FippleStone

Thank you for the quality assurance, you may have saved my install.

You could get something like a 5-bay HDD enclosure that connects to the mini pc via usb, but while that’s very clean it also might be slow and/or expensive. Alternatively you could get an NVMe to 5-port sata adapter and cobble together some kind of Frankenstein pc, which is probably cheaper and maybe faster, but is certainly a hack-ier solution and who knows what the reliability is like with them. I’m sure it’ll be a fun project regardless of what you go with.

Links for reference: https://yottamaster.com/en-au/products/yottamaster-5-bay-hard-drive-enclosure-aluminum-alloy-2-5-3-5-usb3-0-to-sata3-0-external-hdd-ssd-storage-enclosure-support-5-x-18-tb-capacity-ideal-for-enterprise-class-storage-solutionfs5u3 https://www.amazon.com.au/ChenYang-Express-Adapter-Converter-Extension/dp/B09MSZCRBV?

Good lord, how much does electricity cost where you are? Combined with the air conditioning to keep the space livable, that would be prohibitively expensive for me

Glances could be a good option, it’s pretty bare bones, but it covers the basics and serves my needs well enough

https://github.com/nicolargo/glances

They’re fuckin’ nihilists dude, they don’t believe in anything

You are clearly not aware of the windfall profits corporations are making, and that they are then passing exactly none of it on to the workers generating that profit

The Linux way, as it was written.

Have you considered some kind of remote mouse app? There’s multiple good options out there, wifimouse.github.io/ for example

Is anyone else getting crazy moire patterns if they zoom in on the background?

Whenever I get worried about new technology I think of the Luddites, then I am less worried

Noice

I would definitely recommend consumer grade hardware for a small home server, I ran older server gear (dual e5645+42GB ram) and found it to be loud and power hungry, especially at idle. Moved over to only slightly newer consumer stuff (i5-3470+8GB ram) and it still did what I needed it to, without costing $40AUD a month to run.

8GB of RAM is perhaps a bit limiting at times but I’ve not yet run into any critical issues because of it. I wouldn’t want to try simultaneous, high bit-rate transcodes on it but aside from that it’s been fine for my use case.

Damn good bot

Oh for sure, the US is totally cooked when judged by most important metrics

I haven’t heard the term whalecum in a long time…

Disgustingly good, I love it

But just to note, this doesn’t work if your ISP places you in a double NAT situation by using carrier grade NAT

The N4120 is a surprisingly competent piece of hardware, very sweet little processor