gronjo45

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[–] gronjo45@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

I've been wading through the past 2 months of messages because I was far too incompetent at systems management (and hardware) to even pose the question correctly.

Ideally, I'd like my NAS to have a VLAN'd off way of sectioning my security camera footage and my website so I don't get locked out of it somehow. I heard that I need to somehow create a topology that involves a WAP, Switch, the physical chassis with the NAS in it, and the actual modem/router into the wall. I want to have a streaming server for music/video, a Hugo website, an email server, and a file system where I can store projects just in case I need to access them somewhere other than my home.

I've also heard others suggest some of the larger drives for the RAID array, and I've seen various things suggested such as Thomas Krenn's "mdraid", which requires a "Hardware RAID controller" which makes me wonder what this thing actually is. I need to do more research into it, but I'm just a little stumped on how the drives fit together (physically and logically). Thanks for the help!

[–] gronjo45@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Awesome! I'll send you a DM a bit later with some details about the Chromebook when I dig through the mountain of stuff in front of me. Appreciate the help :)

[–] gronjo45@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Any advice on adjusting to a search engine like Searx or enhancing how to use DuckDuckGo since Fennec comes with it?

Is there a gospel-like resource on Search Engines and using particular query delimiters? Just been tough reading some of these documentation pages with legion jargon words

[–] gronjo45@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

I'll have to get one of those 12 or 14TB harddrives in the future so I can actually have a proper NAS. Is TrueNAS what FreeNAS is now? I see their parent company is iXSystems. I've heard stuff about different file systems like "ZFS" and all these other fancy 3 letter acronyms. The last time I bought software was many years ago, so would you suggest paying for their OS? Thanks for the advice, now I just need to get a better job to actually afford the toys :(

[–] gronjo45@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

So now that I'm a little farther along in my tech adventures, I've found myself staring at the two 2TB WD 6Gbps HDDs that I got from Best Buy awhile back. I didn't know if I needed to buy a chassis for them (I probably do, I'll do some more research, just been trying to get back to a mountain of comments) I'm just not really sure what else I'd be using a NAS for besides streaming movies and accessing my work projects from a Dropbox-esque in-home solution

[–] gronjo45@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm going to look into FreeNAS and Unraid. I have 2 WD 2TB HDDs that are relatively new that I've needed to just pop into the switch connected to my router. The whole networking scene has been a bit overwhelming having had so much of my foundational computer knowledge shifted I haven't gotten around to it yet. I want the router set up in a different room so I can make more stuff with Ethernet possible rather than connecting wirelessly.

How does a docker container get lost? Does it have something to do with the "contiguity" of theway the block devices partition data? Does it get separated from the other blocks physically? Or is it just a software error and I'm over thinking it? Thanks for the advice!

[–] gronjo45@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Sorry for the late response, I've been wading through my inbox to get back to most :)

That's gotta be why they make it so damn hard to uninstall ChromeOS... I like that Linux is being popularized more, but I hear whispers from the F(L)OSS community in my head that Canonical and Microsoft are one in the same. Its a bit confusing some of the rhetoric surrounding certain companies and software other than the blatantly obvious like Microsoft or Google, but I'll never quite understand programmer "martian"...

Have you worked on chrome books before and swapped the OS?

[–] gronjo45@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Apologies for the long wait for a response. Been trying to get back to people.

I checked out the Chromebook I have and made a post on the Gentoo form, but don't believe I'm able to do it for my particular model because of how I'm sandboxed in a subsystem of something. Could I DM you and we could chat more about sending Chrome OS to the shadow realm?

[–] gronjo45@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Awful!!! I remember using those junktops when I was in high school...

Made me realize I still have one lying around and I tried to put Linux on it, but they seem to only let you sandbox Linux in it...? Not able to enter BIOS supposedly due to the firmware is obnoxious. Is there any way to put coreboot on over the firmware or something?

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