Diplomjodler

This is the way. Money will always get peoples’ attention.

The main advantage Facebook has is the network effect. Everybody’s on there so it makes little sense to go anywhere else. That will be very hard to overcome no matter how good the alternatives get.

That’s terrible advice if retaining control of your data is in any way a priority.

If you know some Python, I’d look at Flask. It might be overkill for a static site but it’ll leave the door open for future expansion. If your goal is minimal effort, this is probably not the way to go.

If they cared about ideals, that is.

The machine must keep running!

I’m afraid I’m going to have to deduct one style point for the misalignment of the labels on the mini PCs.

That’s not the point. If you think CNN&Co. are left, I have news for you.

Not just that, but their definition of “left” often veers into the downright ludicrous. Sometimes i think the whole thing is just another psyop to move the Overton window ever farther right.

Paperless provides an export tool that lets you export all your documents. There’s no guarantee that the import will work on a higher version, but usually it’s fine. Just make sure that you have a clean install without any documents before importing from an old export.

It’s also possible to export all documents and metadata via the REST API, though that’s a bit fiddly. Then you can import them the same way. Again, this should only be done into an empty system, because otherwise your object IDs will be all scrambled up.

Using the Synology as storage and another machine to host everything else is a perfectly fine solution, especially if you have the hardware already. If you want to consolidate everything onto one box, there are quite a few options from the likes of Ugreen, Aoostar or Minisforum. But those don’t really provide much of a benefit other than having one fewer box.

You can use the stock cooler it comes with. That’s said to be a bit loud so any cheap tower cooler will do. But the 5600 is way overpowered for a home server. And you’d need one with a built in GPU, like the 5600G. While having more power than needed is not a bad thing, this baby will suck quite a bit of electricity so it’s more expensive to run. Unless you really need the power, I’d look at an Intel N150 or N200.

Nooooo! Don’t shake the table!

You gotta embrace the jank! Also, he’s got them in some kind of stand. That looks reasonably stable to me.

Give this man a rack, now!

Using a machine like this just as a NAS is a bit of waste. It’s a full blown PC that would work very nicely as a home server for Jellyfin etc. The RAM will limit the utility, though.

Yeah that’s just so dumb. Also, i wouldn’t be comfortable with the OS on eMMC storage. That’s hardly known for reliability. So close and yet so far.

You’d likely need all kinds of cryptographic keys to get anywhere with that. Tesla is unlikely to ever publish those, even if they go bankrupt.

Yes, do donate to FOSS projects. At least that money will go to people who do the actual work and not to pad corporate profits.

How do you connect them? Via SATA? Do you have a drive enclosure?