Probably a hardware upgrade of some kind. The i5-7500 is not cutting it for Minecraft servers with mods and Arma 3 servers, single thread performance is just too slow. So I may grab an i3-14100 or similar and a motherboard and do that swap.

Oh I see, you mean you mount the NAS storage into /home?

Interesting, are you accessing files directly on the NAS or something like that where the symlink makes sense?

I mount extra storage under /mnt/ and store stuff like media in there.

Without the utility how would I connect to a grid to sell to others? Who would pay for that and manage it?

They still use far less, bitcoin manages like 10 transactions per second and consumes a staggering amount of power. A normal database running on something using a few watts could handle 10 database updates per second.

At that point the devices could just report without the use of cryptocurrency and we could use normal money, it would also have less power usage because no mining is happening.

I just can’t really visualize the advantage of cryptocurrency here, it increases power usage, cost, and complexity.

I use Frigate, works well with RTSP cameras such as Amcrest.

If you have a 6th gen or newer Intel CPU you don’t need a Coral, you can use OpenVINO instead and it works just as well.

If you have a 6th gen or newer Intel CPU you don’t need a Coral, you can use OpenVINO instead and it works just as well.

Consumer SSDs generally only have a 200-600TBW rating, not petabytes. Its pretty easy to wear one out in a few years installed in a server.

substantial administrative overhead for keeping a virtualization system running just for home assistant.

I’m not sure what you mean? HA OS in a VM doesn’t have any administrative overhead.

Oh I know it’s just more of a pain, there’s very little overhead from a VM running Linux so it’s well worth doing that IMO.

Larger drives, because less power consumption.

Also less overall failures to deal with, if you have 10 drives vs 2 drives the chance of failure is higher.

Especially with 12TB drives being under $100 now for refurbs.

Doesn’t that require manual setup of the addons if you don’t run HA OS?

The general rule is the 3-2-1 rule, so 3 copies of your data, 2 different storage types, and 1 of them offsite.

Make sure you run backups at least daily too for your data, and keep a month or so worth of incremental snapshots.

Restic + Backblaze B2 is great for an offsite backup.

Yeah it’s great for that kind of thing!

Enterprise servers often have it built in, but for everything else this is priced really well.

Interesting, as I remember it didn’t do integration with a lot of apps, so you end up with some that have auth and some that don’t at all, and some that you have to manage auth internally.

You can use nginx just fine, probably need to skip the automatic deployment though.

That’s not too surprising since it’s Pi based, and that stuff is really expensive. The PCBs in those 2 links also look to use a lot of through hole parts, and are not optimized for low cost mass production.

The JetKVM looks to use a cheaper SBC probably with a custom PCB actually designed to be cheap to produce, so it doesn’t have the Pi premium slapped on it.