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Storage expansion options are the one thing mini-pcs are bad for, so not really any great options there.
You could get a m2 to SATA adapter board, but getting the additional drives powered if you don’t have a ATX PSU isn’t fun.
And yes, use USB only for rarely accessed data.
Honestly, if you want to simplyfy things and reduce maintenance burden, just use Debian stable.
Says 8gb max. My board only has one SODIMM slot, so I can’t test it, but I would say it is a bit of a risk to just assume it will work with more.
I think that CPU only supports up to 8GB RAM. Also the m2 is only for Wifi cards I think.
I have a somewhat similar ASUS board and it is quite ok otherwise, but don’t expect wonders from that CPU.
A bit annoying will be that you need to either use one of the four SATA ports for the system drive, or find some way to boot from the PCIe 1x port. The similar ASUS board that I have does not support booting from NVMe drives though, so even if you added an adapter for this it probably wouldn’t work (maybe if there is an BIOS update for it).
You could boot from a USB3 drive… not ideal but workable. Or add more SATA ports via an PCIe 1x extension card… but those might be hard to find, usually they require a longer (4x?) PCIe port.
P.S.: if you end up buying that board I can sell you 2x 4GB DDR3 SODIMMs that I have currently no use for :p
Well, I am paying less, but if you realistically calculate the costs of hardware over its lifetime, this is certainly not unrealistic for many homelabs.
Impossible to say without providing more details. But somewhere between 10€ and 200€ a month depending on your setup and how you calculate in hardware costs.
Yes it does. It really is just a pre-configured Prosody server, made by one of the core Prosody developers.
Snikket does not mention XMPP intentionally as their entire reason for existing is that it is supposed to be XMPP for people that don’t care what XMPP is. They laid out that reasoning in a blog post a while ago.
You might want to try Snikket for XMPP then. Really streamlined hosting experience all out of the box. But Ejabberd also improved massively in that regard and their Docker images and deb/rpm repos pretty much work out of the box these days.
I host both Ejabberd and Synapse since some years and while I can see how self-hosting Synapse is a bit more approachable for first time self-hosters since it uses mostly web-technology under the hood, Ejabberd has been much less of an headache to maintain over the years. It pretty much just works and uses very little system resources (contrary to Synapse, even though it has improved a bit in that regard lately).
Edit: OpenPGP is supported by some XMPP clients for many years and OMEMO is significantly less problematic than Matrix e2ee in my experience. Matrix is a never ending stream of forced key resets and “message could not be decrypted” if you use it with the official web-client.
You can install any desktop environment like KDE and I guess proxmox should allow passing through the main GPU to a VM.
Maybe there is also a way to install KODI without a full-blown DE.
It might be the SATA controller that has an issue, hard to figure out. In that case you will probably have no choice but to replace the hardware. But IMHO in nearly all cases an old laptop is more convenient for beginner self-hosting than a RPi.
The CPU in that laptop is very likely still faster than a Rasberry PI 5 (and for sure faster than a RPI4).
I would replace the HDD with a SATA SSD drive.
Maybe also see if the DVD drive can be pulled out and replaced with an adapter for another SATA connector.
Edit: the error is a bit cryptic, but the SMART result of the drive actually looks not so bad. But running especially the Nextcloud Postgres database on a SSD will help a lot (I hope you are not using the SQLite option).
Definitly go with Forgejo ASAP.
As for concerns that Forgejo fizzles out… highly unlikely given that the by far largest former Gitea instance is the driving force behind it (https://codeberg.org). But yes, as all community run FOSS projects that don’t rely on for-profit investments it will be a community effort to keep it running.
So if you turn off bridge mode on the ISP router it works? Maybe check the IP and so on that the ISP router gets assigned then.
As a shot in the dark: maybe the fixed IP gets assigned according to the MAC address of the ISP router, in which case you might have to spoof the same MAC on your Asus router.
Another thing might be the ethernet port on the ISP router. I have one that allows bridge mode only on one specific LAN port.
It is a SATA SSD, so read speed is near the maximum SATA3 can do. Write is a bit slow though, which points to a cheap ssd.
btrfs and btrbk are good options for easy snapshots and backups.
The reverse is also true. The typical Windows PC is much more prone to being breached than a reasonably well managed Linux server.
Probably not, but it is nice to still have WiFi in the house when power cuts, as you can easily run the PoE switch on a UPS.
Clearly Mumble. No need even for Docker, it comes packaged with most distros.
https://snikket.org/ can do that well. Currently only 1:1 voice calls though, small group conference calls are still a work in progress.
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