In 3 years I haven’t had a single attempted connection that wasn’t me. Once you get to the ephemeral ports nobody is scanning that high.

I’m not saying run no security or something. Just nobody wants to scan all 65k ports. They’re looking for easy targets.

Change the port it runs on to be stupid high and they won’t bother.

Zfs through trunas will let you do raid 1, then jbod more raid 1s as you add more drives. That’s how I’ve gradually gone from 2 12TB, to 14TBs, the. Finally up to 20TBs without any hassle. I’m sure other software raids will do the same.

Why have two computers doing basically the same job when you could just have one?

Have the NAS be the media server and save power and get better performance.

As long as they’re not back to back I don’t mind. But what I HATE is people that spam out like 30 posts in one go. I don’t want an entire page to be posts from one person/community.

I especially hate it when it’s the exact same link, but different communities (shouldn’t be an issue for OP, but I hate that shit). Lemmy really needs to fix that. I don’t mind people cross posting 30 times, but I only want to see the same link once per page.

Plex really needs to do a Tailscale style connection to your server. But instead they chose to keep their outdated method of funneling all of their traffic through their servers, and need to charge lots of money in order to pay for it.

Would you rather a difficult and hard to use program?

Easy to use means people will want to adopt it, and that’s what VC companies want. Nobody wants to pay millions of dollars to make a program that nobody wants to use.

No need to port forward, almost 0 config.

https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works

I’m aiming for a low power build, that should be rather compact,

Considering that OP was targeting an N100 I don’t think an old Xeon, especially one without integrated graphics, would be close to that.

It’s been like this for over a year now, it’s purely visual it doesn’t affect anything. You’re still subscribed.

You just need to go for non small form factor machines. Anything with half height pcie cards is going to have like 1 3.5” bay max.

That said they rarely have much 3.5” space anyways so building is typically better. You can usually find a CPU mobo ram combo for cheap online. Then just pick a case and power supply and you’re good to go.

Hard to tell from that photo, but from this eBay screenshot it appears to be a laptop hard drive slot so no. You could get a 2.5” drive in there though.

Honestly I just use Apple Podcasts, crucify me.

I just blocked the instance entirely. I’m not interested in seeing porn browsing lemmy, and I doubt the people who made an account on the porn community are posting the most enlightening non porn stuff.

Not necessarily. Tailscale uses their own servers in order to do the negotiation, but once the connections are opened on both ends you should be directly connected to each other. All without port forwarding or any config on your end.

https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works

Make the account

Export your subscriptions/saved/other settings in the lemmy settings. Then import that on the new account.

Start with a VM on your computer and see what you want to do/need from there.

Leaving a laptop on is (almost) free.

1/3 of my refurbished drives died early. It tested fine before I put it in my raid array, but about 3 months in I was getting error after error. I swapped it with my spare and they’ve been fine so far.

This is one.

https://www.nocix.net/dedicated/

What are you trying to run? a VPS is pennies, and a phyiscal server isn’t much more. We have a bunch of servers that are $40 a month each and they come with 5 usable IPs, 32 gigs of ram, 1tb SSD etc. The cost of getting a static IP for home will be almost as much as a server. If you want less you can get less for a lot less money.

I’ve self hosted my own personal website for years now and it’s not really an issue outside of the power going out and my IP changing. I just update DNS and move on. But if this is for an actual work? Just pay the $10 a month, not having to worry about it is worth that money.