Bingo.

I haven’t had Starbucks in 14 years, even then I would get one on occasion only because that was the coffee shop on my work campus.

In your defense, you have a significant active French community.

It’s a bit like during the Norman Conquest when English started absorbing some French - it’s just still ongoing for you!

Not really.

Resilio has a Selective Sync feature, where it keeps an index at each client, and you select which files to sync in the moment. Works very well, I use it to access (mostly) all my media files (but actually any file on my NAS).

I don’t replace Syncthing with it because it’s very memory intense (keeps the index in ram) and notably harder on battery than Syncthing.

But it works very well - it could replace Syncthing if you wanted.

What are your requirements the make Syncthing not acceptable? That will help us offer other solutions.

Two other tools you can use are FolderSync on Android - it just uses standard network protocols (FTP, SFTP, SAMBA, etc), so it’s much harder on battery than Syncthing.

Resilio Sync is similar to Syncthing but works very differently. I use it along with Syncthing.

Check out Resilio.

I’ve used both for 10 years now, rarely have issues with either, and I sync (with Syncthing) hundreds of gigs between about 8 devices, with about 20 different sync jobs, every day.

You do have to configure ST exactly how you want it, and know what that means.

I’ve been able to move the config 3 times now as I’ve migrated systems - you stop the service, copy the config files (ensuring the new system has the same folder structure), then start it there. Not for the faint of heart.

I do think Resilio is a little more robust, but it’s much harder on memory/battery for mobile - so much so I don’t let it just run on my phone and only use it when I want to sync specific files over (using it’s Selective Sync feature).

You both get up votes for your properly referenced sources.

Ventrilo

Holy hell haven’t heard that name in years

It’s garbage.

The laundry list of items is nothing more than the usual “be active, don’t drink, don’t smoke, reduce your stress, etc, etc”, with no data, no quantification, etc.

You’ve argued that assholes are individuals, instead of all of us.

Don’t be disingenuous.

Disagree all you want - ECC has no bearing outside of high-resiliency databases.

I say this having nearly 4 decades in enterprise - ECC only matters then.

OP is definitely not doing anything requiring ECC, recommending it is just wasting money.

Why do you want ECC? (Hint: unless you’re running a business database dealing with financials, you don’t need it). I’ve run Windows server on desktop hardware since the 90’s with no issues, and today’s hardware is far better than what we had then.

The reason people settle on NUCs and SFF desktops is power. They virtually sip watts.

I don’t usually recommend specifics for someone but rather ideas and ways to look at your requirements, but given your requirements (20 TB), it would be worth considering a commercial NAS, or at least a NAS enclosure running a NAS OS like UnRAID or TrueNAS.

Expansion is generally not something I’d think about for a NAS (though it can be done today). I expand my NAS once a year (swap out one drive) but I keep 3 local copies - so if it failed I can restore locally rather than from a cloud backup.

So your data lives on a NAS, and you can then either run your services there (they mostly support containers, etc these days), but I’d get a NUC or SFF to host that stuff. It makes for nice separation and gives you some flexibility.

Back to SFF and NUC - my last desktop hardware idled at 100 watts. It was visible on my power bill and used more power than my lights or just about any other single device other than heat or stove.

My SFF server idles at just under 20 watts and peaks at 80 when I’m converting videos. It currently has 8Tb of storage, but I could easily get 20 in there, it would just be expensive.

Oh, and a good NAS can spin down drives to save power when idle, which for most of us is like 90% of the time (I have an ancient NAS as redundancy that does this - it idles around 5w).

Right?

The things that require ID: starting a job, buying beer, buying cigarettes, using government services, using healthcare services, etc, etc.

I guess 14 states are ripe for stolen elections.

I’d say $50k - make THAT risk really hurt.

There’s no excuse for the crap we have today. Every Enterprise I’ve worked in since the mid-90’s has had strong password policy and controls.

We ALL get to be the asshole at one time or another, which you’ve glossed over.

Yes, every single last woman in “the south” are exactly like this.

Yes, that’s sarcasm.

You never met a jackass like this in “the north”? Like say NY city, Baltimore, DC?

Current Windows (the NT line) has fuck all to do with Apple. It’s DEC Alpha through and through as MS hired the core Alpha team when they were laid off.

Mark Minasi wrote an article about it in 1998, and showed exactly how NT is Alpha.

And DEC predates Apple by years.

You should dig into how MS came to be and IBM’s involvement.

They essentially created MS, and Billy Boy was their shill.

How are the two different?

Yea, I find needing to know the IP annoying, but by no means difficult or problematic.

I do wish many devs would put some effort into discovery (with Apple stuff, Bonjour works fine, everything else there’s mDNS).

Thankfully the Jellyfin Tizen app (Samsung) at least remembers servers and shows them by name after connecting by IP.

Yep, my current ESXi box is a 2018 Dell SFF that runs surprisingly well at under 80 watts (idles just under 20).

Dell makes a 200w power supply for it - the biggest limitation is RAM - it can only do 64gig.