harddrives. The money doesn’t really get you anything else that’d be fundamentally different from the current setup.

Idk, I’m fine with 48GB of RAM to run a lot of services and containers. And I don’t use a separate machine for storage, the hypervisor does that and I either share the filesystems via NFS or pass them through into some VM. And I don’t think a fast machine with lots of RAM is needed for storage, unless you’re using ZFS.

The HDDs alone should be roughly ~1,000€. The rest of the build sounds pretty much like your other machine, just with a different processor.

I run my YunoHost in a VM with like ~8GB of RAM allocated. You can move everything to one single machine if you set up some reverse proxy for all the web frontends.

36TB of storage and 64GB of RAM should be plenty.

I’d say it’s good if it’s easy to use, well written with maintainability in mind, offers good functionality, is reliable and follows current best practices.

It’s easy to selfhost if it’s packaged. Because then I can just apt install gitlab edit a few config files and I’m done. Or click on it in Yunohost, or maybe run the Docker container.

But just “easy” isn’t the whole story. It needs to be maintainable, still around in a few years, integrate into the rest of my ecosystem…

I meant the other side. If you use 200GB of your Proxmox, you don’t need to transfer it to the NAS. Which is the question here. I don’t do it, because it’s mostly calendars, contacts and like 10GB of data on Nextcloud, which I’m currently working on, or sharing with friends. And the “NAS” is sleeping most of the day. But if OP wants all their data stored on a NAS, they might very well configure Nextcloud to use NFS and do it that way.

Sure. That’d be a valid use-case. I don’t think I can recommended anything, here. Both should work fine. And you can always run into some unforeseen consequences in a few years. Especially once you decide to change something about your setup. But these things are hard to factor in. I often tend to prefer the easier solution over the more complex one. That helps with maintainability. But that approach doesn’t always apply.

Edit: If you want everything stored on the NAS, just do it.

Is the storage shared with other software, or are the NAS and Proxmox two different machines? Or why bother to set up NFS at all?

I keep most of my usual data local. But I’ve also added some external storage to Nextcloud, that’d be a large harddisk that contains some music and TV recordings, Linux ISOs and rarely used stuff. It’s mounted read-only most of the times and spins down unless I need to access my achived stuff. That’s the main reason why I keep it separate.

I mean this doesn’t really matter for the use case… The only difference is you’d need to tick two boxes to clone both partitions, or just one, if it’s one. And if you just dd everything onto a bigger disk, you don’t even need to worry about anything. Just clone the whole storage and it’ll be the exact same (cloned) partition layout, whatever it is.

Is VSS even a backup? I thought it just copies old revisions of files into that shadow area so you can revert them to an old version after you modified them… But I don’t think it’s a full backup or allows you to restore something like a broken filesystem or any severe error?! I guess you could achive a similar thing with practically any linux backup solution on online filesystems, just that the restore will be a bit more cumbersome. Or something like a snapshot, that’ll do everything and even more… Or take one of the backintime clones, if it’s userdata…

I got a Xiaomi scale 2 (years ago) and that works with the OpenScale app. It’s Free Software. There is a list of supported bluetooth low-energy scales by that project/app.

Uh, I’m not sure about that setup. Usually F-Droid strip the Google libraries, so you won’t get push notifications via whatever the default Google mechanism is. (And I’m not sure if it also requres some setup on the server side.)

And without push notifications, you’ll experience severely delayed notifications. I installed ntfy for that. That’s an alternative push notification provider. And that works for the F-Droid versions of FluffyChat and Element X and such…

Maybe try the Play-Store version of Element and see if that works. Or install something like ntfy on your phone if you like the F-Droid builds better.

I don’t know much about Dendrite, but maybe you want to add which client on what kind of device you’re using… Computer or phone is kind of a different story concerning notifications. And on Android it also matters which brand and if you’re using an aftermarket OS variant maybe without the Google services… or the stock Android that came with the phone. I’m just asking since we’re in a nerd community here…

Just make sure you actually enable the jails/filters for the services you use … I’ve seen people just install it and that will by default just protect ssh and leave everything else as is.

That looks like the internet. Every server gets bombarded with these requests. Generally: Use good passwords, make sure your software blocks bots brute-forcing passwords, after some sane amount of tries… Keep everything updated…

If you want some more attacks, install a mailserver. Or expose VNC/Windows Remote Desktop or a VOIP server. That gets the bots really worked up.

Idk if kids are a target group of Nobara Linux, but I heard that’s good for gaming.

Rest sound good. Don’t forget to give them lots of productivity tools… OBS, Kdenlive, LMMS so they can practice shooting videos, create music… They’d need LibreOffice, maybe an IDE to learn coding, or something to create a website. As a kid I had a lot of fun tinkering with the Free Software tools, next to gaming.

Test the website blocking, if you restrict for example porn. Nowadays the browsers all try to do some privacy enhanced DNS over HTTP and that might circumvent the default DNS. I’m not up to date with the current solutions to restrict usage… Maybe someone can chip in, I’m pretty sure that’s available.

Well if you want a proper upgrade, 40TB plus redundancy and space for a GPU, I’d say you don’t want a mimi PC but a full-blown one. I built my server myself from components. It’s hard to find good numbers on power consumption and that was one of my main concerns. I had a look at some PC magazines and what kind of mainboards they recommend for a home server. Figured I wanted 6 SATA ports and I started from that. Unfortunately said magazine doesn’t have a good article right now, so I don’t know what to recommend. Another way is to look for refurbished PCs. If they’re some brand like Lenovo or Dell, you’ll find the specs online. With a N100 mini pc, I’m not so sure if that’s a big step up from your current setup… I don’t think they have more internal harddrive ports or slots for GPUs than your current laptop.