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I use FreshRSS. Can’t say I love the interface, but with the open and standardized API, there are dozens of beautiful front ends to choose on any device.

For real? Damn it that’s going to be painful.

Never ask a man his pay, a woman her weight, or a data horder the contents of their stash.

Jk. Mostly.

I have a similar-ish set up to @Davel23 , I have a couple of cool use cases.

• I seed the last 5 arch and opensuse (a few different flavors) ISOs at all times

• I run an ArchiveBot for archive.org

• I scan nontrivial mail (the paper kind) and store it in docspell for later OCR searches, tax purposes etc.

• I help keep Sci-Hub healthy

• I host several services for de-googling, including Nextcloud, Blocky, Immich, and Searxng

• I run Navidrome, that has mostly (and hopefully will soon completely) replace Spotify for my family.

• I run Plex (hoping to move to Jellyfin sometime, but there’s inertial resistance to that) that has completely replaced Disney streaming, Netflix streaming, etc for me and my extended family.

• I host backups for my family and close friends with an S3 and WebDAV backup target

I run 4x14TB, 2x8TB, 2x4TB, all from serverpartsdeals, in a ZFS RAID10 with two 1TB cache dives, so half of the spinning rust usable at ~35TB, and right now I’m at 62% utilization. I usually expand at about 85%

these toy OSs don’t solve day to day problems the way that Windows, Mac, and Linux did when they first came to market.

Yes, this is the exact point I made in my first post. And in depth in my response.

Disingenuous how? You don’t think Linux solved a real day to day need of it’s first users?

Sure, from Torvald’s perspective, it was a project specifically to solve a small problem he had. He wanted to develop for a nix platform, but Minix wouldn’t work on his hardware, and the other *Nixs were out of reach.

And this was generally true in the market as well. Linux arrived just in time and was “good enough” to address a real gap, where Minix was limited in scope to basically just education, Hurd was in political development hell, and the other Nixs were targeted at massive servers and mainframes. Linux filled the “*Nix for the rest of us, inexpensively” niche, eventually growing in scope to displace its predecessors, despite their decades of additional professionalism and maturity.

That niche is now filled, the gap no longer exists. A “New Linux” wouldn’t displace Linux, because the original already suits the needs we have well enough. This is precisely why the BSDs and Solaris were “too little, too late”. They were in many ways better than Linux, but the problems they solve compared to Linux are tiny and highly debatable. Linux addressed a huge, day to day need of people who were motivated to help.

Yeah exactly. Toy OSs have only increased in scope, scale, and number. And the public is still completely unaware, because these toy OSs don’t solve day to day problems the way that Windows, Mac, and Linux did when they first came to market.

Newegg came under new management years ago and has gone into the “drop-shipping for random shady merchants” business.

Do not use modern Newegg.

There is a team, not a sole dev.

I’m not saying everything is roses and rainbows, but this is FUD messaging being spread openly by the mbin dev team.

I’ve had great experiences with exactly one vendor of second hand disks.

https://serverpartdeals.com/

Currently running 8x14TB in a striped & mirrored zpool.

Really all I do is setup fail2ban on my very few external services, and then put all other access behind wireguard.

Logs are clean, I’m happy.

Yeah, you should be scrubbing weekly or monthly, depending on how often you are using the data. Scrub basically touches each file and checks the checksums and fixes any errors it finds proactively. Basically preventative maintenance.
https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/man8/zpool-scrub.8.html

Set that up in a cron job and check zpool status periodically.

No dedup is good. LZ4 compression is good. RAM to disk ratio is generous.

Check your disk’s sector size and vdev ashift. On modern multi-TB HDDs you generally have a block size of 4k and want ashift=12. This being set improperly can lead to massive write amplification which will hurt throughput.
https://www.high-availability.com/docs/ZFS-Tuning-Guide/

How about snapshots? Do you have a bunch of old ones? I highly recommend setting up a snapshot manager to prune snapshots to just a working set (monthly keep 1-2, weekly keep 4, daily keep 6 etc) https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid

And to parrot another insightful comment, I also recommend checking the disk health with SMART tests. In ZFS as a drive begins to fail the pool will get much slower as it constantly repairs the errors.

ZFS is a very robust choice for a NAS. Many people, myself included, as well as hundreds of businesses across the globe, have used ZFS at scale for over a decade.

Attack the problem. Check your system logs, htop, zpool status.

When was the last time you ran a zpool scrub? Is there a scrub, or other zfs operation in progress? How many snapshots do you have? How much RAM vs disk space? Are you using ZFS deduplication? Compression?

How could he make matters worse when he has the best words and the biggliest brain?!!

It can. Most people just use the filesystem watcher, but this looks nice. https://github.com/deathbybandaid/tdarr_inform

Highly recommend using tdarr. Not just because the radarr container won’t do it, but because tdarr is so incredibly powerful.

I’ve had excellent luck with Docspell. https://github.com/eikek/docspell

https://bridge.simplefin.org/ with this. It costs, but I spot checked some finicky banks, and they’re supported, so I suspect the coverage is quite good.

GitLab and GitHub were always developed separately by completely different people and have never shared code.

Soap from Stirling Soapworks. Incredible quality and scents, fair pricing. Goes hand in hand with my wetshaving.

Deodorant/Antiperspirant, Old Spice Timber or Gentleman Jack Cedar.

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