I run Heimdall too. Simple and looks good. Let’s my gf easily get to my stuff.

This article told me little to nothing, so I went looking and bleeping computer says it they aren’t listing the devices for security reasons. Guessing hikivision or dahua oem but who knows.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-botnet-malware-exploits-two-zero-days-to-infect-nvrs-and-routers/Akamai’s

Quotes from this article:

“Akamai’s Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) first discovered the botnet in October 2023, noticing unusual activity on a rarely used TCP port targeting their honeypots.”

And

“targeted devices were linked to a specific NVR manufacturer, not named in the report for security reasons”

Out of curiosity, how many magazines do you subscribe or have you subscribed to on Google news?

My feeling is that real or digital magazines are as useful as their newspaper counterpart but I don’t want that either. A web page with content is perfectly acceptable for the same purpose.

And if he said “well there are lots of different types of governments and we can all work together” or some non answer then the headlines would be “biden refuses to call him a dictator”. It’s a no win so the best course was to say it and smooth it over later because maybe it signals they can both be truthful.

Lots of good came out of this meeting overall in my opinion.

Not sophisticated. Reminder once a month to see how many photos I took. If it’s all random dog photos or pictures of things to remember the I ignore it. If it’s quality life events then I just download the new set and add it to my backup.

I used to get caught up with automation but sometimes it just takes 5 minutes to do something and I’m fine with it.

I used to use it for shopping lists, but then one day assistant said it had moved. I couldn’t find it, instructions were unclear so I gave up on shopping lists and keep.

I’ve been burned many times by Google since then, and they’ve taken me from a customer with a lot of Google products and services to only a backup email account and that’s about it.

It’s one thing to switch yourself but if you have family doing it too, especially nontechnical - let them choose their own thing.

Download backups, host them if you want but you need their trust in self hosted solutions when it counts. Photos is not the hill to die in… in my opinion.

Agreed. Google photos is great in a lot of ways. I self host a lot of things but still choose Google photos because it’s great at what it does.

I have backups to switch at a moments notice but the trick is to make your life easier, reliable and consistent.

Agreed. He’s very monotone and I don’t think his mic is very good. I like the content, not trying to tear someone down but he’s not a small channel anymore. Wish the production value was a bit higher to engage us more. I want to watch every video but I only watch the ones that I really want to know more about, for this reason.

P6P is a solid phone and I’ve had great luck with it. I haven’t maxed anything out so wondering why I should get a faster chip with more memory so I can take photos of my dog and message my friends. Google Fi is doing just $400 off a 8P which I may take because I don’t want their watch or buds. I’m not sure what I’ll do.

Unless there are some circumstances that switching will protect her then no. My opinion of course. I learned a long time ago that nontechnical people, young it old, need to value and want to use the tools or it will only cause frustration and less trust in your opinion on other things that may be more critical.

You can explain why something is better or worse but let them make their own choice without being pushed or they won’t be invested in the change.

Only politically convenient ones that could “help him” because they have some sort of power.

It’s a show to make it seem like he’s not the problem.

I wanted a newer car, so I rolled my existing auto loan into the newer vehicles loan. So easy right?

I was upside down on it for years and years. It’s so disheartening to drive a vehicle that’s falling apart and stranding you everywhere but still owe $10k on it. It was an awful decision that took years of pain but that was my lesson on buying things I can afford.

Pixel pass is the most recent service they’ve cancelled on me, my movies I bought on Google TV after being moved to YouTube but that service is gone too.

Their assistant devices have slowly gone crazy and barely understand anything and half the features for them have been removed for one reason or another.

Also the transition from the Nest app for my cameras which was amazing to the shitty Google home app which had half the features and didn’t work with all my cameras so I had half on nest and half on Google home.

Also their WiFi app is now also in Google home and it has less features than the original stand alone. So it’s not all free services, it’s things I’ve paid for and been burned over and over again.

I had a lot of their stuff over the years and it’s always great at first until… it’s not.

Discovered, reported and fixed shortly after. The headline is catchy but the article is more about the process of how it all went down last year.

Also found this noteworthy:

“We would like to thank the Proton Mail team for their fast and professional handling of our report. They also awarded us with a $750 USD bug bounty, which we happily donated to charity.”

The DAS seems limiting because it’s USB. I’m limited on speed, and configuration. It works fine for what it is but it’s basically just a giant USB drive.

I purchased the TR004 because it was cheap and I needed storage. I don’t know what I would have done differently but I feel as though I’m limited by this device instead of enhanced.

A normal HBA/Controller with attached drives in a server would be my ideal I guess. Not possible at this time so I’m working with what I have!

I did that with this giant server I have, but I hate running that thing. This computer I’m using now is honestly a pretty small, proprietary computer and it has no extra headers, it’s pretty packed inside. I will be testing unraid after i’m done with OMV. Thanks for your help and suggestions.

Having a normal HBA would have made my choices a lot easier. Dealing with the DAS complicated it but everyone was pretty helpeful so I think I’m on the right track now.

“why fix what isn’t broken?” are words to live by and if I were a smarter man I’d listen.

I’m joking, kind of, I think we all have to fight off that “grass is always greener on the other side” type of thinking because my life would be better if i just had…or if i just did…or if i only changed…and then i’m back on selfhosted asking for advice again.

The data import will be a challenge all on it’s own. I’ll end up probably splitting the data onto a drobo nas and some 4tb hdd’s I have laying around to give myself some redundancy. Bring the DAS online, format it with the new file format whatever that may be, and reimport the data. PITA but doable.

It’s part of the reason I’m asking because as my data grows, this import process is going to be the most difficult part so I’d like to lock something in for a while.

I am interested in home assistant too so your experience is valuable. Thanks!

Thanks for that! I am more limited by the USB DAS and it sounds like that eliminates TrueNAS for now. I care about my data but I have a drobo too I use for a second backup and also really important stuff is also in the cloud. I’ll finish testing with OMV and then use the trial for unraid. Even if it’s just the serial number, having a USB sticking out the back seems weird, this motherboard doesn’t have a way for me to add an internal USB port.