Intel AMT also works for out of band management on consumer hardware.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a quality brand PSU go out on me. Software RAID like MD or ZFS works fine on basically any hardware, and I wouldn’t use hardware RAID these days anyways.

I used to worry about that stuff and use enterprise hardware, but its just so expensive for decent performance, and so power hungry.

Like try and match even a budget i3-12100 or similar for single thread performance (needed for game servers mostly) and you really can’t with used enterprise gear. Plus that i3 has an iGPU that can handle a ton of transcoding tasks, and ML for stuff like immich search or frigate object detection. And it uses about 10w or less most of the time.

Or even:

1. Visit website Y that uses a service to fingerprint and track users.
2. Fingerprint is now stored with tracking company.
3. Every other website that uses said tracking service now knows who you are regardless of using a VPN or clearing cookies.

Yeah media is a good use case for it, and doesnt really need cache either.

It can’t, you lose space efficiency if the disks you add aren’t the same size as the old disks.

It has no parity, you can pair with snapraid but thats snapshot parity and not real-time parity. Depends on the use case if that would work or not.

Also no caching options.

The difference is I can do something about my downtime and fix it.

Linux/opensource naming can be the wildest stuff.

The big thing is very easily mix and match different sizes of disks. ZFS as of recently can sort of do that, but its not as efficient.

I’ve never thought about instance drama or worried about any of that stuff, I just hang out and interact with the communities I like.

Maybe you’re overthinking things too much.

Sure as long as its able to be unlocked, it doesnt matter that you already switched.

Can also switch it to the LTSC version for 6 more years of updates I believe.

It seems like every Linux distro I’ve used both of those will work fine.

Oh dang now I want to get a group together for that, I loved crysis multiplayer

For #3 every service will say something like that, even with paid accounts.

The main things that come to mind are you have to test/monitor 2 seperate actions instead of 1, and restores of single files could be more difficult since you need to login to the backup server, restore the file from a snapshot, then also copy that file back to your PC.

How does that get sent over rsync though? Wouldn’t you need snapshots on the remote destination server?

Why not just use a backup utility instead?

What happens if you accidentally overwrite something important in a document and save it though? If there’s no incremental versioning you can’t recover from that.

Yeah but then it’s not really a good backup!

Don’t log in to the container shell to edit files, just edit the file on your host directly.

Make sure the permissions allow the user searxng is running as access as well.