You might want to set up dynamic DNS for your domain. If you’re hosting from a residential internet connection then your ISP will change your address eventually. Ddclient can be used to report your current IP to your Registrar regularly, so if it changes the domain moves along with it.

Just another idea going off the cat thing - Scritches.

Build is solid, but here’s some suggestions.

1. Another 8TB HDD. the reason being you can merge the 4 drives of the same size into a RAID5 array for data redundancy.
2. An SSD to install the OS on.
3. (Optional) More RAM check the mobo to see the max size and speed it can handle, and then fill every slot with that.

I tried Joplin for a while but dropped it, too simple. Also tried Trilum, which I liked more but it’s still a very young project.

Eventually, my Obsidian vault will go there, but not just yet.

*Employees" are outsourced vendors that can’t afford to say no to executives, most likely

Rather than give you specific recommendations, here’s some guidance for parts

Mobo: The more slots you have for RAM and storage, the better.

CPU: literally anything. More cores and faster cores are ideal, but CPU requirements for these things are generally lower than a desktop.

RAM: Buy 1 stick of the fastest and highest capacity RAM your motherboard can handle. When you’re ready or you start to see slowdown, buy another of the same stick. You can get far on 16-32GB, you won’t need much more until later.

Storage: an SSD for the OS and one or more HDDs for storage.

PSU: generally anything in the 500-700 range will be good. You’ll want more if you plan to put a GPU in, though.

It got a big boost when Mozilla updated their ToS a couple months ago to say they could use your browser data to train their AI.

Well, it’s not that they said they would, it’s that they updated their terms so that they could if they wanted to. For some (myself included) that was enough.

I’ve been using 10 LTSC for a few months now, it works great with the few Windows-only apps I still use. I mainly use it to organize my media library, but it’s not had any problems with the few games I’ve installed with Kernel-level anti-cheat (Destiny 2, Delta Force)

I had to download the Xbox Accessories app to control my Elite controller, but that’s really it.

The slippery slope that projects taking this approach fall into boils down to ‘let’s put all our new features behind a business version and never add them to the community version until they become 2 totally different code bases’

Keep the pressure on him. I wanna buy The Boring Company for $6 and a Hot Topic gift card

This whole circumstance just reminds me of COBOL. Nowadays you have scant few programmers for it, but the ones who do demand a big salary because it’s such old specialized technology and often they have decades of experience in it. There’s simply less COBOL programmers than there were in the languages heyday, and the ones trying to enter that market nowadays have a huge learning curve ahead of them.

The only reason most of these places that do that though, is because they wrote in COBOL to begin with decades ago, and didn’t want to switch away to something more modern as other languages gained functionality and popularity.

I doubt C is ever going to go the way that COBOL has, it’s too ubiquitous, but it does make one consider the language you write in and how compatible it may be not just with what exists today but what’s going to exist years from the creation of that code.

Read 1984, if you haven’t already.

This is exactly what The Party does through simplifying the Newspeak dictionary - targeting words to remove from the lexicon to make even communicating against The Party’s narrative impossible.

DEI is being Unpersoned

They’ll make whatever sells subscriptions at this point.

Don’t buy, only subscribe. From media to software and now to hardware and OS. No more license keys you can reuse, no more owning what you pay for, just live services and ever-rising subscription costs that can change at any time for any reason and neuters your ability to take legal action against them while they do it.

Silence critics, control available options, capture profit - that’s the name of the game. They’ll sell this to businesses as ‘take your PC anywhere’ like you couldn’t already do that and then they have a hunk of plastic and silicon they need to pay out the nose for until they finally give it up. And they’ll have to give it up because it literally can’t run anything else on the available hardware. I’m sure folks will hack it apart but like, what’s the point?

Speaking of where we’re talking on just now, Lemmy support in general would be great too. Not sure but I assume your suggestion would mean the same thing?

So CosmOS does run through Compose files, but it makes them on the fly and gives you a moment before runtime to review it and make any changes.

Am I understanding right that your idea here is to put the Volumes on the NFS share and run through that, as opposed to having the data outside of a Volume just sitting on an NFS Mount?

I’m still early enough in that if something’s wrong or not ideal about the config, I can go scorched earth and have the whole thing back up and running in an hour or two.

Is there a better filesystem that I could share out for this kind of thing? My RAID Array is run through OpenMediaVault if that helps.

That tracks with my experience as well. I’ve been trying to get a system set up where the OS and Docker live on a small disk by themselves, and then go out to the larger RAID Array to load its data. But it’s sounding like that’s not really going to work the way I want to (probably why it’s crashed on me so many times, too).

So I have a 2TB nVME for VM Host Disks, and a 72TB RAID Array on my server. My hope is to have the OS and Docker on the 32GB drive I set up for the VM (which lives on the nVME), and then all the files related to the webapps live in a folder on RAID Array in a section meant just for that.

But the other responses in this thread make me think that’s not really going to be an option. Maybe I could make a very large VM Host Disk and put it on the RAID Array, let Docker just forget about the mount points entirely…

Strongly recommend setting up a NAS device to store your media - it’ll stop you from having to migrate data and reconfigure Plex when your storage fills up. You can upgrade the storage whenever you need and mount it via NFS/SMB in Proxmox under Datacenter > Storage

You can even run the NAS in Proxmox if you feel froggy. Just make sure to connect all the drives directly to your VM instead of the Proxmox Host, and make sure it’s started BEFORE you try to run any other VMs because those shares won’t be available without that VM being on.

You might want the NAS on other hardware to avoid that, but that’s your decision.

CEOs. Name them. Shame them.