Diplomjodler

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?

Having just a single drive doesn’t really provide a lot of security. I’d want at least two drives in a RAID config.

On the other hand, having one home server that does it all has its advantages. I have a mini PC with an N100 processor and two HDD drive bays. It hosts my Docker containers and holds my data. As long as you install all the software on the internal drive and keep only the data on the HDDs in RAID, you should be pretty safe. I hope. So far I’ve managed not to fuck it up.

Greetings, fellow geezer! And yes, I’ve been there too. My first foray on the web was with Lynx, a text based browser. Left me pretty underwhelmed. But once I actually tried Mosaic, I was instantly converted.

So in what way is that better than Lemmy?

If you get a Synology or the like, it’ll work fine as a NAS but be limited as a home server. These things are pretty limited in terms of processing power and they’re ARM based, so that limits what you can run on them. So either you’d have to get a separate server in addition to the NAS or build a server that’ll also work as a NAS.