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  • Totally overkill if you cut the specs to the half I have the feeling they are still overkill

    The only point are the hdds and the mass storage, I can not decide if it is a lot or not, but for your list I would say that you can even go one order of magnitude down. But it mainly depends if the number of Linux isos you want to archive


  • My points are totally in the other direction:

    • stable, this is critic, if the app is not able to performs its duties with. 2 weeks uptime, then it is bad. This also applies to random failures. I don’t want to spend endless days to fix it
    • docker, with a all-in-image, and as a nice to have the possibility to connect external docker composes for vpn, or databases
    • a moderate use of resources, not super critic, but nobody likes to have ram problems

    And then as a second league that lean the balance:

    • integration with LDAP or any central user repo
    • relatively easy to backup and restore
    • relatively low level of break changes from version to version
    • the gui / ease of use (in like with the complexity of the problem I want to address)
    • sane use of defaults and logging capabilities

    That’s all from my side





  • Fritzbox boxes.

    They tick all the checkboxes

    • good standards support (including dect protocol if you want to have an ip phone or even iot protocols)
    • fast wifi speeds
    • cheap (at least for the second hand in ebay)
    • super stable, never had a problem with them in 5 years or more
    • fast roaming support out of the box

    It is a well known brand in Germany but pretty unknown outside that country. Honestly it is the best bang for buck I was able to get.

    Honestly, I would spend 10 minutes checking on them





  • Yes, it will be enough if your services are not exposed via port forwarding , tailscale / zerotier are super convenient for this.

    Honestly, if I were you I would start thinking in having a small computer just to act like a proxy / firewall of you synology, or even better, just run the applications on that computer and let the nas only serve files and data.

    It is much easier to support, maintain and hardening a debain with a minimal intallation than nay synology box just because the amount of resources available to do so. In this easy way you could extent the life of your nas far beyond the end of life of the Sw


  • I use the tchapi docker image for the caldav server (die to the LDAP support for the user Auth) and davx5 for the android integration.

    In Desktop thunderbird already have a native integration and with iPhone is also working fine.

    No problems so far in almost a year, they work reliable and smooth. The only point I somehow miss is the lack of push notifications from the server to the devices, but it is not a deal breaker from me







  • Even if you have a valid point, modern fingerprinting technics usually is done through your data and the connection dependencies of them (which accounts are activated from the sane computer and so on).

    Selfhosting remove some links between your data set like the files you store in drive, the people who appear in your photos, your contact list, to whom you email… Etc etc

    Suddenly all this data is vanishing from the big techs, so, in theory it would be possible to make that association process more difficult