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  • Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy

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  • The host is running Proxmox, so I guess their kernel just works with it.

    It does run the fan way more than I'd like, but its noise is drowned out by the original AMD cooler on the CPU anyway, but thanks for the info, I may look into it... But I guess I'd have to set up GPU pass-through on a VM just for that.

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  • Drivers? Are you running it on Windows? On Linux I just plugged it in and it worked, Jellyfin transparently started transcoding the additional codecs.

    It fixed my issue with tone mapping, before this HDR files on my not-so-old TV showed the wrong colors.

  • don't do ai and code kids

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  • That's hilarious

  • don't do ai and code kids

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  • I don't have a Windows computer on hand, but I think del works on directories? I'm going by very old memories here

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  • Eh, we're still moving electrons around in wires like Faraday did in the 1800s!

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  • If it's possible at all

  • don't do ai and code kids

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  • Windows has rmdir?

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  • I think we need to qualify "idling", my NAS runs bittorrent with thousands of torrents, so it's never really "idle", it just isn't always doing intensive processing such as transcoding.

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  • Eh, TBH I'd like to consume less power, but I mean, a 30-40W difference isn't going to ruin me or the planet, I've got a rather efficient home all in all.

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  • And more freedom.

  • Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy

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  • I think you can install OpenMediaVault on that, at least I used to run it on a Pi 3 and an USB drive. Then just run whatever docker container you wish to.

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  • as long as you drop the video card

    As I wrote below, some motherboards won't POST without a GPU.

    Take only that extra and you probably have a few years usage before additional electricty costs overrun NAS cost. Where I live that’s around 5 years for an estimated extra 10W.

    Yeah, and what's more, if one of those appliance-like NASes breaks down, how do you fix it? With a normal PC you just swap out the defective part.

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  • So I did this, using a Ryzen 3600, with some light tweaking the base system burns about 40-50W idle. The drives add a lot, 5-10W each, but they would go into any NAS system, so that's irrelevant. I had to add a GPU because the MB I had wouldn't POST without one, so that increases the power draw a little, but it's also necessary for proper Jellyfin transcoding. I recently swapped the GPU for an Intel ARC A310.

    By comparison, the previous system I used for this had a low-power, fanless intel celeron, with a single drive and two SSDs it drew about 30W.

  • New to Linux which OS to use?

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  • I used to use arch btw, but then I grew old and moved to Fedora. Then I saw the light and installed Bazzite on everything, even my coffe machine. It's got RGB now.You should install Bazzite, save your soul.

  • New to Linux which OS to use?

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  • Are you saying that you use arch btw?

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  • Idk what's that in the picture, but it's not a horse

  • New to Linux which OS to use?

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  • Whatever beginner friendly distro you choose, I suggest you use it as if you were a grandma, especially if you have experience in troubleshooting Windows. It's natural to try to find the solution to a problem by doing a Google search, but first of all Linux changes quickly, so solutions that are older than 2 years may be outdated, over 5 years they likely are, and they may apply to different distros than yours, so be careful. Always check your DE's settings app first, those have gotten really good in the last few years.Don't be afraid to ask in chatrooms if your distro has any, the myth of the rude Linux community is just that, a myth.

  • New to Linux which OS to use?

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  • Package manager. Package managers are responsible for managing your installed software. There are a variety of options, and distros typically will choose one as their default. Pacman for Arch, Aptitude for Debian, RPM for RedHat, and others. These are mostly interchangeable for the end user, but each has slightly different commands and frontends. So just be aware there will be a bit of an extra learning curve moving from a distro that uses one to a distro that uses another.

    RedHat uses dnf, RPM is the package format.

    Apt sucks, pacman is ok, dnf is the best, history and rollback are great.

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  • That's for sysadmins.

    These days I don't even care what fs I use, I just let the distro choose its default, I simply make sure encryption is enabled.