I haven’t encountered this problem myself.

This isn’t exactly what I recommend. Only in the case the hardware is bleeding edge, as in, it was released less than 6 month ago, then check in which Kernel version it starts to be supported, as well as check the Kernel version shipping with the distribution you are interested in installing. Distro Kernel version >= Kernel version where the driver starts to be included, no problems. Otherwise, check a distro that has more frequent upgrades.

Things to check: GPU, CPU, WiFi chip, Ethernet chip. In windows you can find the information in the device manager. On Linux (e.g: test with a live USB) the command lspci with display the information.

A common case would be: I am interested in Debian because I heard it’s the most stable, will my AMD 5070XT work with that ? Probably not very well, better Check Ubuntu non-LTS or Fedora.

I am not recommending op to modify the Kernel from the Linux distro, just consider this point in choosing the distro.

Caddy is the only reverse proxy I have ever managed to successfully make use of. I failed miserably with Nginix and Traefik.

Caddy has worked very well for me for several years now. It gets the SSL certificate from my domain name provider and all.

FOSS driver only, the choices are AMD and Intel. Nvidia is out of the picture.

Of coursenouveau drivers are still around and under active development, but as far as I know the performance if still very far from reasonable expectations.

If you want to bring more people to Linux, preaching is really not a good way to do that. We are not a religion, we are not a cult. We are an enthousiastic bunch or nerds :)

Avoid behind judgemental of people that use Windows, Mac or other proprietary software. Do not talk about Linux in length when it was not solicited.

Instead, you can show how enthusiastic you are about all the cool things you are doing with your computer that happens to be running Linux!

When people around you, do make the choice to switch, of their own will, then offer your help with all the patience and understanding you have.

All the best 🐧🐧🐧

Take the time to properly understand Linux file ownership and permission. Permission will be the cause of many issues you will encounter in you self-hosting journey on Linux. Make sure you know the basics of chmod (change permission) and chown (change ownership), Linux users and groups. This will save you some head-scratching, but don’t worry, you will learn by doing !

Remember that, if you setup everything right, especially with docker, running as root / with sudo is not required for any of the services you may want to run.

Oh ? I thought this was a new flavored vodka. You saved me a click right there !

I am a little bit bummed to see the RAM is soldered and the storage options are limited to SD card and eMMC. But it definitely looks like the most mature Risk-V computer one can get at the moment.

No. I initially thought of publishing the files. But there are some issues with the design I didn’t fix and the whole thing is built around the NanoPi M4V2, which I don’t think you can buy anymore.

The seller mentions the drives are fully tested, but does not offer a warranty, aside from the Ebay 30-day return policy.

I left a comment to the Ebay seller and asked the same question, but I did not get a reply.

Ah yes ! I just fixed that. Thanks.

What do you use for the bit-by-bit test and how long does it take (depending on disk size) ? I have read about badblocks and that it could take an entire week to test one drive of 12TB, I didn’t have the patient to do that. The long SMART test already took nearly 20 hours in my case.

Thank you

Thank you ! It was a cool design project, but I ended up no publishing the design as it is quite difficult to assemble and work with. here are a couple more photos:

The black box with white front and blue LED lights, yes. I designed and built it myself. The case is made of laser-cuted plexiglass and 3D printed parts. The front plate is PLA, internals are PETG. It’s build around an ARM Single-Board Computer: NanoPi M4V2 with a SATA extension hat.

In a previous post, some were recommending me to use helium-sealed drives for lower noise. The disks I’ve bought are helium-sealed, but they are definitely a little louder at 7200rpm than 5400rpm drives. It’s still acceptable.

I love jellyfin, it’s great ! I haven’t played with Plex much to be honest, so I can’t really compare

My media collection is not backed-up, expect for the spare disks I have now. My photos and documents are encrypted weekly and sent to pCloud. They are also synchronized to my computer and phone with Syncthing. This way the important files are protected by 3-2-1.