And regional communities. There’s not nearly enough people in the fediverse to support city or state communities. And only the most populous countries.

Why go full ATX? Get something like a Jonsbo N2 case and an ITX board. Still small and portable, but far more reliable.

Most of the power draw of any NAS system is running the drive motors.

Oh, if you want to run truenas, then replace the controller with a 9211-8i or similar, and put it in IT mode so that truenas can see the raw disks.

You can tell truenas to use it as one big pool, and it’ll work fine, but you’ll lose the native disk health monitoring (I assume truenas has some, I’ve never used it).

You’ve already got it, why not use it? There’s nothing wrong with it. Hardware raid is fine, and sas drives are usually cheaper, actually, because not as many people want them.

It’s blogspam. You can click through to the original article. It only happens in certain environments.

Wait, is this about the posts from melonhusk@sh.itjust.works? We don’t need a new rule for that, they were spamming.

I agree. I think ansible is great in principle, but the documentation is severely lacking. Like it’ll tell you to set a value, but not whether it’s supposed to be in yaml, environment, or something else. And if it’s in yaml, it doesn’t tell you the required context to make it valid. But when someone has taken all the documentation, all the tutorials, the articles, the example code, working code, and stack overflow answers and put them all into a blender, often a useful answer comes out.

Agreed. If anything, I’ve seen relevant posts be removed as “not related to self-hosting” when they’re questions about stuff like certificates.

Written by Copilot and passes the tests also written by Copilot.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/france-will-investigate-musks-grok-after-ai-chatbot-posted-holocaust-denial-claims

Or https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/14/elon-musk-grok-white-genocide if you want something that was intentionally programmed.

I used photoprism briefly, and it seemed okay, but my use-case was porn so I switched to stash.

If you want a Google photos clone, most people use immich.

*set up us

That’s not a NAS, that’s a whole-ass PC, though with only 8gb RAM. And way overpriced for the spec.

“Safe” meaning somewhere it won’t be destroyed by fire, flood, hurricane, etc. that destroys the primary copy.

You could probably renew your subscription for a month and get access. They’re very slow to actually disable or delete anything, for this reason.

This is why we verify this kind of job.

Well yes, you take the stairs to the next level.

I just aim for “good enough”. Does it work, does it meet my needs? That’s good enough, even if it isn’t exactly the right way.

Like right now I have a system that needs manual intervention if I shut it down, or it’ll come back up non-functional. But it works well enough so I’ll just fix that eventually. I like to spend my free time doing more social or productive stuff.

I think a self-hosted platform as a service is just called a platform

If you want the next level up, set up a log collector like graylog or something.

Some do, but that means you’re locked in to whoever the landlord chooses for the ISP, and you can’t call the ISP for support if you have issues.