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TCB13 , 5 months ago to piracy in How long should I expect a NAS to last?

No always, and that’s the reason why I would never buy their hardware. There are some older models that can be hacked to install a generic Linux but the majority can’t. It’s just easier to get something truly open.

TCB13 , 5 months ago to selfhosted in Super Power-Efficient ITX Nas CPU/Motherboard?

Oh. This kind of issues is why I now run everything on Debian. If you’re paying a license you should ask for support and bash them until they fix whatever is wrong with their kernel power management.

Even if you get a new machine you’ve zero guarantees there wont be any other power management or networking issues with Unraid.

TCB13 , 5 months ago to selfhosted in Super Power-Efficient ITX Nas CPU/Motherboard?

I specifically had to set things up in the BIOS so that it would never enter any efficient power/sleep states

This is most likely why you’re running at 100W all the time. No need to further measure anything. Reset your BIOS to defaults, update the OS / use Debian and you should be good.

TCB13 , 5 months ago to selfhosted in Super Power-Efficient ITX Nas CPU/Motherboard?

This seems very suspicious, get a cheap watt metter and test it with that. If it still says 100W I would say there’s something wrong in your CPU, motherboard or software. Not necessarily the CPU, can be the motherboard or simply your Linux is set to run the CPU at full clock all the time.

Btw, I have a Ryzen 5 2600 and that thing goes down to 20W or so.

TCB13 , 5 months ago to piracy in How long should I expect a NAS to last?

What about building your own NAS? If you’ve the time / skills you can pick a very small micro ITX motherboard and a NAS case and build your own. This way you can run open-source software and it will have more features / expandability and potentially last way longer.

TCB13 , 5 months ago to selfhosted in Receive only email server

You’re welcome.

TCB13 , 5 months ago to selfhosted in Receive only email server

Is there any other beginner-friendly email service I should read about?

workaround.org

If you don’t want to setup everything as you should there’s also mailinabox.email and docs.mailcow.email

TCB13 , 5 months ago to linux in tell me your experience using zfs/btrfs

Btrfs will normally won’t get corrupted unless you have a hardware issue. It uses cow so writes can never be half competed. If you do manage to get corruption you can use btrfs check.

From my experience BTRFS is way more reliable against hardware failure then Ext4 ever was. Ext* filesystems tend to go corrupt on the first and smallest power loss or hardware failure.

TCB13 , 5 months ago to selfhosted in The "safest" way of self hosting

With Wireguard or OpenVPN you may ask: “How do I do that without opening a port? You just said that was a bad idea!”

There’s a BIG difference here. Don’t be afraid to expose the Wireguard port because if someone tried to connect and they don’t authenticate with the right key the server will silently drop the packets.

We require authentication in the first handshake message sent because it does not require allocating any state on the server for potentially unauthentic messages. In fact, the server does not even respond at all to an unauthorized client; it is silent and invisible. The handshake avoids a denial of service vulnerability created by allowing any state to be created in response to packets that have not yet been authenticated. www.wireguard.com/protocol/

OpenVPN is very noisy and you’ll know if someone is running it on a specific port while Wireguard you’ll have no way to tell it’s running.

TCB13 , 5 months ago to science in I wasn't worried about climate change. Now I am.

and we’d have 10x more if we ate what we feed industrially farmed animals.

You can’t eat that or that alone and what you can and need is way worse for the environment.

TCB13 OP , 5 months ago to selfhosted in Alternative to Home Assistant for ESPHome Devices

Interesting. I’ll have to check what might be logging so much info.

TCB13 OP , 5 months ago to selfhosted in Alternative to Home Assistant for ESPHome Devices

I wasn’t aware that node-red existed until this post :P

TCB13 OP , 5 months ago to selfhosted in Alternative to Home Assistant for ESPHome Devices

Yes, but I would rather do it inside a LXC container.

TCB13 OP , 6 months ago to selfhosted in Alternative to Home Assistant for ESPHome Devices

If you don’t need the addons you don’t need Docker. HA Core is a python script with a few dependencies that can run with pyenv and a simple systemd service unit at every boot.

TCB13 OP , 6 months ago to selfhosted in Alternative to Home Assistant for ESPHome Devices

What I’m going to do is setup HA Core on a container manually and run without addons / docker. That will be about installing python and should waste way less resources.