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I have never build a machine like that, so I guess I can’t help you much, but like another comment said, it seems like a pain to maintain, I usually have trouble with sata cables losing contact, with that setup there are many cables keen to lose contact.

As for ram I wouldn’t worry about it at all, unless you use zfs 4GB should be more than enough, even 2 or less. Ram is expensive now, so you may want to consider using as little as possible unless you already have it laying around. Does truenas use zfs? If so you may want to use other fs like btrfs or test how well zfs works with the ram you have. I’m not sure zfs is worth the trouble. I wouldn’t buy extra ram.

As for CPU I don’t think it matters much, but like I said, I have never tried your setup. But even an ancient sandy bridge should work fine if it’s just a personal has, with HDDs even with encryption. Works fine on my nas.

Also, if you have access to free old computers you can try a ghetto setup where each each computer only handles 4 drives and then you join them together on a master computer either via nbd or nvme other Ethernet (works on sata too). But that seems like an even bigger pain to maintain and increases your power consumption by a lot.

If that happens my phone becomes useless for me, I have to either sell it or throw it away.

Peertube, but lacks content.

It seems that every few weeks some developer makes this same mistake and a news is published each time.

But why would anyone want to buy a chromebook? When they can buy a real computer for the same price?

If battery life is such an issue, just buy a powerbank.

The low price

Dude, there isn’t anything low about that price. That’s the point, with 600 dollars you can get a very decent computer from pretty much any other brand with at least the double of ram.

You see, you can get an used thinkpad for less than half the price and still have twice the ram.

It’s just a scam product for people who know nothing about computers and will pay for this trash because they simply think “apple a good brand, right?”.

That’s the thing, even used Pixels are almost twice the price of what I paid for my new phone.

Back when I bought my phone I considered that route. but then since I can’t replace the batteries on new phones without risking destroying the device. And there’s a big probability that the phone comes with an almost dying battery.

I also understand that GrapheneOS can’t be installed on any “unlocked” phone, it needs to be OEM unlocked and most sellers don’t know/specify, so ended up considering too expensive and too much of a risk.

That’s nice, but how much will those phones cost? Will GrapheneOS be an option on the low end devices or will they only support “some” devices, which happen cost as much as a Pixel anyway?

Well, first while raid is great, it’s not a replacement for backups. Raid is mostly useful if uptime is imperative, but does not protect against user errors, software errors, fs corruption, ransomware or a power surge killing the entire array.

Since uptime isn’t an issue on my home nas, instead of parity I simply have cold backups which (supposedly) I plug in from time to time to scrub the filesystems.

If a online drive dies I can simply restore it from backup and accept the downtime. For my anime I have simply one single backup, but or my most important files I have 2 backups just in case one fails. (Unfornately both onsite)

On the other hand, for a client of mine’s server where uptime is imperative, in addiction to raid I have 2 automatic daily backups (which ideally one should be offsite but isn’t, at least they are in different floors of the same building).

Pgp is protocol agnostic, you can use it over email, xmpp, irc… Over pretty much anything that supports plugins.

It’s usually used for email tho.

Paywalled

Nice!!! But I feel those entry distros could do a lot more to be more user friendly, there are many edge cases where you still need to use a terminal and have some understanding of the OS. We need a truly GUI only distro with more wizards, and automatic repair so more people flee to Gnu/Linux

Unfortunately there’s no good term for that, I guess.

Market manipulation?

I meant that it would die as an “open” platform, so power users would be compelled to stop using android.

I understand, but there’s a good argument that android is the reason why GNU/Linux phones don’t get good.

The death of android as an “open” platform would put some pressure to actual develop an alternative.

Not sure how I should feel about this, if I should support the cause to keep android “open” (when it’s everything but), or if I should be happy that this piece of shit OS finally shows it’s true colours and people (including me) will finally be forced to find an alternative or stop using this trashware all together.

And hopefully developers finally get serious about GNU/Linux phones.

Not sure why you’re getting down votes, AI is a good tool when used properly.

Let’s just pray my anime harddrive doesn’t fail meanwhile…

Not sure if it works like that.

Just from using their platform you’re giving them value, at least in the form of data.

The point is that 8TB are too small, and not enough for my anime.