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Yes generally around 1TB on cheap plans. That’s a ton of data though for streaming media, if youre moving more than that getting a higher tier VPS would make sense.

It costs a little but a VPS running Pangolin and Crowdsec is a decent replacement for cloudflare for hiding your IP and having some extra protection.

Most VPS are on 1Gbps connections, but even if it only has 100Mbps that’s plenty.

Just a reverse proxy, I was using Caddy, moved to Pangolin because it’s neat.

From what I’ve seen the various Linux OSes for phones are pretty poor for real use, most features missing, unstable, very poor security, and so on.

It supports DDR4 if you buy a motherboard that supports DDR4 too.

I would probably go Intel with iGPU for the transcoding and acceleration for Immich. i3-14100 is fast and cheap.

Otherwise you definitely have far more CPU power than you’ll need for those apps so no worries there.

Have you checked while it’s running all the ML tasks on import? Mine uses a good chunk of RAM while that’s running.

Delta chat seems pretty good, you can easily self host and it’s very lightweight.

I do not recommend matrix, the apps aren’t great, and hosting is a lot to deal with.

So many ‘web hosts’ run really outdated PHP versions, it’s quite frustrating to see.

It sounds like the app requires some manual intervention to start/stop tracking, is there a way to make it work like google location history where it’s always fully automatic and in the background without extra battery drain?

Some of the other apps I’ve tried before for my traccar instance had a lot of battery drain or would randomly stop working in the background, I don’t remember which ones I tried as it was awhile ago.

You can also start to drag, hit alt+tab, and then drop in another window which is how I normally do it.

For 2 that’s neat to have, but how do you send the clipboard or something thats not in a file manager?

I find it really buggy, it often loses connection and won’t connect to multiple devices at once.

Also how is speech to text AI? It has existed for decades, obviously a lot better now but I don’t think I’d consider it “AI”

There’s a ton of added friction when doing things outside the basic ‘install Flatpak app’. Security generally comes at the price of being difficult to use.

For new users it also means virtually every guide or there on fixing an issue or installing extra software won’t apply.

Its just called a matrix server, you don’t need to tell anyone the specific kind.

Yes mirrors are the fastest to rebuild I believe, it’s also to give you a backup, as any kind of raid or mirror is not a functional backup, it only provides redundancy.

I would not do raid 10 for the same reason of no backup that way.

What about 2 mirrored pools of 2 drives each, then back up the main pool to the other with either ZFS snapshots or a tool like Restic.

Ideally you also need an offsite backup of important files too, but that gets you part way to a robust system that can handle corruption or accidental deletions.

Mini PCs are even less usually, mine are around 2W idle which is less than my Pi! (i3-7100u CPUs)