I remember seeing news about it, reading the specs, and immediately losing interest.
2GB RAM with 32GB of slow eMMC storage, Wifi 4 (2.4ghz only too), Bluetooth 4.0, not great 5MP camera, and a 720×1440 IPS screen were fine in 2010, but this is a device released in 2020.
The software aspect also turned me off, reading about so many things that were in progress or 'sort of working'.
They haven't locked themselves to Google hardware by choice, it's the only hardware with the security features they need so far.
Remember graphenes goal is a very secure OS, not just a more private degoogled one, for that there's /e/os and other options that support more hardware.
Sounds like NFS might still be the way to go for you.
For backups personally I use Restic and connect over SFTP via SSH, since that's just built in and doesn't need any configuration.
For more traditional file sharing I use WebDAV with SFTPGo, since I need windows and android compatibility too, and webdav is pretty easy to setup and use.
And I also use Syncthing for keeping some directories in sync between devices.
Cloudflare is fine for DNS hosting and the control panel is well made and easy to use compared to a lot of other services, they have no access to your traffic or anything unless you specifically use their proxy features.
Add the domain to cloudflare, change the nameservers in Bluehost, and you should be all set to use Letsencrypt via the API.
Downside is ties to Russia and performance is really bad, as I understand it's an Electron web app, not a native application. It also won't save to network shares properly and will lose your file if you do.
Newer CPUs can also just be better optimized and have more faster cache and that sort of thing, so might be faster at running a process even if they're the same on paper.
Essentially a container shares the kernel of the host, so uses less resources to run.
VMs are useful when you need more isolation or a different kernel (or need to add kernel modules).
For most purposes containers are the easy option.
I guess I could have a Container with a bind mount to a dataset that I want to be able to share over NFS or SMB, and handle that from whatever OS I put in the Container, right?
Yep!
But, I could also have a VM do that, and though it wouldn’t be able to share the data with other VMs, it can do it over NFS, can’t it?
Also yes, just a more complex setup with more performance penalty due to using NFS to share data into the VM.
I remember seeing news about it, reading the specs, and immediately losing interest.
2GB RAM with 32GB of slow eMMC storage, Wifi 4 (2.4ghz only too), Bluetooth 4.0, not great 5MP camera, and a 720×1440 IPS screen were fine in 2010, but this is a device released in 2020.
The software aspect also turned me off, reading about so many things that were in progress or 'sort of working'.