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I got lucky and picked one up for $200

I got lucky and picked one up for $200

Fanleas cases, no fan, no noise. https://www.monsterlabo.com/

Silent and fanless: look for a Monsterlabo case. It is all heatsink. Buy a fankess power supply, or buy a PSU that is overrates for the load and fanless under 30% load.

Its the setup I have. I can render video and other work loads and you don’t even know the system is on

I found M ITX on eBay for cheap $50, the ad said used mobo (10 available), but it arrived absolutely factor clean and had CPU cover on, etc. I assume old stock rather than used?? And found a CPU for $40. Monsterlabo fanless case cost me the most at $200

As for the other question in thr post: If you are using btrfs or zfs I believe both of those have a send function that operates at a block level and will only send block changes rather than full file changes

Configure and Pre backup the drives before bringing them to family members to save yourself some bandwidth

Support is loose term on Windows. KDE and GS connect work excellent on Linux, KDE connect on Windows seems highly broken

If you have reverse proxy are you checking that set of logs or just the HA logs?

There might be a paid way. At work we have our phone numbers tied into zoom which ties into calling other phone numbers. It is used as a backend switchboard. So you could have a zoom number as your signal number which routes to your landline. Maybe.

Deja DUP has auto validation also. But besides “backup” I think everyone suggests using ZFS that auto heals bit rot. And don’t trust unplugged SSDs, they can suffer bit rot quickly if stored in a hot location

Edit NVM, read up on it. Seems like you have to run PCP protocal on IP4 to bypass thr CGNAT issues.

You can use any open port and port forward at the router, or is CG NAT only 80

Just setup wireguard on your server, add masquerading and ip forwarding. That single wireguard in, will give you full access to your lan

2.5admins is a great show even if you aren’t an admin.

Still been going with multiple shows. I don’t think it was “dropped”, if I recall Chris bought back the rights to his own shows, so he could manage it himself. There was some controversy when the head managers let Joe Ressington go, bypassing Chris (as Joe’s Manager). Seemed things got set in motion to go independent after that.

Yeah it definitely is a pain for adding multiple machines.

I can’t offer technical network advice on vps headscale; Personally I’m not confident in my network skills. I would be more inclined to go through the pain of manually setting up wireguard instead of having a tailscale or headscale service-- and skipping the middleman so to speak.

Edit: setting up a new system this month, Tumbleweed has moved to SE Linux Enforcing as default. It provided some ssh and samba challenges at first until I learned about setting SEL policies. So maybe hardening with SE Linux would also be smart. For example I could SSH remotely into my machine but due to policies being locked down I could not run user bash, or even see contents of the home folder.

You are lucky. Underground cables? We are West Coast of Canada, generally fine all summer, but November is windy season and maybe once a year it is out for a few hours when trees have taken out power lines. Its the undervolt or overvolt that people don’t notice unless they monitor it. My UPS sometimes kicks in for a minute or two, and the report shows 100v instead of 110v, or sometimes a surge of 129 for a brief period. 15 years ago I never cared, till I was doing workfrome home design contracting, and lost a whole days work to power outage and corrupted files. The UPS became cheap insurance.

Cyberpower 1500 AVR for me. Router, WiFi, and server run off of it. It has kept me going on the internet during power outages as well as ding voltage correction when we have under or overvolt power moments. And I use the cyberpower Linux app they provide to set server shut down time based on battery level. It has saved my equipment a few times. We have occasional wind induced power failures here (overhead power lines) and had a crow land on a transformer and explode which immediately triggered the UPS to clean the sudden blip. Also had an HP laptop power charger fuse itself internally and UPS detected the short and shut down all power. Without that UPS, the pack might have overheated if the panel breaker didn’t sense the short.