I just throw them in.

Only sometimes I create subfolders by name of the other person.

I don’t care about metadata (probably should, but have yet to find a way that’s easy and future-proof)

if you switch off location services

…then no app gets a location anymore.

I still have a phone containing Google, and cannot change this situation (maybe with my next phone). Usually, I switch off location services very often and I avoid such tracking apps because all my data goes to Google then.

Would it be advisable to use this at all before I get rid of Google?

If you want to do this as an ESP project anyway, you don’t need the extra controller.

Fans take a simple PWM signal, which your ESP (or even one of the smallest Arduinos) can create easily.

Use qemu, or proxmox (it includes qemu).

Create one VM to your liking, then make it a template.

So when you need a new VM, you clone the template, and that’s it.

Good ideas. Very well explained.

Besides ansible, also have a look at “templates” and “cloud-init” for VM generation.

The biggest issue is that the app and recommendation algorithm isn’t going to be useful with 20 songs.

They are not testing for usefulness.

If your basic logic runs with 5 songs, then give them 5, not 20.

Nextcloud…

Did you see the Documentation section in the README.md?

Yes, that’s why I’m asking.

How to use this thing?

don’t want your server maxing out all day

But don’t you think about that poor server?

It is feeling so bored out and it’s whole life worthless…

Anyone know of something that isn’t Nextcloud Chat?

Do you absolutely need to put ONE tag on it all and say this is it?

Synology is great because of the easy backup. But it is limiting your ideas for your new NAS. Leave it in “backup corner” :)

Play with ZFS, see how much flexibility it really has, and when you got that up, then write your first own smb.conf - and the new NAS is done.

For the host, proxmox. There’s nothing else at the moment that makes more sense.

What the … LOL

Samba makes the same files available via another protocol. Sometimes you prefer a web browser interface, or the nextcloud companion app, and sometimes you prefer the Windows explorer.

Is owncloud or an alternative enough, or do I need something more elaborated like TrueNAS?

I run a Nextcloud for my family and then serve the same folders again via samba to the same users. Don’t need a separate NAS for this, just activate the samba service on the same machine.

Regarding the pirate ship, I don’t know. I haven’t tried that yet.

I have liked the Sonoffs with Tasmota for many years. But recently, they use different chips that make this impossible.

So I ordered my last ones from athom.com, because they sell them preinstalled with Tasmota (or other firmware).

In Germany, yes. I think they are selling them worldwide.

https://www.velux.de/produkte/sonnenschutz-und-rolllaeden

They are pretty reliable, with a builtin oversized battery and small solar panel, remote control, and 5 years warranty iirc.

They offer an integration into smartness - I can look up for you later which one.

I am planning currently to get some, but without their solar, just normal power and my own smart relays to control them.

reassemble the zfspool

zfs itself can do that. The zpool members know the pool and the other members.