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Yes I follow the 3 2 1 rule, one local backup on the hdd, one on another disk at home (connected to a openwrt router) and one offsite on my vps.

I was using ssd for backup because I was dumb... I guess...

Because needed extra space and added mindlessly the hdd without realizing I should have moved to a more efficient approach.

Good point on the expansion. But o am not too bothered about it, as I have always done by moving data around. Takes a while, but leaves you with a set of disks with the old data still there, and it saved my ass a few times in the past. Now I should be fine with good backups, but you never know.

I was impressed that HDDs where drawing so much, compared to overall CPU usage...

And its over 20% saving.

Yes, pennies, but nevertheless interesting.

My energy cost is about 0.6€/kWh, so not trivial, but I actually run it on PV, so not really a money factor, more an energy efficient consideration.

I got put off by how complex that was and that you need to do exactly what you described. So no, I didn't.

I managed telegram tough, and still that was not the most pleasant experience.

I did a few.months ago. Quite a mess, but got it to work at the end of the day.

My experience is described here https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Asynapse

What?

There is no real need for GPU, since its not ideal to use GPU for storage. GPU transcoding is better suited for streaming, and it has lower quality than CPU transcoding.

Anyway, just enable it by setting the proper ffmpeg flags as stated in the readme and there you go.

Well, you need to set the specific ffmpeg flags as stated in the readme... If you already know them, its easy.

Glad I helped!

Let me know how it goes! Happy to help if I can.

Thats more than totally fine, its why I shared it!

Hope it will help

IMU, GPU encoding is for streaming: it aims at fast, not so great, output quality without CPU usage. Exactly what you are getting.

Don't use GPU encoding for storage... CPU encoding is much better.

Edit: since its aimed at streaming, GPU encoding only needs to achieve real time performance, no need to go any faster. CPU encoding instead can go as fast as your cores can push.

Using unbound on opnSense with blacklists. Works wonders and do not require an additional device.

Went to try pfSense. Need to register to their shop to buy a free download link.

Then during installation it won't install unless it can phone home and report.

OpnSense all the way.

Than you for your very appreciated feedback. Feel free to DM/PM me for anything related.

Nothing wrong with that!

Just saying that not necessarily everything should be about money.

Also, knowledge and sharing has been critical for advancement of human civilization. Imagine if scientists where to sell their research instead of publishing it(*) where would be today?

• = I mean, you might have to pay to read those publications, but they are literally free and can ask the authors for a copy free in most cases....

I keep a wiki on all that I do.

This is the page on radicale: here

This is the more general page on reverse proxy here

And so on, Check the sidebar.

I mostly write it so that in future I remember what I did and how I did it, but I use some unusual techniques compared to the mainstream point of view from this community, so keep that in mind.

Side hustles should be hobbies and done with no need to monetize them.

What the fuck, your job should be enough to support you and live, which includes free time to enjoy your life and hobbies.

But I understand, and more than once in my life I had to look for side hustles.

Gentoo linux with Radicale on bare metal. Radicale is behind NGINX reverse proxy that slaps HTTPS and authelia redirect for authentication on top.

And of course i use DAV5X on android.