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  • I just recently put in an N100 mini PC to run as a Plex server. Cost me about £160, pulls all of 6W when idle, and it doesn't break a sweat when transcoding no matter what I throw at it. As a media server I can't recommend them highly enough.

  • This is the correct answer. Due to wear levelling, a traditional drive wipe program isn't going to work reliably, whereas most (all?) SSDs have some sort of secure erase function.

    It's been a while since I read up on it but I think it works due to the drive encrypting everything that's written to it, though you wouldn't know it's happening. When you call the secure erase function it just forgets the key and cycles in a new one, rendering everything previously written to it irrecoverable. The bonus is that it's an incredibly quick operation.

    Failing that, smash it to bits.

  • Very little. I have enough redundancy through regular snapshots and offsite backups that I'm confident enough to let Watchtower auto-update most of my containers once a week - the exceptions being pihole and Home Assistant. Pihole gets very few updates anyway, and I tend to skip the mid-month Home Assistant updates so that's just a once a month thing to check for breaking changes before pushing the button.

    Meanwhile my servers' host OSes are stable LTS distros that require very little maintenance in and of themselves.

    Ultimately I like to tinker, but once I'm done tinkering I want things to just work with very little input from me.

  • Gotta hold my hands up and admit that in my initial haste to confirm the price I fell victim to the Play Store putting sponsored results ahead of what you actually searched for and I installed some crap called minimalist launcher, which charges £70 for a lifetime license. That's what my "insane" comment was based on.

    In comparison it's nowhere near that bad for Niagara, but it is still pricey compared to most apps, and I balk at paying a subscription for software in general so that still stands.

    Might give it another go after all...

  • Reading the article and justification given I do actually get the idea of it. They want to levarage the parent company's clout and connections in order to convince other app makers into implementing a way for Sesame, the universal search app/plugin, to pull results directly from those apps. For the parent company it would give them a USP in the analytics market.

    In short: Think of searching for a product from the launcher and rather than it opening Google, it returns results directly from the Amazon app, or eBay, or any other app that supports the functionality. Obviously there'll be an affiliate kickback for any click-through and you've got a decent revenue source.

    It's a good idea, I get it. Would I feel comfortable using it? I don't know. On the one hand it just cuts out the middle-man of searching for and clicking through to products via Google etc. On the other hand, all of the concerns already raised in this thread!

  • I like Niagara but it's insanely expensive, especially as a subscription. I don't know how people justify it.

    Edit: The above was based on me getting duped by a Play Store sponsored search result and installing some crap that charges £70 for a lifetime licence. In comparison Niagara feels like much better value, but it's still expensive compared to most apps and I still don't like subscribing to software in general.

  • Yeah I'm not disagreeing that it's audible but having read the instructions it leaves a lot of unanswered questions like the above. Presumably people with more knowledge and time than me will figure it all out and write step-by-step guides at some point.

  • Yes, exactly. And how do you even tell the app that you want to self host? I see no option for pointing it to a different core server/bridge.

    ... Unless you have to do it at the point of sign-up? I remember seeing an 'advanced' option on the login screen.

  • Yes I'm very interested in how they claim to have a zero knowledge model but also admit that their bridges decrypt and re-encrypt messages as they pass through. It might only be an ephemeral thing but surely it's a massive, gaping target for bad actors to wire tap.

  • Short answer: figure out how much of that is actually irreplaceable and then find a friend or friends who'd be willing to set aside some of their storage space for your backups in exchange for you doing the same.

    Tailscale makes the networking logistics incredibly simple and then you can do the actual backups however you see fit.

  • It's decent with some caveats.

    My use case is to have a shared backup repository with my wife. I could've (should've) used a shared account but I set us both up with individual accounts and used the library sharing feature as that seemed to be the "correct" way to do it. Except that face and other useful data isn't shared between libraries so it works very differently to how Syno Photos works when uploading directly to a shared space.

    The app also doesn't have separate settings for internal and external URLs, so while I use cloudflare tunnels for most things and call it a day, the data limits they impose meant that I had to setup a reverse proxy internally to make it work over HTTPS while on my home WiFi.

    Development is moving at a hell of a pace though, so I'd be surprised if these things weren't fixed in short order. Meanwhile automatic backups have been working flawlessly.