This is they way. At least in the US where these things are very cheap. In my country you need to bee very lucky to even find the old ones for under $150…

Proxmox cluster. And you can run all your services in LXC containers instead. And not have to bother with docker? And have cetralized storage to your NAS?

Lucky you. These are fun machines!

I lived in a dorm room at uni. And we didn’t pay for electricity in the common areas. One christmas they turned off the heating for some reson. I got so frustrated I turned on the ovens in the kitchen and opened them up to heat the kitchen/living area. Which worked. But it was probably not cheap for them after a few days :)

Bigger powerbricks with splitters perhaps?

It’s similar to the story about a lady that spent 24 hours a day recording live stuff to VHS from tv channels in the 80’s onwards. Turns out a lot of it was never saved by the broadcasters. She had some of it on literally thousands of tapes. Apparently she had like 6 recordings going on in parallell, all the time. Spending a lot of her time switching out tapes…

I guess you could call her an analogue horder? :)

Got myself NVME SSD read cache for my DS918+. Hoping to improve speed when browsing media libraries in apps like Jellyfin.

It actually automatically tracked every container on my local docker host by default on install. But you need to configure the notifications and the triggers for more granularity. Very nice!

Google 3-2-1 backup and and make it happen, and you will be resonably safe without going overboard. If you haven’t got a NAS yet, I would suggest at least a cheap one as primary storage.

I just find new great software to tinker with every day on this sub. Luckliy I am on sickleave and have plenty of time. Othervise this sub is anxeity inducing 🤓

If you want to track docker images, I just found ”What’s up docker” and am using it as we speak :)

That’s impressive. Only ones that has been removed, or in total?

And the grown up version of that is /r/tubearchivist (it also includes a plugin to sync to Jellyfin).

Some kind of photo management and backup system. I never went the Google Photos route and am now very happy with using Synology Photos and doing backups of my entire diigital life with Synology Hyperbackup. Works great even when NOT exposing it to the internet.

And of course Jellyfin for media streaming.