I find it really weird that something as simple as the basic functionality of nextcloud seemingly can’t be implemented in a stable and lightweight manner.

Nextcloud always seems one update away from self destruction and it prepares for that by hoarding all the resources it can get. It never feels fast or responsive. I just want a way to share files between my machines.

There are other solutions, I know, but they’re all terrible in their own way.

Have you considered something like tailscale?

See, again, nitpicky details, even though we both know exactly what was meant.

Oh, I’m terribly sorry that I didn’t use the exact wording that the semantic overlord required for his incantations.

Let’s recap, you only read the title, which by definition does not contain all the information, you wrote an extremely arrogant and absolutely not helpful comment, if challenged you answer with even more arrogance, and your only defense is nitpicky semantics, which even if taken at face value, do not change the value of your comment at all.

You are not helping anyone. No, not even others.

The closest one is about a trip over the Atlantic away.

It’s absolutely opaque to me, especially the non-big-name brands barely get any reliable reviews and especially given the silicon lottery, I can’t tell if every chip is like the reviewed ones.

If I just happen to get the bad module that craps out after 6 months, the positive reviews are not that helpful.

Honestly, that is the typical self-righteous stackoverflow response that is helping no one.

You know exactly what I mean, you know exactly how to treat the question, but you chose to play captain obvious of the second arrogance division and posted this.

Of course devices will fail at some point, what are you even trying to add here?

The clear answer is: don’t use subversion. There’s really no reason not to use git, since you can use git just like subversion if you want to.

Yes, I forgot that, it was a long day.

In general, one should check how much power actually costs versus buying a new device.

Even in Germany, having something draw 1W 24/7 costs something like 20 cents. It’s really not worth the hassle or money to micro optimize and buy something like an SSD.

Jellyfin on a NAS plus a cheap little box attached to the TV should be fine.

An old RPi3 could be enough. Only complications might be transcoding. If the player can’t handle the format, you might need to transcode, which could be taxing on the NAS.

How exactly is SSL terminated in your setup? Usually, you’d use something like nginx or apache for termination, but I don’t see that in your description?

So who exactly has the private key?

It’s a raspberry pi 1. Those things have 256mb of RAM and you simply won’t do much porting around pihole.

Containers do have limitations, and this is one.

Given the extremely limited resources: why bother with containers? You’re not going to run many other services anyway.

How exactly are you “losing” files?

My guess is, that those 5-6W on idle that gets thrown around in so many blog posts is probably just the CPU in idle state and not the whole board with io and other stuff.

Well, no.

My Futro has some old thin client AMD CPU and the HP Elitedesk g3 mini has an i5 6500T. Both idle at 5-7W (the HP is slightly higher).

My optiplex is just an SFF, so still a regular CPU (i5 6500, without the T), regular SFF power supply, etc. And that one draws 10-15W.

I use a cheap watt meter and the values from above are from that meter.

10-15W is what my Dell optiplex idles at.

I guess, it also depends on your load. My measurements were made at “basic setup idle”, so smb, k3s with a handful of idling containers, pihole. Since I’m the only user of these services and don’t use them that much, the load average is often enough way below 1 (at 4 cores). It’s absolutely possible that someone with higher demands and higher loads pulls more power on average.

So, basically don’t use it.

I mean, I get the effort, but if you account for your own labor, the power savings probably will probably take years to amortise - even with high energy costs like here in Germany.

Just as a rule of thumb: 1W of constant power costs is at most 25cents (40cent/kwh, which is even high for Germany).

My pi 3 idles at 3-4W, my Futro at around 5-6W. I’d say that’s pretty close.

Second that.

RPis are still unbeaten in terms of power usage, but the difference to a low end thin client is small.

Cost isn’t really an argument either, you can get thin clients with case, psu and SSD for something like 40€.