How high is the power bill? I considered getting some more smaller drives but I figured it is more power efficient in the long term to buy bigger HDDs, not to mention that I only have 4 disk slots

I wish I could afford an SSD Nas since my main server is located in my bedroom. For now I have to be content with shutting anything down over night that triggers HDD activity.

I used to have a 4TB Ironwolf HDD but also ran out of space on that. As I already use a 2x16TB NAS server as a backup destination I looked to get another 16TB drive that I might repurpose at some point in the future.

I had to settle for a WD Elements HDD at about 310 Euro. My Ironwolf was really quiet. Might be because it is a 5400 RPM drive. The element almost drives me mad because the drive head clicks very loudly.

Same reason I don’t use my actual synology NAS with Toshiba MG08 drives as more than a backup server but at least those are actual server HDDs and so usually aren’t expected to be quiet.

I also just wanted to rant a bit. Don’t mind me

Thanks. I’ll keep this in mind in case my new stack causes issues again

Hey, just wanted to let you know that my updated stack has been running perfectly since I changed it based on your setup. Thanks

I guess I missed that.

Anyway, I updated my stack to be similar to what you pasted and so far it seems to be working. I’ll have to check tomorrow if the reboot issue persists.

I know that the port forwarding command can be simplified. In my case its this complex because the way it is listed in the gluetun wiki did not work even though I disabled authentication for my local network. The largest part of the script is authenticating with the username and password before actually sending the port forwarding command.

I’ll definitely try adjusting my stack to your variant though. I’ve also tried the healthcheck option before but I must have configured it wrong because that caused my gluetun container to get stuck.

One question regarding your stack though, is there a specific reason for binding /dev/net/tun to gluetun?

As far as I am aware, Mullvad has removed port forwarding support a while ago. While I am not sure which VPN providers except proton still support it, I kind of remember seeing a small list of them some time ago which listed Proton among one of the few trustworthy ones left.

Maybe they added new ones since I last looked

Extra hard drive space is good and all but the last time I looked at their lists, all decently sized torrents had a good enough amount of peers while the large torrents which aren’t as manageable were the issue.

I sometimes prefer light mode, for example on my laptop in bright environments because I find that it gives me better contrast and keeps more of the screen viewable

I had a single desk in my bedroom set aside for projects. Above that desk I had a pegboard for some frequently used tools and a small shelf next to the desk where I out anything that has its own case.

Not that great but it worked for me.

Sounds nice but the main issue I personally see with that bag philosophy is needing the same tool for 2 different tasks. I’m sure as heck not buying a second pair of 50 euro knipex because I have the other pair set aside for some other task.

Currently I can barely get most of tools that don’t have a box of their own into a big metal toolbox. If I was going to live where I am currently for more than the next year I might think about setting up a pegboard for my tools again. Maybe make a nice wall of pliers

I can’t think of a great historical photo right now but I’m loving this thread

Mainly kernel level anticheat, though that is obviously not really linux fault.

My other personal gripe is probably stumbling across a GTK based app that works for what I want it to do but clashes extremely badly with my Plasma DE.

For example, I wanted to set up automatic file backups to an SFTP server using borg. The two common UI interfaces I found are vorta and pika-backup. Vorta only supports SSH and local backup repositories while pika allows SFTP through some kind of compatibility layer with gvfs.

Seems like pika is the right choice for me but the UI felt incredibly dumbed down and really did not match with anything else on my PC. Since both programs were kind of out, I found another backup tool in Kopia.

The reason I was looking for a backup tool at all? I was previously using synology active backup for business, which is available on all linux distros except arch.

The one thing I can’t get set up on Kate is leaving temporary text files open between sessions.

Probably a bad habit of mine but I sometimes end up pasting some info into a notepad++ file without saving it and then come back much later to check it out again

Heh, I guess I was one of those downloads. I wanted to set up an old PC I had lying around for gaming over the holidays at my parents place.

In the end I forgot that I maybe would need an internet connection and didn’t have a long enough ethernet cable to actually use it but I did install the distro at least. No idea how well it works though since the PC has a GTX 1050 ti and officially the image only supports RTX cards and the GTX 16xx series.

I’m afraid that philosophy doesn’t quite work when you are part of a friend group that’s playing together and you are the only one who even considers using Linux. I actually do play a lot of games on my dual boot Linux install but since we are currently playing a lot of battlefield I usually start Windows instead

Unfortunately I tend to like games that are still among the damn 10%, like battlefield 6.

Meanwhile I just tried to set up a VPN connection for my laptop and can’t get wireguard to work properly

Honestly I found plex a lot simpler to set up when I started out.

In Jellyfin I had to wrangle the settings a lot when trying to set up hardware encoding since my streams kept crashing due to some codecs not being dupported by my CPU.