Genuinely helpful advice! Thanks!

Hey now! Modus Operandi Tinted theme looks great and is easy on the eyes!

Me too and I’m pretty sure it counts!

Bad news, I think she just re-spawned in Japan. Anyone got silver bullets or something?

It’s C, but the unusual look of having two semicolons is the reason why I prefer it over while (True). It feels more like “here is the weird part”.

Very much needed for embedded systems, but I’m more of a for (;;) guy myself!

That’s what I’m talking about! :D

Id rather have a crap mouse-drawn MSPaint image over slope any day

Appalachia is a wild place

Shakira law

I can’t even

Still way better than the best LLMs can do

Maybe trying with some Raspberry Pis for your services (takes up less space, low power) and building a dedicated machine for the NAS, as suggested by @hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip, but that’s a whole different budget.

Otherwise, maybe going for some mini-pcs, more recent second-hand PCs (stronger CPU for video encoding) or just more RAM and more disks.

I guess the final price will depend on what exact machine you can get your hands on.

Nice project!

Given the tight budget, here is what I would do, especially if you are not too constraint by space and don’t mind a few extra watts of power consumption. The Raspberry Pi are getting expensive, and the 200USD will barely get you a RPi5 nowadays. You said there is no market for you for second hand sever hw, but I’m guessing it should not be too hard to get used office desktop PCs.

• Get two of these. Maybe Optiplex or Thinkstation. You can probably get something decent <50USD each.
• Get two small SATA SSDs for the OS (128 - 256GB), around 30USD each.
• Get your storage drives. You should get 3 of them so you can have ZFS raid redundancy.
• On one machine, install TrueNAS and your storage drives. Default RAM is probably enough.
• On the other one, upgrade the RAM to 8 or 16 GB (~50USD), install your favorite Linux distro, and you can run your services, accessing the storage with NFS!

To me it feels safer (against my own mess-up) to separate the storage and the services, plus this setup is fairly upgradable. You’ll probably have space to add more storage drives, even maybe a cache SSD; increase the RAM; add a third machine etc.

Of course it’s just one idea, maybe other another layout might fit your use-case better, idk.

Good luck!

Don’t let the prospect of beheading get on the way of your dreams!

Guess I’ll pronounce it Kh Duh from now on!

Found the KDE user!

From the post title I assumed that OP was referencing the album as well.

As a Mastodon album I think I might prefer Blood Mountain, but the song Blood and Thunder is such a banger!

HARPOONS THRUST IN THE SKY

Kazuma Kazuma !

Injecting bleach would surely help, as per one very stable genius.