I’ve been running an HP ProDesk 600 G4 mini (i5-8500T, 32 GB RAM) for a few years now and am very happy. I bought it with 8 or 16 GB RAM and a 256 GB M.2 for 140 €. It can fit one 2.5" SATA drive and two M.2 2280 drives. I have it running 24/7/365 with 2x2 TB M.2 SSDs and a 256 GB boot SSD and it usually uses around 7 Watts.

If you want to go the HP route, ProDesk 600 and EliteDesk 800 have two M.2 slots, while the ProDesk 400 only has one.

Alternatively, Lenovo and Dell also have similar formfactor PCs, but I don’t remember their names.

Performance wise, the 8th gen i5 is more than fine for TrueNAS and 10-15 docker containers.

Interesting, why is that? Like what feature is that?

Ah indeed, ALT+S does nothing. I must have pressed both before realizing it was frozen.

On my Terminal that just makes it so I can’t type anymore, I feel like I’m doing something wrong…

My solution to the problem is CTRL+U, type sudo, CTRL+Y.

If you’re a fan of Windows 7 I can highly recommend aerothemeplasma for the full experience!

I don’t use it anymore as I switched to TrueNAS which has the functionality built in, but I used to use docking-station.

Your mention of unix_surrealism is a good point, it really is quite a unique community.

Also for me, the 3 day no poop question will forever be deeply tied to lemmy. It only unfolded days after I first joined, and I believe it was the first big piece of lemmy lore.

For me I’d just say oh well, gotta fix it when I’m home again.

Otherwise I’d probably write some script on the server, which reboots my router when the server either doesn’t have internet anymore or can’t ping itself.

Verifying yourself wasn’t what I meant, sorry that was a bit unclear. I meant make sure you don’t fall for marketing bs, and maybe try to use the same good source of info for comparison. I usually compare projector specs on https://www.projectorcentral.com/, they have specs on the vast majority of projectors out there.

I’d be wary with old business projectors, their blacks usually suck ass. Specifically I’d heavily prefer Epson EH-TW and Optoma Home theater projectors to Epson EB projectors. The difference in color is night and day.

The audio advice is solid though.

Make sure you don’t get scammed on a projector, always make sure to look at the native resolution, not the “supported” one. Also make sure to verify the lumens, all the listings with 10.000 lumens are using a different kind of lumens than those with 800 - 3000.

Last but not least, I wouldn’t get anything used with over 2000 lamp hours.

For those confused, it’s a space suit. I thought it was pajamas for way too long though.

AFAIK you can enable the snapcast server and then use an app like SnapCast to stream to your mobile devices.

I was pretty neutral towards Ubuntu, up until an automatic system update removed my deb Firefox and replaced it with the snap version, even though I specifically set the apt repo to a higher priority.

The entire reason I left Windows is because I don’t want (for example) Edge shoved down my throat after every update, and yet Ubuntu has gone and done the exact same thing with snaps.

After literal hours of fighting, the only solution I found was to fully disable automatic updates. With Pop OS I have all the benefits of Ubuntu, but I also get a company (System76) that does cool stuff and doesn’t try shoving snaps down my throat.

I also use Posteo, one thing to note though is that Posteo doesn’t (and probably won’t any time soon) support custom domains. If that doesn’t bother you, it’s a great choice.

The other alternative I found during my research, which doesn’t have that limitation, is mailbox.org.

If the main battery isn’t “meant to be replaced”, it will often act as the CMOS battery (e.g. MacBooks have been doing this since roughly 2008).

I find it even more puzzling as surely it has to be a decent increase in server demand to constantly be streaming video. How can that be worth it??

Yesss fcast looks incredibly promising. Sadly the only app implementing it seems to be GrayJay, I really hope it will catch on more.

TVHeadend is the way, I’ve been running it with a USB satellite tuner for 5+ years. Setting it up can be a little confusing, but once it’s running you pretty much never have to touch it again.

As for clients, there’s a Jellyfin plugin, however it seems to not work for me right now.

My client of choice is Kodi with the TVHeadend plugin, and that works great. If you still want Jellyfin integration, you could just add your recordings folder as a library in Jellyfin.

Could I purchase two different brand drives and use them with btrfs?

I don’t quite remember the source for this, but I believe I read some time ago that it’s actually a good thing to have separate drives. The reasoning is, if you buy two identical drives (at the same time), the likelyhood of both drives failing around the same time is severely higher.

This is then amplified by the fact that rebuilding a RAID puts a lot of strain on the non-dead drive, so if ie. drive 1 dies and drive 2 is about to die, the strain you put on drive 2 in order to rebuild your RAID onto drive 3 might kill drive 2 before you even finish rebuilding your RAID.

Again, this is just from my memory, it might be worth doing some more research on.