Here are a few of my favorites, some of which are exposed, some are not:

• Mealie - Recipe management. Import recipes by URL is my favorite feature, then I tweak and try it out (I have to be gluten free, so this makes it easy to track what worked for us).
• Homepage - a homepage to put quick links to all of my stuff, neat and clean.
• Grafana - for visualization of current data of my systems, paired with Prometheus.
• Technitium DNS - for all of my DNS needs.
• Jellyfin - for all my media, let’s me pick out what my kids can see/watch without me having to look over their shoulder, along with being a great looking solution for me.
• Immich - photo and video management

All of these (and more, this is just a dsmple of favorites) run on Proxmox. I mostly use LXC over docker, personal preference.

Home Assistant is probably the single most useful for me, already mentioned, just about everything at home is automated/controlled through there.

Same with Barr and Schneider.

Apache guacamole plus your own libreoffice install maybe?

Oof, that sucks.

Yeah big brands can screw up too, I had several spools of coax fail once, and it turned out the whole batch had a problem. I’m just glad no one pulled first, tested later.

If we are taking a gentle loop, sure. But if you mean (and I’ve seen this BTW) tying like a pair of shoes and pulling it tight, I’d kick you out of my IDF.

Not saying thats what you were thinking, just had to share my memory of that pain.

I still prefer a bit of waxed thread though. Great for any cable, be it utp, f/utp, armored, fiber, coax, whatever. But that’s also how I started, so it probably plays a role in why I like it.

Edit: plus a string makes a nice and neat way to hang it on a hook.

I think that has to do more with the heads being used and the quality of the cable than anything. I’ve seen tons of cheap heads on good cable, and it goes poorly after a while.

I generally recommend cable thats been third party tested for both performance and physical resilience. Haven’t seen any decent riser that wasn’t, but I have seen some patch from major brands that definitely wasn’t.

Please dont bend and pinch your cables. Make a loop as shown in the bottom middle.

Add a piece of string to tie it.

And no zip ties. Zip ties are for attaching cables to other things, and should never be tightened fully.

Yes you can. You select what it is at import.

I’d also suggest not setting up your torrent client (or not enabling it) u til you’ve finished your import, and setting what you are monitoring and what you are not.

This way you can just import, and enable/disable monitoring of items easily before you start any new downloads.

FYI, now that tteck has passed, the new home is:

https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/

Tiny/mini/micro.

You can grab a used box for under $200. Most I’ve picked up have been around $100-$125, then I drop in a new m.2 for the host, maybe add/change ram depending on what I got it with.

Data lives on the NAS (really multiple for me, but besides the point here), and you’ll get waaaayyyyy more compute with a usff PC like that than you will with a pi or what a NAS can offer. They also run really light on power when you aren’t putting the CPU to work, so budget friendly in a bunch of ways.

I’ve got a goal after a move my wife and I are planning to run the whole shebang on solar, with battery and a switch to utility power. I’ve got 10 of these little monsters now, after a recent addition, and its quite doable from my measurements of actual power usage.

Which is a really long way of saying you may want to look at some tiny/mini/micro PCs.

I don’t do drm’d content, its all coming from JF so ive got random assortments in various parts of my home. An apple TV, a roku, a regular chromecast, a Chromecast with google TV dongle, and a lenovo m90q with a launcher running arch/KDE.

With the other comments since, yeah not a bot. Early on with the long gap, then a post and the same commen t being the only comment - yeah that looks like a bot.

Its not an indictment of them, just observation.

I don’t think a copy/paste answer comes across as appreciation, no.

It comes across weird, especially on a low activity account, and seems like a bot response that got stuck.

No posts/c9mments in like a year and a half, then this… I’d guess yes.

I have kids, and while yeah I don’t want them repeating some words until they understand them as well as the appropriate social context…

Not what I’m worried about when it comes to TV/streaming.

Personally I avoid external enclosures for data - they can be finicky in many scenarios.

Are you looking to only have one machine, or is it an option to keep the one you have as well? You could put the more intensive stuff on the new machine, and keep the existing as the data store (and maybe lightweight service stuff, like DNS or homepage or whatever).

Adult musical comedy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazbin_Hotel

Thats his name in Hazbin Hotel, yes.

I dont remember how long ago (maybe a few weeks?) And the tag is just a manual tag, so no link to that one. You’d have to check their post history, sorry.

For reference, this is my tag:

.world is not the problem, this particular user is.

They literally said “I hate the disabled”. I know that because I tagged them when I saw that. No it wasn’t out of context.

Other instances they may have just been full on banned for their behavior.