It’s pretty good to work with, and it’s got pretty mainstream support because the OS isn’t FreeBSD anymore, and it supports docker. As far as setting up the array you plug in the disks and tell it to make a pool. Pretty easy. Then you can subdivide as needed.

TrueNAS has some built in support for backing up to various clouds via rsync, or you can sync at the pool level to a remote server.

TrueNAS Scale is a good option. ZFS is a very resilient filesystem. I lost a lot of data to a software raid in the past that didn’t checksum the data and now I have an affinity for zfs. I believe they have added the ability to grow with larger drives as well - just disconnect drive an and insert new larger drive b, let it resilver, and once you’ve got them all replaced it grows the volume. Set it up, see how you like it, and move your data over if you do.

You may be different, but given that your current situation is a couple drives sitting on a desk for 4+ years, I wouldn’t worry about expansion so much. I built a nas a while ago and figured I’d upgrade it, and I haven’t. Until it’s full, it’ll keep going.

Also check price/gb before settling on 6TB. That’s small.

Man that almost sounds like Siri. I Can’t help unfortunately. It sounds like it doesn’t realize that the sun sensor data is what you’re looking for, like it doesn’t recognize what the data actually is? If that makes sense. I don’t think the celeron that runs my hass would also run a llm or id give it a shot.

Look at the boxes outside the back of the restaurant.

Any decent restaurant will be cooking a fair bit of their food, even if they’re using Restaurant Supply’s fried chicken mix.

Applebee’s potato skins you probably can’t get directly because it’s probably only available to franchisees. But with some digging you might be able to buy a skid of the generic stuff from the manufacturer.

Once, I got a box of frozen microwaveable dessert. We ate so much… every day… it was a big box.

I clicked the button to make a link but it didn’t work. :)

I just looked back and my first vault item dates back to 2010. Time flies.

I think enshittification is slightly an overstatement. They’re under VC pressure now and moving aggressively towards a subscription model with capabilities increasingly behind the subscription. I bought a few licenses for Mac and PC a while ago; the software still works but no browser extensions - need a subscription for that. Also, take a look at their job postings. Same job pays double in USA vs Canada. Funny way to do things if they’re Canadian.

It was a password safe before password safes were cool. https://www.pwsafe.org/2002.shtml

Personally, 1Password, but their enshittifaction is serious.

Work, Password Safe. But we’re moving to CyberArk.

What sort of isp supplied residential equipment doesn’t block inbound connections? Pedantically, you’re correct.

You have a firewall. It’s in your router, and it is what makes it so that you have to VPN into the server. Otherwise the server would be accessible. NAT is, effectively, a firewall.

Should you add another layer, perhaps an IPS or deny-listing? Maybe it’s a good idea.

Well yes, it is one hop, because you’ve got the router doing TLS termination. Inside your network you point to the server that has the TLS certs. Outside of the network you do port forwarding, or use a tunnel with cloudflare agents.

Why is the router involved at all? It’s all local traffic. The external traffic comes through the cloud flare tunnel, right? Maybe I’m not understanding the architecture you’ve got.

It’s possible but it’s an extra pain in the butt.

Internally, have you tried pointing the DNS directly to the ngnix server, not the router? There’s no reason to have that extra hop (I don’t think).

If you are establishing a TLS connection to a server, the server will need a certificate. It sounds like you’re trying to have two instances of a reverse proxy - one on the server, and one on the router. It may be my ignorance of the particulars, but my immediate thought is that you should select one point in the network to do reverse proxying.

The amplifi line is the plug and play line closest to the google/eero/etc. experience. It is specifically the one I was referring to which has less than enthusiastic feedback.

I neglected to mention Mikrotik. They’re a Latvian company that is also in the space. I think they’d be farther to the professional/complex end of the spectrum. Omada is in the middle, and Ubiquiti leans toward the easier to use side. They’re all going to need more work than google wifi, unfortunately.

The “other” site has a wealth of information; evanmccann.net is a good source for demystifying their product line as well.

Google‘s (and Facebook, and all the social media ad companies’) business model is predicated on the notion they have a better profile of their victims than the other ad network. They’ll never tell your uncle about what you search for at 2am, but they’ll indirectly sell it.

The best thing to do is to run a wired backhaul, if it’s remotely possible. MoCa or power line adapters are possible options but do your research and assess your own situation. Wifi is more complex that it can seem on the surface, and wireless backhaul adds its own nuance.

With higher end products you may find that you don’t need a mesh network - just one AP may solve the problem. All my neighbours have f’ing extenders which take up a ton of airspace and the houses are 30sqm footprint.

Ubiquiti makes the UniFi line which is prosumer. You’ll need several components; unless you’ve got more than 1gbps service, the UDM is a good starting point. They also make the amplifi line; I don’t think there’s a lot of positive feedback on those products.

Tplink is a Chinese company and therefore immediately suspect in some eyes, but their Omada line is pretty reliable. They also make the Deco line for more home-focused solutions. They’ve been in the news a bit lately, more so because people don’t change passwords from what I recall, but I wanted to mention it.

Why the heck are they storing this data for 20 years anyways?

What brand are those power strips? Last time I went shopping for power strips, they were all the rage and I could hardly find one WITHOUT that feature. Today, several years later, I can’t find any. Except, perhaps, some Chinese ones without safety approvals. I need one for my tv.