Not at all! I upgraded the heavy lifters case fans to all noctuas, there’s still fan noise but it’s very easily drowned out. Actually the most noise came from my HAL model. Partly sunny days would trigger its sensor and it’d randomly start spewing lines.

The table (dm) might finally make the switch from roll20 to foundry for a campaign!

I ran into a similar issue when visiting some family. Even though I was connected to home via VPN, my devices wouldn’t pull servers by their IPs. Our networks were setup too similarly. I was able to fix it by editing my conf for the WG connection and added my static servers as allowed IPs. While still having to self host a server for accounting at work, we did a similar split setup so they would be able to use RDP to their desktops but all other traffic was ignored and handled locally. This forum post has pretty good, short explanation with some example config scenarios https://forum.mikrotik.com/t/wireguard-allowed-ips-unofficial-wireguard-documentation/156426

Opinion wise: love unifi for networking equipment. Especially since that equipment doesn’t require the web account. For a Nas, I’m in too deep already, I’ll only use equipment I fully control. I wouldn’t buy a Unifi NAS just like I wouldn’t buy a Synology, but I’ll keep leaning on my Unifi stuff as long as it keeps doing its job well.

As for using TrueNAS w/ZFS at home, go for it if you know and like it! I actually was recently given my boss’s old home NAS that used to run his Plex server. When I got it it was still on FreeNAS (same thing, just a few versions behind) and it’s using ZFS. Worked for him, and now works for me, no problem. Both of us also use Unifi equipment for our networks. The only problems we’ve ever had were our own doings.

Turns out I’m just an idiot. After trying a hail mary test of moving the keyboard nib into the back of the motherboard (again) the keyboard let me navigate through BIOS. Of course, all the USB settings were enabled lol and then I went to check the USB cable coming from the KVM, it had come partially unplugged.

Gotta love good ole user error!

Here’s the method I used from one of the issues on GitHub https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/12925#issuecomment-3516549977

Iirc my docker.socket wouldn’t let me just stop docker.service to edit it as described in the post, so I made /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/override.conf with the 2 required lines. After saving it and running daemon-reload I was able to access my containers in portainer again.

You can also add an override for the docker.service file to specify min api version 1.24. Had to do that last night

Terminus is nice and has a lot of platform options. Ive used on an old ipad in the past. If you have several machines, I highly recommend servercat. Works wonderfully on iphone, ipad, and Mac. It also has options to write and store commands to easily send out to any number of devices with a taps/clicks.

As said in another comment a bare metal Debian install likely wouldn’t be very smooth, or you’d have to run it within Android. Alternatively, if you want to run Linux directly on the phone you could try postmarketOS https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/OnePlus_5T_(oneplus-dumpling)

I can’t help as much with the exposing outward (I’m a basic bitch and just use ddns to expose mine since I can’t get a dedicated IP) but a separate vlan with rules to allow your primary vlan devices to see/talk to it, and block it to be able to see out of it’s own VLAN, would definitely be recommended.

Why not split the difference and do both. Hdd for storage and SSD for services/containers. To help with the power load/performance hit I’d recommend using a usb to sata adapter that has external power. Overall though it sounds like a micro optipl x would be great for you. They’re cheap, more powerful, but still sip power, and usually can fit nvme and 2.5" drives together.

Is the Hba in a traditional server case with lots of airflow? My 9207-8i displayed a similar issue bc it didn’t have enough direct cooling (it’s not in a traditional server/case.) it would never show more than 2 drives at a time and they would often vanish. Once I mounted a fan to it, the Hba has been stable and showing every drive I attach

I tell people, like my friend that wanted a bunch of drivel kids stuff, that if they give me 2 hard drives I’ll set them up as their own library.

That’s unfortunate you have to put in a ticket. They should be able to help you with this during a 5-10m phone call. Hopefully they get to your ticket in a timely manner

Can the ISP at the remote location remove your remote location from the NAT? I have a similar issue where sometimes it’s will reset and my services are inaccessible. A quick call to support usually has the problem fixed in a few minutes.

Fishwaldo is pretty active in the #pinetab chat from what I’ve seen. If you have matrix, discord, or irc you could jump into the pine64 chats and ask him

Only my emby and ombi containers has an open path in/out, everything else is local or VPN only

Volumio might work. It has a subsonic plugin.

Miridore is self hosted and free

If you want to be able to watch/preview the HEIC images, you can edit the available mime type for Nextcloud’s Viewer. (I do this to our company’s NC so customers can use viewer for PDFs and employees can get previews/thumbnails of TIFFs, AIs and PSDs. For HEIC, just go to your NC’s ‘apps/viewer/js/viewer-main.js’ and add ‘image/heic’ and ‘image/heic-sequence’ to the mimetype list (about halfway down, I hgihly recommend using VSCode+a formatter to make finding it easier)