1. We don’t know the price yet
2. Not everyone knows how to build a PC
3. Not everyone wants to learn to build a PC
4. Not everyone knows how to install a new OS
5. Not everyone wants to learn to install a new OS

(Talking about OS because I’m assuming they want a console experience, not a windows desktop experience)

If you look at the arguments on math forums, you’ll see that there isn’t just one rule.

It is a convention, and different places teach different conventions.
Namely, some places say that PEDMAS is a very strict order. Other places say that it is PE D|M A|S, where D and M are the same level and order is left-to-right, and same with addition vs subtraction.
And others, even in this post, say it’s PEMDAS, which I have heard before.

“Correct” and “incorrect” don’t apply to conventions, it’s simply a matter of if the people talking agree on the convention to use. And there are clearly at least three that highly educated people use and can’t agree on.

My understanding is that it’s just trueNAS scale under the hood, and that migrating between the two is fairly painless.

Yeah fair.

It’s also kinda a fuzzy area, because some of their code is open source, but not all.
And iirc they’re partly funded by the folks who make trueNAS, but supporting a project supported by open-source folks isn’t the same as supporting open-source folks themselves.

I figured it toss it out there anyways though.

Not practical advice, but since you’re throwing out alternatives, one that I’ve had my eye on is hexOS.
It’s a trueNAS scale (fork?) by a bunch of ex-unraid devs with the goal of making trueNAS as easy as unraid.

It still has a few more months of beta, though, so I haven’t tried it. Also, like unraid, it has a paywall.

That’s good, if at least one surviving synced device survives then you still have access. Still a big “if” in a catastrophe, but a much better proposition.

What is the data retention policy for the local vaults?

Thanks for your useful and actionable feedback that clearly explains the problem. So trustworthy /s

No, my problem is that I need my password manager to access my backup, and I need my backup to get my password manager.

Do you count “gave an old person COVID and they died”? Then absolutely for sure.

I don’t trust my setup for something like this.

My server and NAS go down in a fire, and I’m not gonna have the key I need to get the backup so I can restore my password manager lol

I’m gonna pick up a few of these I think.

That NoteDicovery looks pretty slick. Its exactly what I was looking for a few months ago, and I’d absolutely pick it up if I didn’t just fall in love with the silverbullet’s ability to execute code embedded directly in the markdown; a feature that I expect to use almost never, but atotally smitten with.

As a side note, all these email archiving projects almost do something I want, maybe folks here can help me:
I’ve heard that self-hosting email is not worth the pain, but I also don’t want to leave my email history in the hands of these megacorps I don’t trust. These archive projects solve that problem, but they’re not email clients. I don’t want to archive and delete an email just to find out actually I need to reply to it like a month later.
What do you recommend for this usecase?

You’re not wrong.

I would also add to that list “things I didn’t know I wanted”, but that is hard to objectively differentiate from manipulation.

If the ads actually targeted me with things I’d actually like, instead of trying to manipulate me, I’d probably care less. But they don’t, because shareholders want larger margins.

You’d rather be using arch 😜

Eclipse che was, afaict, the first to really make major progress in this space.

Vscode and codespaces basically stole the whole thing… But then they actually provided it in a way that was easy to use.

So while I don’t like the theft, I think that the result is great, and I don’t like that OP lists it as something nobody wants.

Why are you including codespaces in there??? That’s a feature I wish more open-source projects made use of. Pristine working dev environments, on demand? Yes please

Based on what does it grate?
Are there any other native English dialects that grate, or just this one?

What if I told you that the provenance of “aks” is at least as solid as “ask”?

I feel like people forget that words can have multiple definitions. You can have a technical definition and a popular definition

But if he misses his deadline, his boss (Jesus) would fire him, and shut down the whole department.