I guess you can also use NFS/iSCSI for images too?

I will just get an AMD (7745HX?) mini PC with adequate RAM and call it a day. It should run almost anything that you throw in a light setup with minimal power usage.

Ops. Missed that part.

I use BTRFS for snapshots, and auto compression. Maybe it can be done with raids with LVM? AFAIK BTRFS redundancy is basically the same as traditional RAID, similar to using mdadm. Still, you would want a backup strat instead relying on the disk redundancy. I learn that the hardway.

I would just skip RAID, add all disk to a single BTRFS and use the built in profiles for (meta)data redundancy.

Cache I don’t know much tho.

https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/btrfs-device.html

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Unless you want to game. Anti-cheats are notorlessly anti-virtual machines.

Never heard of them. Will check them out sometime. Thx.

Appflowy if Notion appels you. It is not 1.0 yet so some features you need might not be there.

https://appflowy.io/

I’m using Postmark for my Vaultwarden. Nothing major I know of.

What’s “ethical”?

Then I don’t see any problem for them just put down $50 more.

I didn’t say it isn’t legit nor I distrust automation, but I would like to see anyone operating an online shop paid for a cert to show they are honest and won’t diappear in thin air not delivering. Am I going to get back what I paid, properly not, but a basic DV cert isn’t expensive either for a business.

I don’t believe paid cert can’t use automation to keep certs upto date.

Proof: https://docs.digicert.com/en/certcentral/certificate-tools/certificate-lifecycle-automation-guides/automation-service-overview.html

Personally, I distrust any ecommerce site that uses any free cert. I see paid cert as a commitment to do honest business, as they need to have some records on the CA.

But for a blog or anythings other than ecommerce is totally fine by me.

Note: It is not about security, nor automation, but a show commitment (i.e. buying a cert), largely psycological.

As long as it fits into the slot, it should work.

I think OP is quite clear that he wants something resembles to Telegram’s UI, but works with XMPP instead. The title is just part of the context. You still have to read the body, which uses terms “interface” and “UI”. This means he never intend something server side.

I won’t say your comment is inaccurate, but taken out of context and misinterpret what the OP means.

OP, I understand what you look for, but that’s not easy task. From my limited knowledge of apps development, achieving what you requested would likely be:

1. Identify and remove all relevent code to the backend. Easier if it’s modular, very hard if they’re litrered everywhere.
2. Chose a XMPP client library that have relavent extension support that can translate Telegram features that XMPP understands.
3. Write an adaptor (if modular) to match the methods signature and translates calls to the client library. Or reimplement all the code you removed (if littered everywhere) with the client library.

This is akin to swaping to a new engine for a car, with incompatible mounts. Diffcult to execute, and (I believe) low interest. You can try if you got the skills. I don’t and even I have, I will just use SimpleX which fits my needs.

OP already clearly stated he want to use XMPP. What OP is asking is some client features the functionality of Telegram client. Or a fork of Telegram client, gutted out every signle line of code interact with the backend, replace them with a XMPP client library.

IMO LLMs are ok to get a head start of searching. Like got a vague idea of something but don’t know the exact keywords. LLMs can help and use the output on whatever search engine you like. This saves a lots of time tinkering the right keywords.