Time is merely a perspective. I’ve been doing this for 20 years.

Perhaps it is overblown, but one of the reasons I have 8 drives is because I wanted to run raidz2 for the extra redundancy. I’ve had multiple drives die before and so as disk sizes have gone up more redundancy has been important (at least I thought so).

So when my first ZFS NAS (4 disks) developed hardware failure, I decided to get more serious about it. Hence larger rack device with a proper Xeon with ECC memory and an HBA for 8 disks + 2 SSDs and the old drives that survived as a play space. I’ve also used this server now for 9 years.

Node 304

That is a really nice small form factor case. I was recently looking at Fractal’s Define 7 XL because it can hold an amazing 18 3.5" + SSDs.

Welcome. I personally found it necessary because YouTube’s algo kept giving mostly QOP nazi propaganda starting back in 2016.

Wow, that didn’t used to be that way. I guess things have changed over the years.

Because of their contractor status they may not have any grounds to do so. Looks real shitty though for sure.

Exactly what I said

100% fresh

Considering what Google did to the jabber protocol, we can all be glad they gave up, IMO.

You’d be surprised at how many folks take it personally…

Anyone that has a production postgres deployment. For backups.

Thanks for sharing this, is extremely interesting

Yes. And the devices also should be able to pass you between nodes for optimal reception.

This can be done by openwrt too, with the right hardware.

Sounds legit to me

Happy to hear it

Its better we stop depending on the single points of failure anyway. The psychopaths will always do whatever they want in the name of the shareholder - even when its not true.

I got one Samsung TV for free for one reason or another – it never really worked properly because all its spyware shit kept tripping up on my custom DNS server.

Yeah the n5105 looks like a nice little processor. I also liked that those boards come with the i226-V 2.5GbE controller.

For myself, I really wanted wifi 6e and something able to mesh (for the happy wife factor) so I recently purchased the TP Link Deco. It should arrive in a week or so.

Personally, I would have preferred to setup OpenWRT for a nice mesh but for some reason there are no Wifi 6 ones yet let alone 6e.

Thank you @coffelov for your timely post - I was going to post a very similar question myself today. What sort of hardware are you considering to use for your pfsense server?

There are a lot of possible solutions that could be suitable, wondering what sort of hardware you were thinking about.

Especially with Jerboa already in place, its IMO a good switch.

The one thing that worries me is all that useful info trapped on Reddit, if Lemmy data expires then that has a long term cost/loss which is sad.

Just that you support the lemmy community.