Good point about platform agnostic remote for management stuff. VNC is ideal for this.

And systems like Proxmox use a web GUI for most stuff, it’s a touch slow but I think that’s mostly just waiting for the system to finish the actual changes I make, and not the UI.

It uses some form of VNC (forget the name). Performance is fine for the VMs for non-video stuff.

You can run whatever you want inside a VM too.

Works for me, but damn it’s dog snot slow. Like typing takes 1-2 seconds for each character to show up

There was a post recently about “.LAN” recently being added to the DNS spec

Why would you run local traffic over the VPN?

I decided there simply were not enough docker apps for downloading Youtube videos, and so I made the situation worse :p

You get my upvote for this alone!

The other cost to home lab serving lots of data is internet limits.

My internet will throttle after X terabytes (I forget the limit), whether upstream or down, and of course upload is slower.

It’s like playing a game of tetris with costs, performance, stability, reliability, flexibility, privacy, security, and personal effort.

I’m not saying don’t have a home lab, just that there are things to consider. It’s worth the effort for me, though I’m working to move some things to cloud storage (e.g. Hetzner/Storj.io) and a VPS to get some of the bandwidth off my connection, and remove my home internet as a bottleneck or failure point.

That’s not much of an answer, I’m not reading docs because you can’t be bothered. I don’t use NixOS, so if you want to use that as an example, you’ll need to put in the effort to explain how it’s different.

If you don’t want to use LDAP, don’t. Then you get to manage each user account on each device.

To be frank, it seems like you have an adversarial attitude about this, and you think NixOS is the answer. Every one of your responses has been “but” whatever. You don’t seem like you want to understand how to use things, just complain it doesn’t work the way you think it should.

You need backup local admin accounts, not Backups for each user.

Which is how enterprise does things. There are local accounts with root access, but the id’s and passwords are tightly controlled.

Meaning what?

What’s wrong with LDAP for users? (I’m trying to think of a negative, and can’t).

“Rarely happens”

And yet it still happens often enough if you touch enough boxes or make enough changes across enough boxes.

The thing is, you never know when or where an unbootable box is going to occur. This is why I’ve carried a loaded thumbdrive for ~20 years (Lacie IAmAKey was my latest, wish they still made them - mine finally died. Knockoffs are available, unfortunately the casing is aluminum, not stainless, so they’re easy to bend). And why I keep hot spares around.

If your batteries are dying that fast, you’re doing something wrong.

You’re saying that data centers are replacing batteries constantly…just imagine the labor costs on that (and the down time), not even considering the material cost.

I work in enterprise, and have never heard such a thing. Even my friends in SMB routinely replace UPS’s at the 5-year mark, the same time they replace servers. They rarely replace batteries, at all, it’s so rare that it’s notable.

Just reduce accuracy while in a vehicle?

IP4 is shit

Lol, right, right. It’s only run the internet for what, 40 years now?

Guess you missed the recent gaping hole in IP6 on Windows?

IP6 is only really useful in large (i.e. enterprise) environments . It offers no practical benefit to small networks at the moment.

And even enterprise will only switch as they build out new infrastructure. The cost to switch is very high, and the risk is far more concerning than any potential benefit.

Currently I have terrible local password rules.

Once I get my Vaultwarden reinstalled, everything will use properly managed passwords, with 2FA for things like servers/services/admin accounts (routers, DNS, etc).

Nah, fuck that blue bird. Glad to see it’s demise

Yep, spec a case to meet the drive needs, then find the motherboard that meets the performance needs.

This is the answer.

I’m currently running 2 boxes, one an old desktop with space for 8 full-size drives (which it has). The other is a Dell SFF with three 2.5" drives as a media server/testbed.

Hard to heat either one for the cost. To buy the equivalent of the SFF as a pre-built NAS, I’d have to spend $1500.

Selective Sync is the one feature that Resilio provides that I use.

It enables me to grab any file, using any device, at any time, from anywhere, over any network, simply and quickly. I really wish Syncthing had this capability. Oh well.

So if I’m traveling, I can download a movie from my library with my phone or iPad while connected to hotel wifi. The Resilio UI is simpler than turning on Tailscale, launching a file explorer connecting to my server, then copying. Plus it’s a robust sync job - I don’t have to think about it, if the network goes away, Resilio will pick up the sync again when it can. On my mobile devices, Resilio is only run if started by the user, but Syncthing runs all the time to ensure stuff like photos, downloaded files, Backups, etc, are sync’d to my server.

I switched from Resilio to Syncthing for everything else (mobile devices mostly, since I can use other tools on laptops), because it’s much lighter to run. Resilio is hell on mobile devices if you have a large library, as it keeps the index in memory, while Syncthing uses a file-based approach for indexes. Resilio is also resource intensive on my server - again because of the large media library.