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If our own public services do not lead by example when it comes to road safety, then how do we ever expect to have a society without pedestrian injuries/deaths.
Drivers that are employees should be held to a higher standard. This includes transit operators, truck drivers, city workers/services, officers, garbage truck operators, and cab drivers. Safer city streets begin with everyone.
And as a public PSA, the posted limit is the limit, don’t travel above it on streets/roads.
Also small ways you can help that have a big impact. Next time you get in a cab and you see your cab driver is going 5 kmh over the limit, tell them to slow down in your neighborhood. Most cab drivers drive 20kmh over on city streets.
Seems like the N100 is your option if you are only choosing between these two. Personally I am in the same both as others here, where desktop hardware is my preference at the moment especially if I can find combo deals for mombo/cpu.
Though my recommendation is to consider a board that would support PCIe for a potential LSI HBA card, stay away from any other sata expansion cards unless you don’t value your data.
If you do ever pick up a LSI HBA card with support for either 8/12/24 drives I would also state to plug the whole pool into this card and not mix and match between onboard SATA connections and the card.
A boot drive can still connect to a SATA connection on the board as it not part of the pool.
I’m running my NAS on a 12 year old motherboard with 16gb of ram the max the board supports. Though I wish I could bump this up now after running this system for 9 years.
I would recommend having a board with at least a PCIe slot so if you ever need more drives you can plug them all into a HBA Card. My board has 3 and I use 2 of them at the moment. One for the HBA card that supports 24 drives and another for a 10gb NIC.
The third I would probably use to add another HBA card if I expand drive quantities.
I got the same setup with eight 18TB Exos drives running in a RAIDz2 with an extra spare. Added to this though I got another vdev of eight 12 WD reds with another spare.
With this I can have 2 drives fail in a vdev at any point and still rebuild the pool. Though if more than 2 drives all fail at the same time the whole pool is gone.
But if that happens I have a second NAS offsite at my bro’s place that I backup specific datasets. This is connected with tailscale and a zfs replication task.
2·10 months agoYou have an excellent point, it seems like tailscale would have a larger attack surface.
I wonder if credentials are hashed in some way on tailscale servers, so even with an attacker gaining access to their servers it would essentially be useless to them.
My setup consists of the following:
Unraid, most services I self host run in docker here. Things like plex/jellyfin, nextcloud, unifi could controller.
Proxmox, used to virtualize my pfsense after I moved away from my unifi USG router. A few Linux and Debian headless virtual machines run here as well. Had pihole virtualized here as well but switched over to pfBlockerNG to consolidate.
TrueNAS, all my media shares. I also sync my desktop environments here to have a consistent windows desktop across my desktops and laptops.
Home assistant running on home assistant yellow. Runs a few add-on services.
Tailscale would be the most “secure” as you have no ports open and only you can access it. Keep in mind your services will only be accessible by you along as all your devices connect to your tailscale instance. Sharing access is possible but will require some explanation.
Wireguard is another option, just as secure as the first option, it will need one port open but the port only responds if you are connecting with proper keys/authentication. Like tailscale you can only access your services if connected to your wireguard instance.
Reverse Proxy, any version you choose will work, it depends on your preference of layout and user interface. Nginx proxy manager, haproxy, traefik. Each accomplish the same with different levels of setup, I listed them in my ease of use. If you use pfsense as your router haproxy installation is easy and there are plenty of guides about setup. Nginx proxy manager you can also find a bunch of setup videos where it’s running on home assistant.
With a reverse proxy you will open port 443 and in your firewall rules point it at your reverse proxy. Your proxy will then direct traffic to any one of your services. You will need a domain name so you can access service1.mydomain.com or service2.mydomain.com from anywhere on the web.
With a reverse proxy and any public website I recommend to run them behind a ddns like CloudFlare. You can do this for free and it helps protect your services against DDoS, bots/crawlers, and it obscures your HomeLab IP, as all incoming traffic goes through CloudFlare and then get directed to your HomeLab.
Additional security that can be implemented within your firewall is to block all traffic not originating from your country, or even only allow specific IP addresses.
I use a combination of all this above where a few services run publicly accessible, and everything else is accessed through tailscale or wireguard. Internally I run haproxy on pfsense where public service are proxied.
I also run nginx proxy manager for my local services, this allows me to access my local services such as service1.local.mydomain.com with a full SSL certificate. So once I connect to my home network with tailscale/wireguard I can type in these domain names into my browser. At some point I will move these into haproxy with its own frontend for internal services.
3·10 months agoThanks I will give it a shot and see how it goes. The biggest thing holding me back is older hardware like the Nvidia Shield for example not supporting AV1.
I wonder if it’s possible to re-encode from H.265/HEVC to AV1
Finamp for all your local music, you will need a jellyfin server. Plexamp is pretty good as well, but you will need a Plex server.
