#nobridge

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • The simple solution is to use another cloud, such as proton drive mentioned below.

    Another more technical solution is to setup a vpn at home and use vpn + smb to share files with your phones, this one fails if your computer isn’t always online at home or if your internet provider runs CGNAT.

    Your computer could be replaced with a selfhosted solution as nextcloud running on separate hardware, but now we’re firmly in selfhosting land.

    The VPN home could be replaced with a VPS that both your home network and mobile devices connect to as a CGNAT workaround.

    The KISS (Keep it simple, stupid) principle says that getting another cloud storage is the way to go. If you truly wanna own your cloud then a trip to selfhost land it is.





  • If you go for SSD another thing to think about is the TBW on them. Buying a low endurance SSD might save some electricity but will cost more in SSDs over time. Example:
    Crucial P3 Plus M.2 NVMe SSD 2TB (2.67W on your link) has 440TBW compared to Kingston Fury Renegade M.2 NVMe SSD Gen 4 2TB (4.92W on your link) with 2000TBW.
    Those few watts you save on using the Crucial P3 Plus will be less than the extra cost in buying new SSDs earlier.
    The site I checked TBW on has the Kingston Fury at $9.4 more than the Crucial P3 Plus.

    I think proper datacenter 3.5’’ HDDs will give you the most efficient Wattage per TB disk space
    Seagate Exos X20 Harddisk ST20000NM007D 20TB SATA-600 7200rpm is supposed to have
    Power Consumption 5.4 Watt (idle) | 9.4 Watt (random read) | 6.4 Watt (random write)







  • Cockpit
    I do know about and use Cockpit with said virtual machine manager but I mostly use it as a shutdown/boot/restart app in my phone and a convenient service monitor and log viewer when troubleshooting.

    Wireguard/OpenVPN
    I really should try out Wireguard sometime but currently OpenVPN is fast enough for my bandwidth and I was already proficient with setting it up before Wireguard.
    The WebUI definitely looks useful.