 So I have about 500 bucks I've been saving up with credit card rewards. I was gonna buy a qnap or synology. But I decided instead of spending half of that on just an under powered nas, I have a spare hp business machine I can turn into a freenas. My question, freenas or Ubuntu with one cloud? Or some other solution. If I go free nas I'll get a nice 8 port sata card and will start with 3 4tb drives with zfs
 I am currently running Debian on a home NAS. I sync it with my Next cloud server
 You could do a 4TB RAID1+0 with a nice machine for that price.
 I'm having the worst time deciding on a laptop. I'm still down to Zephyrus and Razer Blade 14 (2017). Zephyrus has 1070 nvidia and quiet.. Razer is actually pretty linux compatible, great build quality, but sounds like a jet engine
 Noise is big for me, and I'd like to replace my desktop with a laptop and play some games
 It is funny as Hector is in the same boat
 but if I were to travel, I need battery
 What laptops is he looking at?
 I think system 76 has a gaming laptop too. Kind of
 We have laptops with Nvidia
 Like the Oryx Pro
 Razer has reached out to the community to make their laptops work well with Linux
 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.digitaltrends.com/computing/razer-blade-laptop-getting-linux-support/amp/
 @RazPi, I like when companies do this
 I like the build style of the Razer, I'd be lying if I said that it didn't appeal to me as a Mac alternative with the machined aluminum envy
 The fan noise is the only reason I haven't been won totally over but I'm wondering if it's not do big an issue in the 2017 model
 The only thing my think pad is missing is a gpu
 @KMyers how do you have the home nas setup? Any neat software configuration?
 @govatent, Honestly it is just a Debian box, nothing special aside from 8 TB of hotswap disk space. It was a machine I bought off of @RazPi . It has 4 bays. I just mount my home directory on other machines. The home directory is synced with my next cloud which is in a colo in Lenior, North Carolina
 Coolio. That's likely the route I'm gonna go for local storage. What type of storage controller are you using? On board?
 The only special thing I have setup there is that I have a persistent VPN tunnel between the NAS and my private VPN to allow me to access everything remotely if needed
 How does your own cloud deal with 0-length files?
 Mine is in my documents folder.  Whenever a lock file is created, it continuously syncs the file and fails.
 @govatent, Yes, I am not a huge fan of hardware raid cards. They are a bit of a mess
 @AdamOutler, It does not, those files fail. In their defense, the same thing happens with OneDrive and a few other cloud storage solutions
 My own cloud client freaks out and repeatedly tries to sync
 damnnnn
 This is going to be a good month!
 Stop using all of Miami's internets, @KMyers !
 i'm starting to feel a bit like a stranger here
 Why?
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 bc i'm never really here anymore... did aaron just leave the group?
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 well I can leave lol
 @Ivoriesablaze, How do you think I feel. Kinda feel like a stranger a lot of the time.
 @Ivoriesablaze, Nah, your not