Victor

I don’t need support for RAID at all to begin with I think. I just need to make my existing drives network-accessible. 😁

I do not have backups at all. This is just… warez. Nothing too important to backup, really. It would just be annoying to download again.

Super misleading title?

Really. I moved away from Ubuntu when they forced Unity on us. 😅

Alright, cool, thanks for the heads-up regarding wiping with Synology!

Yeah, I mean, my special case is basically only that I have a lot of data and I don’t really have anywhere to store it temporarily before installing it in a NAS. 😅 So that’s why I want to just plop them in there… But I don’t know what the best way forward would be to turn my drives into network drives. Just a small drive bay maybe.

Yeesh, okay, I see.

Then maybe some kind of compact drive bay would suit my needs better for now, that I would just connect to a mini PC of some sort.

Thanks for all the info!

Thanks for the notes on network storage access protocols!

A big point of a NAS in my mind is to run some sort of redundancy, which means you will want to setup a RAID on the drives in the NAS

Cool, thank you for that as well, and I was aware of that so I thought I would mention that in my previous comment. But I was specifically wondering if I could in fact just chuck them in as-is and it would be able to access the drives? Because like, they’re separate drives, right? How would that work in a non-RAID setup when accessing from another computer? Would they show up as separate drives? Is it at all possible?

I’m new to NAS hardware and how it works.

If I buy a NAS, say from Synology, would I be able to just chuck my existing EXT4 HDDs full of data in there and it’ll work? Maybe even one or two with different file systems? I’m not too worried about backups or RAID yet.

What are the limitations of dedicated NAS hardware? Can I also… “store” stuff on there? Like, say, have a “schmorrent” 🏴‍☠️ client save “data” directly to the drives from another computer on the network? Or do all services interacting with the data storage need to run on the NAS hardware?

I guess I should rephrase my very generalized comment. You’re right.

The problem here is capitalism. 🖕 capitalism.

Because without that, if we as a species would venture into AI at all, we would be doing it for very specific and resource-conscious purposes. Not because “let’s sink billions of dollars into AI; our thought slaves—I MEAN ad targets—I MEAN dear customers all want that, right?! All the other tech bros are doing it!! FOMO alert! Get on the train while the bubble is expanding!”

I’m with you though. AI is incredibly powerful. Or can be. But the way it is blowing up without any direction or half-assed purpose right now with complete disregard for human life is just so distasteful.

I’m so happy when I see AI being used “correctly” when furthering medicine or treatment/cure/better detection of disease and such progress. But most of it… is just… 😮‍💨

Cool, thank you so much for the info, mate!

Ah, nice. Very cool, very reasonable.

And you can do this all with a consumer grade router maybe? Or do you need to have like a small PC-like device running special software that acts like a router, that handles this?

🖕 AI

Going back a little bit, you mentioned advantages to “segregating into vlans”?

Would you like to elaborate on some of those advantages?

😁 “Maaaybe”

Ah okay, so it’s kinda just for aesthetic reasons mostly? I’ll take that explanation home any day 😄

Is there a technical advantage to using a 192 network vs a 10 network like you described? I would’ve thought they’re just addresses, still IPv4 as well.

I tend to use hostnames where possible. Maybe that’s not viable for your situation?

Exactly, that’s all we want. Why is that so bad?

— billionaires

Is it supposed to give a completely blank screen though? Not from the animations I saw.

I am usually a person not afraid to try new things, and I do so after thoroughly researching what I’m getting myself into because I’ve been using computers unassisted for over two decades and I’ve learned things the hard way, let me tell you, and I’m used to following instructions by now.

I followed the instructions. Added apps. Blank screen. Zero visual indicators, just guessing and releasing. Sometimes nothing happened, sometimes I hit my apps. Surely a bug.

That’s true. Still not a good experience.

Yeah I have been there to troubleshoot but no matter which one I try it crashes immediately or after a few minutes of gameplay.

I am running Flatpak Steam, using Niri, streaming to a Steam Link. Might have something to do with it. I haven’t yet tried local gameplay. Other games stream fine with the same setup though.

I did slide my fingers, I did exactly as you said, but there a nothing showing. I sometimes released my finger and one of my apps would open. But it was just dark.

So yeah, not a user error.