Add Stract.com it is a little behind in web crawling of current info, but the results are like how google used to be around 2010. Just relevant content info, no ads (yet) and occasional randomness

I got lucky and picked one up for $200

I got lucky and picked one up for $200

Fanleas cases, no fan, no noise. https://www.monsterlabo.com/

Silent and fanless: look for a Monsterlabo case. It is all heatsink. Buy a fankess power supply, or buy a PSU that is overrates for the load and fanless under 30% load.

Its the setup I have. I can render video and other work loads and you don’t even know the system is on

Of course, security first

Microsoft’s installed ssh has a phone home behaviour, it logs the server IP you connected to back to the MS mothership during your login.

This is for colour printers for sure, to prevent counterfitting. Many black and white only didn’t have fingerprinting, previously anyway. The printers serial number and manufacturer is coded. They don’t need to change anything, its done by the printer (serial, Mac, model)

This is not why printers are terrible. Printers are terrible because they don’t follow a standard protocol.

It says Myrlyn to replace YaST GUI

Looks a lot like YaST

https://news.opensuse.org/2025/02/10/myrlyn-now-handles-community-repos/

But yeah, I liked all the easy config stuff in the Yast Modules

I found M ITX on eBay for cheap $50, the ad said used mobo (10 available), but it arrived absolutely factor clean and had CPU cover on, etc. I assume old stock rather than used?? And found a CPU for $40. Monsterlabo fanless case cost me the most at $200

If you browse the webs so many people with “Help my drive is full of snapshots, what do I do?”. If there is a failure mode people will find it. Whereas a curated distro is OOTB ready to go without user intervention.

You can assign auto snapshots or create on demand, but whether or not you have a maintenance tool that does scrub, cleaning whatever is another story. I guess my point was something that has Btrfs as default install will also have some curation around the tools that optimize that system

Fedora, like OpenSUSE that has btrfs by default, should be running scheduled scripts to do scrub, maintenance and dump old snapshots (either by number of snapshots or by age) on its own. Others having issue with btrfs are probably manually setting it up and not knowing the options or don’t have scripts that run on the back end. Having said that I do notice the partitions suggested for root are highly conservative, I usually add 30% on top of suggested root size and haven’t had issues in 7+ years

As for the other question in thr post: If you are using btrfs or zfs I believe both of those have a send function that operates at a block level and will only send block changes rather than full file changes

Configure and Pre backup the drives before bringing them to family members to save yourself some bandwidth

Can’t make a claim for Fedora, but I know on OpenSUSE the maintenance,Scrub etc is already built In as cron/scripts. There’s no need to run additional scripts.

Support is loose term on Windows. KDE and GS connect work excellent on Linux, KDE connect on Windows seems highly broken

If you have reverse proxy are you checking that set of logs or just the HA logs?

I meant deb based as in those based on Debian OS…which feeds the other Debian based offshoots. I probably over simplified by original comment, I wasn’t claiming deb package management was the issue, just the relation to Debian base OS being the issue. So whatever the base OS of fedora and SUSE is worked fine (those happen to be RPM packages) maybe Arch may have worked or failed also. The point of it all was , if one fails to install, try another distro, and I my case nothing based off of Debian could deal with the hardware issue