Yeah I agree.

I moved my stack from podman run to quadlets, but god damn was it frustrating to deal with them. I kept running into weird issues such as: the containers not starting every time on reboot, all containers taking like two minutes to start even without needing to download the image, the unit files not being found by systemd.

I ended up moving back to podman run, because they just worked. It is a shame, to be honest, because I would like to use quadlets.

They offer DRM free audiobooks, and the prices with subscription tokens are really good, 10€ for any book.

Yes, it breaks native login, but you can authenticate with Authentik on your phone for example, and use Quick connect to authorize non-browser sessions with it.

NovaCustom: Coreboot, Linux support, customizable, spare parts.

I have no personal experience, but their products seem nice, though expensive.

https://novacustom.com/

I replaced my old 1gbs router with a 2.5gbs one from Protectli! It has coreboot which was the ultimate deciding factor for me, even though it came at a premium.

Installing OpenWRT wasn’t difficult, but configuring it correctly to use all the ports took some retries.

I also have been trying to install a pixelfed instance of my own on Podman, but no luck so far; I keep failing at the image building part. I wish they would release images of their own.

Thanks for the reply. Looking at this project now. What reverse proxy did you use? I have regular caddy already as a reverse proxy for other projects and I am wondering how I could use it here as well.

Thanks, an interesting option!

Do you need to do some maintenance to keep the data in the array intact?

I read of some btrfs scrub commands and md checks and such, but I am unsure how often to do them, and what they actually do.

Thanks for the info!

Could you elaborate on btrfs on top of md raid?

This one seems the most likely solution for me.

Powerloss might happen as I don’t have a ups.

And when it comes to mdadm, it just happens to be the first and only redundancy tool I know. I am however open to learn and try new things.

ZFS seems interesting, but: I read that ZFS would require quite a lot of RAM, and I was going for 32 GBs only, would it be enough?

What are the advantages of this over mdadm raid and bcache?

Are there some advantages of btrfs over raid? I understand how raid works but btrfs for redundancy is foreign to me.