Another ducky fan!

I just got a ducky 3 and changed out to gateron smoothies.

So happy for the hot swap feature

I built my own. Proxmox with OMV on top. I use ZFS1 for the nas and ZFS2 for the back up

For sure. I highly doubt people asked, will my DNA be safe if I send it to a for profit company?

Setting up my own NAS and offside backup.

Big project for sure, but being in control of my vital backups was important for me. Additionally the up front costs is lower than the subscriptions I would have needed.

I enjoy a program called Alldup. It’s quite nice for my uses

Could I recommend changing the HDD to an SSD?

Really helps the snappiness of the computer.

I have a lot of SSDs at home and I wouldn’t mind shipping one to y’all since I also live in Germany

My pixel 8 pro has one. It’s kinda helpful when determining when to open the windows of my home

Not if you have a proper backup plan.

I have about 200ish TB or about 24 drives and 3 of them failed all are used. I have a solid backup plan so no issues with failing drives. Saves me roughly 100-200 a drive.

New drives have infant mortality as well. An inverse bell curve would be the distribution.

I still shoot film and I still have a record player.

First smart phone was an iPhone 5S.

Guess my age?

I have 2 monitors and sometimes I wish I had a tiny monitor so I can put any video calls in the corner so I don’t have a dumb overlay on my productivity monitors

I archived Tom Scott as soon as he announced his departure

Especially if it supported gestures.

Being able to pull down the notification shade with a swipe on the reader was my favorite feature.

None. Do your research and due diligence.

This could help but make sure you take everything with a grain of salt

https://app.joinbeaker.com/

I’m a big fan of Mikrotik with Unifi WiFi.

Mikrotik I have a RB5009 which is powerful enough for all of my needs.

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Bitwarden Premium is $10 a year. Less than $1 a month.

Bitwarden also has a free tier.

If you’re okay being in the EU, I use Ionos. €1 a month with a IPv4 address and no contract.

On the US side, Oracle has a free tier for 2 arm CPUs. You could load balance between them, but they’re still kinda slow.

Either of these you can test for very low costs and see what you enjoy.

I often skip first gens hence why I got a 12th gen and then upgraded it to a 7040 series. Super happy with the battery life and performance.

Mostly for PiHole.

From the wall I’m pulling 120w

Ryzen 5700G

128GB ram

2tb + 4tb NVMe drive

2 x 20tb HDDs

Unifi Enterprise 24 PoE

Mikrotik RB5009

2 access points

3 cameras

Fiber runs cooler than copper all of my SFP+ are fiber.