One alternative for those who don't want any of the major NAS vendors, just use RHEL10. It's free up to 16 licenses, it's ultra stable, cockpit is a very mature gui for a lot of maintenance tasks.
It's a set and forget OS that will run for years without requiring your attention. But these days it has decent container support for hosting services on.
I actually suggested a solution like this 2 years ago, because so many drivers are bad at signaling. I wanted a camera that used machine learning to learn a driver's cues when they're making a turn, and eventually it would be able to activate the signals for the driver.
I'm sick and tired of standing on the side of the road with my dog and waiting for a car just for it to make a turn. FOAD
I am rarely in a rush, if a car signals I will allow it to turn, I will stand back and wait, no problem. But 80% of them are really bad at this.
I agree, we used to have photo albums in cupboards, and they used to get burnt if the house burned down, or water damaged if the boiler broke, or even stolen. Now we have them digitally and we can back them up off-site. That's all the change I need with immich.
To fully encrypt them would just be inviting more problems.
Me and all my friends are active homelabbers and selfhosters.
Recently one had their first baby, so they migrated from Fedora to RHEL, just to spend less time on upgrades. :D I thought that was cute. Like RHEL is so stable, even a first time parent can use it.
If you want to get a good idea of how different modern Linux APIs are now compared to before. Look at cPanel vs. cockpit.
cPanel had to maintain its own unified API above a slew of other interfaces, while Cockpit benefits from a unified OS API. And we're only getting started, we still have a long way to go.
Yes I love the diversity of the open source ecosystem, I love that people are free to create their own distros without systemd. But I love my distros with systemd too much to switch.
Systemd resistance is silly to me. Systemd is what is turning Linux into a viable modern OS. You need something to tie all the parts of the OS together with a unified API, otherwise you'll be fighting fragmentation constantly.
I don't like the age verification thing either, but all systemd did was add a field for it, it's still up to your distro to use it.
But wait, the work seems to be from the 2nd century, but it was buried during the Vesuvius eruption in the 1st century?
I love stuff like this because it gives a glimpse into Roman society. To me it seems like they were very similar to us today, forever contemplating learning, existence, gods.
I've been sharing author's view for quite a while now, namely that there must exist a market of goods to give a currency real value.
But I must contradict the author, because there is a market of goods, and bitcoin is indirectly involved in it. Namely the dark web market of drugs.
People love drugs, and they use a lot of them, drugs turnover a huge amount of value. And right now people are buying bitcoin, because it's often safe to buy, and exchanging it for monero, that they then use to buy drugs.
I'm very much interested in this market, and how it affects crypto.
It should go without saying that all humans are flawed, regardless of their training, their uniform, their position in society.
The local pedohunters group dumpen.se in Sweden actually caught a cop trying to meet a fictional 14 year old, and the cop used his access to public CCTV to check the meeting point before going there.
So you deploy a new VM from a template, shut it down, take a backup and then restore that backup to your target node. Is all this done with IaC? Ansible? Even the backup part?
I'm not the person you replied to, but I came from using VMware products for 12 years, to using Proxmox this last 1.5 years.
These are my impressions.
First of all it's a very competent product, mainly thanks to Ceph making it HCI. Without Ceph, I'm not sure what we would do.
It's as effective as you design it, make sure to separate storage and cluster traffic to ensure robustness, and speed. Make sure to use at least 10GbE switch for storage, for fast migrations.
And managing ceph is very important, basically boils down to 1) never let it run out of space, and 2) the more devices you have the easier it is to manage.
Automating against Proxmox definitely is the biggest pain point, and this needs the most work done.
I've spent countless hours, pre-AI, building our automation setup using both Terraform and Ansible. I sort of wish I had tried AI earlier because it does make things easier.
Some things like automating the creation of templates will forever be a complex procedure in Ansible. And I abandoned Terraform completely because the API was too unpredictable for Terraforms strict state, Ansible was a much better fit.
Their AuthZ takes some getting used to, the fact that if you select "Privilege Separation" it countes the user's permissions AND the token permissions, and the token permissions must always be lower than the users.
Templates existing on one node, but taking a unique VM ID across the cluster is also a bit confusing. It means in practice we're always deploying VMs on the same node, before migrating them somewhere else.
I agree, with the state of things as they are now.
I prefer AP for one reason, it's more accessible to the people. I would prefer to see small computer organisations with member fees, and donations, that run their own little node, instead of huge monolithic components.
That's why I never liked bsky, because it was too monolithic. I never liked the monolithic AP instances either. If we're going to decentralize, let's properly decentralize.
As soon as something becomes huge and monolithic, it's a red flag.
ATproto sacrifices true decentralization for consistency, Mastodon and AP does the opposite, sacrifices true consistency for more accessible decentralization.
At least that's how I understand it, because running an AP node is much more accessible to regular selfhosters than running one of those content relays in AT.
So all you'll ever "decentralize" in AT is your own data, it's more about owning your data rather than collectively owning a part of the network.
Just an ex-con trying to fly straight and get his kids back.