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  • Not a professional, just another meat bag trying to figure his own stuff out. Good job on the introspection. Some times just seeing our own behavior can be difficult. Getting help from a professional is always a good plan. Until then, I would suggest continuing to be mindful of that you do this and make a focused effort to pay attention to the emotions your are feeling when you do these things. Other than that, what are the things you DO want to do? When you you try take these new actions, what are your emotions at these times?

    P.S. Being more self aware is a skill. Don’t be surprised if it your not very good at it to start.


    • Planned Parenthood - Gave my wife quality routine medical care when were broke.
    • Pfblocker - fuck ads
    • Physics Girl - I gave hospice care to my Dad for a couple months. That was literally the hardest most painful experience of my life. I can’t imagine surviving giving full time care to someone for years like her husband has. Me chipping in a couple bucks every month might help reduce money stress in a small way.
    • Harris campaign - I would like Democracy to continue and the opposition seems directly against that happening.





  • You don’t want hardware raid. Some options you can research:

    • Mdadm - Linux software raid
    • ZFS - Combo raid and filesystem
    • Btrfs - A filesystem that can also do raid things

    Some OS options to consider:

    • Debian - good if you want to learn to do everything yourself
    • Truenas Scale - Comercial NAS OS. I bit of work to get started, but very stable once going.
    • Unraid - Enthusiast focused NAS OS. Not as stable as Truenas, but easier to get started and a lot of community support.

    There are probably other software/OS’s to consider, but those are the ones I have any experience with. I personally use ZFS on Truenas with a lot of help from this YouTube channel. https://youtube.com/@lawrencesystems?si=O1Z4BuEjogjdsslF




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    5 months ago

    I can’t give you specifics but generally what is likely necessary:

    1. Backup anything important. You will be doing things that risk loosing data.
    2. Make a bootable USB with a live Linux.
    3. Look up instructions on resizing partitions.
    4. Boot into the live Linux from the USB
    5. Resize your existing Proxmox partition







  • A used older desktop is a good starting machine. I think Unraid is a good starting point as the community is more welcome to completely new people needing a lot of help. Also this channel has a tone of good guides for Unraid: https://youtube.com/@SpaceinvaderOne?si=A8BWLbMq42KzHD8I

    I suggest starting off cheap to learn. Then you can spend money as you determine what is necessary based on problems you encounter. One VERY important thing to remember is that HDDs fail, power surges kill motherboards, water leaks kill the whole thing. If you don’t want to loose family photos, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE IT BACKED UP OFF YOUR SERVER. Preferably “off-site”.




  • I think 2 good concepts come to mind to help you make choices:

    1. Least privilege - Only give things/people just enough access/authority to get the job done. A good example is sonarr doesn’t need access to your personal photos to do it’s job, so don’t give it access if to them.
    2. Defense in layers - Nothing is perfect and you can make mistakes in configuration. Don’t rely on a single point of failure to protect you. If you want remote access use a VPN. But also take steps in your network like putting a password on the logins.