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TCB13 , 4 months ago to linux in Fedora 41 with Proposal to Adopt DNF5

Personally I’ve found my home distro: Debian

Like someone who just wants a productive system.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to linux in Fedora 41 with Proposal to Adopt DNF5

Reduced System Footprint: By eliminating Python dependencies and merging the functionalities

Yes, I don’t get why people still insist on coding production grade stuff with a language that is effectively only suitable for educational purposes - maybe not even that because you would be brain damaging a generation of future developers.

Python is the modern equivalent of BASIC:

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TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in N100 Mini PC w/ 3xNVMe?

Yes, I’m in Europe with this Ukrainian/Russian mess whatever you’re paying I can assure you I’m paying more than most people reading this and you don’t see me freaking out about a mini PC. Even if you multiply everything above by 4 (and that will certainly go over wtv someone is paying right now) you’ll sill be talking about a very little money compared to everything else you’re running in our houses.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in N100 Mini PC w/ 3xNVMe?

Unlike some old second hand, new hardware is more powerful and energy efficient.

So… if I compare an N305 with an 8th gen i3 CPU it is about 2$/year in savings when it comes to power. Since a brand new N305-based machine will sell for at least 150$ more than a second hand HP Mini i3-8300T that means you’ve to run your N305 for 75 years to actually reach break even.

Look, I like the N305 but I would never get a cheap ass board when I can get a reliable machine with an older CPU like that i3 for a lot less money, it just doesn’t make sense. Power consumption is a nice metric to throw around, but once you run the math…

Besides, just google “minis forums uefi bug” and you’ll see. Those machines are about luck, you may have good results a few times but you’ll eventually get burned by some board with software or design issues.

CW p-5 (N305) as my router (opnsense)

Frankly, do you really need opnsense? If you were to remove that and just grab any decent router, even old hardware, like the R7800, and load it with OpenWrt you would be spending a lot less on power. Go ahead, name a opnsense feature that OpenWrt doesn’t have. :)

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in N100 Mini PC w/ 3xNVMe?

Maybe but they also presumably consume much more power?

If you pick one of those machines with a “T” CPU you won’t even notice them. They’ll downscale on idle to probably around the same power the N100 would. The real difference is that they’ll use more power if you demand more resources but even that that point do you really care about a few watts?

Before anyone loses their minds, imagine you get the i3-8300T model that will peak at 25W, that’s about 0.375$ a month to run the thing assuming a constant 100% load that you’ll never have.

Even the most cheap ass cloud service out there will be more expensive than running that unit at 100% load. People like to freak about power consumption yet it’s not their small mini PC that ruins their power bill for sure.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in N100 Mini PC w/ 3xNVMe?

For minipcs, have a look at aliexpress. They tend to have the branded options much cheaper than amazon. Trigkey, minisforum, Beelink, etc.

The OP would be better serve with a second hand mini computer from HP or Dell than that crap. AliExpress brands (including Minisforum) are all fun an games until you run into some UEFI bug that will never get a fix and won’t you boot some system or have some feature, or your board doesn’t have proper ESD protection and randomly fries when a USB device is inserted.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to linux in Are there any CPUs that work well with Linux that aren't made by Intel or another company on the BDS list/that supports Israel?

The OP is concerned about stability and you’re suggesting an experimental CPU that is plagued by UEFI bugs and is overly expensive? From what I’ve been even a cheap Chinese SBC with a Rockchip CPU is more stable and reliable than that thing.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to linux in Are there any CPUs that work well with Linux that aren't made by Intel or another company on the BDS list/that supports Israel?

I’ve no ideia what you’re rambling about. I can attest that the Ryzen 5 1600 and the Ryzen 5 2600 that aren’t even new CPUs run perfectly fine with Debian.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in Linux Note-taking app that supports CalDAV

There seems to be a request to add this to the new Thunderbird CaldDAV features: connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/…/46295

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in N100 Mini PC w/ 3xNVMe?

You can get those machines second hand for the price range you specified.

About the USB storage, just be careful about what OS you’re running. It is very important that you to manually configure the system not to write logs and other crap to the flash storage OR… you can pick something like Armbian (yes it does have a x86 version) that is already tweaked to run on SD card and other kinds of flash.

If cheap USB flash isn’t performant enough maybe a USB SSD of some kind (there are some that are NVMe) will most likely work you. Anyway don’t forget that USB may disconnect when pushed around and it can become a issue.

I frankly wouldn’t run anything over USB because it is painful but it is an option. Maybe make a solid case for your mini computer and the hard drive and bolt everything down into place.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in N100 Mini PC w/ 3xNVMe?

Unless you tune your install to redirect typical I/O to the durable drives (which is going to be a pain, having to find and reconfigure all those services), typical logging to disk and various temp files are going to wear it out pretty quickly.

Obviousy :)

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in Maximum number of docker networks

Only if there was IPv6: docs.docker.com/config/daemon/ipv6/

Just run all your containers with IPv6 randomly generated prefixes and this won’t ever be a problem, you’ll also get more IP spacing than you’ll ever require. Then use your reverse proxy to convert between the “public” IPv4 space and the internal docker IPv6 networks.

Another option is to reduce the size of your IPv4 pools like this guy described.

TCB13 , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to selfhosted in N100 Mini PC w/ 3xNVMe?

• HP EliteDesk 800 G6 Mini
• HP EliteDesk 800 G4 Mini
• HP Elite Mini 600 G9 Mini

All of those HP minis have 2 NVMe slots. If you’re looking for more bays maybe a QNAP TBS-h574TX (Core i3-1320PE) will bit your needs better. Or the Asustor Flashstor 6 FS6706T.

But I want 1 boot drive and 2 x storage drives in RAID

One other possible approach to this is to go with the 800 G4 or the 800 G6 as they also SATA port you can use for your boot drive.

You can also boot from a fast USB 3 flash drive, since it’s your boot drive it won’t be as bad as you think. Consider some servers boot from SD Cards and other low performance media with almost static images.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in What Router can you recommend?

Think about it… with OpenWrt you can spend even more time tweaking around and doing things that may be more automation under OPNsense. :P But yes, fair point.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to linux in As a linux user, do you know about/use openwrt?

Yes, sure:

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