I’ve heard this for 20 years.

I don’t play on consoles, and even I can see this simply isn’t true

He’s just annoyed because his spam got removed from github

Exactly.

Perfection is the enemy of good.

Distribution of this stuff is a great start, a huge win I’d say. The more it’s diversified, the less central control there is.

So is the backlash against minimalism or against anti-minimalism? 😁

(Just thought it funny that it could be read either way, if you choose to).

I run a 2019 Dell OptiPlex SFF desktop as my ESXi box - it idles under 20w with multiple Linux and Windows VM’s (4 are standard, besides the ad-hoc ones for testing stuff).

Hard to beat the idle combined with performance when needed. Pi really doesn’t compare.

What are you trying to do?

In the business world, this would be your business requirements. Once you have those then you can spec the technical requirements.

Without having a target, you’ll just be all over the place.

Start with one thing, get that setup, get management for it in place, backup processes, etc.

Then do the next thing.

Iceberg made a great rec - start with Jellyfin. It’s pretty easy, but touches on all sorts of stuff like storage, backups (which media is worth backing up?), etc. Plus it has a high reward - watching what you want, when you want, from almost any device.

Their users are enterprise IT.

They only care about consumers enough to keep them famiar with Windows.

Stopped using reddit years ago.

Never once used WhatsApp, and refuse to.

Same with a bunch of other social media sites.

YouTube - only use it to download high quality Vida using other tools, like Grayjay, Newpipe, and YT-DL.

Yea, I was thinking Unreal, but Quake is even closer.

As others have said, unless you’re going to be using those CPUs a lot, you probably don’t need the capability.

I run an old (2019) Dell OptiPlex SFF desktop as my server (I also have an ancient NAS). It runs ESXi just fine, with 2 Linux VM’s and 4 Windows VM’s, with 48GB of RAM.

At idle it consumes just under 20 watts. Peak is 80 watts (limited by the power supply).

Those VM’s all run fine - one is for file services and Jellyfin, one is for dedicated DVD ripping and video conversion.

Even when that VM is converting videos, everything else is responsive. Never get a lag on Jellyfin.

Now imagine how much more performance your server is capable of. Many simultaneous VM’s.

Oh, and it’s a really quiet machine.

I’d sooner have this or multiple mini pc’s than any kind of commercial server hardware. Completely different design approaches - servers are designed for running 24/7 with maximum cooling capability along with max performance. Power and noise aren’t really a consideration.

Pretty sure it never left.

Sounds like you’re talking about a Mesh VPN.

Syncthing doesn’t need a VPN to function - in fact you’re better off not using a VPN as it’s own rules will see the VPN as a LAN connection and sync data across it when your Syncthing rules exclude using your data connection. Maybe that’s what you saw with Netbird’s data usage. I’d be really surprised if Netbird itself used any significant data.

I have about 20 sync jobs per phone - some are allowed to use cell data (photos), others aren’t. When I enable Tailscale on my phone, Syncthing will try to sync all the jobs because it sees the VPN as a LAN.

I run rooted and use a firewall and block VPN there for Syncthing to prevent this.

Yea, it’s a completely different security model, due to coming from Unix (a multi-user system) while Windows started as a single-user system.

Windows is user-centric security, Linux is file/process-centric.

Linux is arguably better, but it also requires more management.

Pretty much any XMPP setup will work.

That’ll get beat down the first time they try to enforce it.

Wish I could upvote 10x

If they don’t know that’s on them for buying the latest cool thing without researching it.

But I also agree this shit should be illegal.

Not mine… 😁

Wtf are grade school kids doing with phones?

Let alone in a classroom.

And I’d say the same for teachers in classrooms.

At work my personal phone is on silent and I only check it at certain times.

Not really.

Resilio has a Selective Sync feature, where it keeps an index at each client, and you select which files to sync in the moment. Works very well, I use it to access (mostly) all my media files (but actually any file on my NAS).

I don’t replace Syncthing with it because it’s very memory intense (keeps the index in ram) and notably harder on battery than Syncthing.

But it works very well - it could replace Syncthing if you wanted.