Could you provide a few examples or point me in the right direction to bypass the always online or call home features.
Currently my Library is shared with a reverse proxy and only accessable through CloudFlare. My firewall and pihole block my Plex server from sending anything to the Plex analytics address. Within Plex settings I have it set that Plex is not accessible online.
Is there anything else that I can do or missed.
Performance is great IMO, I store all my Plex media on this setup as a network share and never have any issues or slowdowns. I only use the setup as a strict NAS nothing else.
I started with 9 drives at 12tb first, about 3 years later (mid this year) i added the second vdev to my main pool. 9 drives 20tb each.
V-devs do not require to be the same size between v-devs, but they do require to have the same amount of drives in each.
I have unraid and proxmox setups on other machines running independently. Plex and other software for example all access my TrueNAS over the network.
For the TrueNAS system IMO you don’t need much “horsepower”. I run it on a 12 year old motherboard, 12gb ram and a 60gb SSD to boot. Nothing special at all. Unraid and proxmox on the other hand is where I spend the money on ram and processing power.
My Network is gigabit and I get full speed on network transfers, looking to do 10gb in the future, but that would require 10gb NIC’s in all my PC’s and new network switches. Don’t see it effecting my TrueNAS sytem setup. Besides your network transfer is only as fast as the read/write of the drives.
I run TrueNAS myself in this case. I have two v-devs of 8 drives each in raid 2.
Both v-devs have a extra spare each. 4 SSDs are used for quick read and write and the 5th SSD for os boot.
Fractal Design Define 7 XL
You can fit 18 HDDs into it plus 5 SSDs at the same time without custom mount points.
Though you do need to buy the extra brackets and trays.
Not my build exactly but a example.
https://forums.unraid.net/topic/97612-fractal-design-define-7-build/
That may be classified as a bachelor’s unit with a “den”, at least that’s how it would be in Canada. A bedroom is only legally a bedroom once it has a window per the Ontario build code at least.
Though this is the issue, raising a family with two or more kids in a condo may not be something everyone would like to do. It’s all personal preference in the end.
The trouble is the choice in the market is limited in types of homes, the desire may be there to find something other then a large condo tower, or a single family home, but developers cant build them because of the code.
So people can only choose to find a larger more expensive condo tower with a 3~4 full debrooms layout (which is hard), or move into a single family home in the suburbs a few hours out of the city center (which increases the commute).
You are correct they do exist in small quantities, and they do cost more then a single family home.
The reason the cost is higher is because apartment designs with a single long corridor down the middle cause a 3 or 4 bedroom coming off that corridor to usually have 200~300 sq foot more then needed in the layout/design.
Compared to a point access layout for example where layouts can be arranged in a multitude of ways and layouts can become more efficient in use of space.
This article here demonstrates these layouts a little better then I can, it also shows how the sq footages increases as more bedrooma are added along the single corridor layout.
https://www.centerforbuilding.org/blog/we-we-cant-build-family-sized-apartments-in-north-america
So all these factors essential drive a choice of either living in the suburbs in a single family home, or a 1 or 2 bedroom large condo towers in a city center.
The trouble with this is we are “missing the middle” housing as shown in these videos. Homes for growing families that don’t want to live in the suburbs and don’t or can’t fit into a two bedroom apartment tower, or can’t afford the 4 bedroom condo layout. Or families that don’t want to stick their kid into a den without a window.
We need homes such a 4 plexes, 3-4 level condos, laneway homes, all the layouts that are essentially illegal in north america to build.
This video is also worth a watch to see how this ties in with car dependency in cities and suburbs.
Nope the money is going from Google into the pockets of Canadian Telco companies.
It’s actually a good point as companies like Bell and Rogers have large stakes in media as well as things like cell and phone service.
So I wonder even with Google making these “payments”, will any of this money actually make it to reporters and journalist.
Agreed the limits on roads do sometimes feel a little loosely enforced and in some cases car traffic just seems to default to the speed of the individual in front of them.
Though the issue IMO is not with the signage itself. The issue really is with the overall design of the roadway. In north america we seem to not have a proper classification in our roadways. Such that everything is either a hwy or a road, or more precisely a “strode”, neither a street or a road.
In actuality we should break these down and standardize layouts/designs beter. For example all roadways should fall into only one of the following categories, going from highest speed to slowest speed.
“Arterial roads are similar to hyws in that there are no driveways in/off them into plazas/malls. They function like a hwy’s but at lower capacity and speed, they may only be one lane or at maximum two.”
When roadways have their speed dropped the roadway should be redesigned to accommodate this posted limit. This includes the narrowing of lanes, the addition of crossways and crosswalks, speed bumps and speed cushions, benches and planters, trees, all this works together to make higher speeds feel “uncomfortable” and thus drives slow down to the new designed speed as opposed to the posted limit.