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monkeyman512 ,

I can't give you specifics but generally what is likely necessary:

  1. Backup anything important. You will be doing things that risk loosing data.
  2. Make a bootable USB with a live Linux.
  3. Look up instructions on resizing partitions.
  4. Boot into the live Linux from the USB
  5. Resize your existing Proxmox partition
monkeyman512 ,

I would also make sure you have a Proxmox install USB ready to go just in case.

monkeyman512 ,

I am running Plex with an Intel A40 in Ubuntu server. Worked well for me as Ubuntu had the drivers baked in before they made there way into a Debian release.

monkeyman512 ,

In general checkout LearnLinuxTV on YouTube. Lots of good guides.

monkeyman512 ,

Dude, your waist effort. They are a troll with the goal of stirring up shit. Talking to them accomplishes nothing of value.

How much does it matter what type of harddisk i buy for my server?

Hello, I'm relatively new to self-hosting and recently started using Unraid, which I find fantastic! I'm now considering upgrading my storage capacity by purchasing either an 8TB or 10TB hard drive. I'm exploring both new and used options to find the best deal. However, I've noticed that prices vary based on the specific...

monkeyman512 ,

Other people have suggested good info to gain nuisanced knowledge. I recommend starting with a simple fact. With enough time and/or the right conditions all storage will fail. Design your setup with redundancy. I personally had to replace 2x 12tb drives this year. I have raidz3 (3 parity drives) and a hot spare. So I just bought cheap replacements from a reputable seller on eBay and consider it part of the cost of self hosting.

monkeyman512 ,

Just put them in a separate library and only share it with people that ask for it.

monkeyman512 ,

My guess is the motherboard manufacturers could get away with this in the past without any issues. But Intel is pushing chips so close to redline out of the box that now it causes problems.

monkeyman512 ,

A lot of the people who are drawn to Linux want to be able to tinker with things. For your use case you would probably be perfectly happy with installing Ubuntu, getting the apps you need, then not messing with it.

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    I have a Chromebook. It's a cheap web browser, good battery life, and I can use terminal to SSH into my stuff. It's good enough for my use case.

    monkeyman512 ,

    No idea. If I was worried about that I would just install a normal Linux distro on it.

    monkeyman512 ,

    They have more money to spend on lawyers is how.

    monkeyman512 ,

    A used older desktop is a good starting machine. I think Unraid is a good starting point as the community is more welcome to completely new people needing a lot of help. Also this channel has a tone of good guides for Unraid:
    https://youtube.com/@SpaceinvaderOne?si=A8BWLbMq42KzHD8I

    I suggest starting off cheap to learn. Then you can spend money as you determine what is necessary based on problems you encounter. One VERY important thing to remember is that HDDs fail, power surges kill motherboards, water leaks kill the whole thing. If you don't want to loose family photos, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE IT BACKED UP OFF YOUR SERVER. Preferably "off-site".

    monkeyman512 ,

    Try looking into "autofs".

    monkeyman512 ,

    Yes. The important detail is that it remounts the path once the path gets called. So I setup a cron job to "ls" the path every few minutes to make sure it's always remounted quickly.

    monkeyman512 ,

    Do you think using a steam deck counts? On one hand it is Linux, but on the other hand the default experience is more of a console than a PC.

    monkeyman512 ,

    Most likely cost of entry and ease of use. Those are the things most people are going to be concerned with.

    monkeyman512 ,

    I think 2 good concepts come to mind to help you make choices:

    1. Least privilege - Only give things/people just enough access/authority to get the job done. A good example is sonarr doesn't need access to your personal photos to do it's job, so don't give it access if to them.
    2. Defense in layers - Nothing is perfect and you can make mistakes in configuration. Don't rely on a single point of failure to protect you. If you want remote access use a VPN. But also take steps in your network like putting a password on the logins.

    Computer RAM gets biggest upgrade in 25 years but it may be too little, too late — LPCAMM2 won't stop Apple, Intel and AMD from integrating memory directly on the CPU (www.techradar.com)

    Computer RAM gets biggest upgrade in 25 years but it may be too little, too late — LPCAMM2 won't stop Apple, Intel and AMD from integrating memory directly on the CPU::LPCAMM2 is a revolution in RAM, but it faces an uphill struggle

    monkeyman512 ,

    I think most people don't know the difference between "on-die" and "on-package". This may be what they mean: https://beebom.com/intel-meteor-lake-cpu-on-chip-ram/

    monkeyman512 ,

    If it still has working USB you can hook it up to a $10 raspberry pi with wifi to act as a print server. I can understand if that's a more ambitious tech project than your ready to take on.

    monkeyman512 ,

    I would stay away from kubernets/k3/k8s. Unless you want to learn it for work purposes, it's so overkill you can spend a month before you get things running. I know from experience. My current setup gives you options and has been reliable for me.

    NAS Box: Truenas Scale - You can have UnRaid fill this role.

    Services Hosting: Proxmox - I can spin up any VMs I need and lots of info online to do things like hardware passthrough to VMs.

    Containers: Debian VM - Debian makes a great server environment as it's stable and well supported. I just make this VM a docker swarm host. I managed things with Portainer for a web interface.

    I keep data on the NAS and have containers access it over the network. Usually a NFS share.

    monkeyman512 ,

    Gotta meet the customer where they are, not where you would like them to be. Most people don't want to learn a new thing.

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