Saved for trying out later, ty!

Some 2nd gen Intel Acer Aspire (?) SFF with an older gen NVIDIA card. Last Windows machine in the household due to WAF.

Some German cable providers do internal NATting please check that yours does not.

This is too true, I usually do not touch any tech stuff anymore at home, working in IT all day.

TIL, ty. Always used a separate partition /home folder and plain reinstalled. Have to concede never thought of my personal machines as critical stuff is on a redundant Proxmox setup. Will try this out tonight, brain mush after work permitting.

because it works, even in a crowdstrike

edit: typo

This. And battery life is amazing.

Would you share why you only scan at night? I think currently I have autoscan enabled to switch channels every hour, day and night.

Thy already wrote this will not be powered on 24/7, just lean back and enjoy the pics and story :-)

They talked about a distributed file system on their home cluster, without naming ceph.

That person went a little overboard imho. Would be interested if they ever tried a complete recovery on that setup.

Would be around 300€ in Germany, on a cheap contract. Limiting myself to one combined NAS/application server atm, with the others turned on only if I want to try sth out.

Yes. Chuck some 5TB Seagate externals. They’re way less pain in the ears, cooler and quieter.

Ray guns everywhere please. Stepped into that beamer trap once, only for my non-DE colleagues to tease me forever with it.

Yup, with 2,5" Seagates. Reused the enclosure with smaller used enterprise ssds to make cheap USB sticks.

Stolen, bookmarked. Thank you. P.s.: Can’t understand the downvotes either.

Lindnerpartei nicht vergessen…

Fritzboxes are rock stable, and support Wireguard from FritzOS 7.5 onwards, see https://avm.de/service/vpn/wireguard-vpn-zur-fritzbox-am-computer-einrichten/

(Apparently NOT the cable versions!)

What nags me most with them is that you have no separate Firewall controll over their WiFi, and the WiFi range is not really great. So probably consider going with dedicated APs instead.

Probably also check the power settings in the config file: https://kalitut.com/increase-usb-current-limit-raspberry-pi/

To extend on this: Anybody ever did a test recovery to see if the backups are ok and to dry-test their backup/restore strategy? I have to admit that until now I was too cheap to keep a spare drive array just for testing.