[02:06] 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 [02:38] I am currently running Debian on a home NAS. I sync it with my Next cloud server [03:16] You could do a 4TB RAID1+0 with a nice machine for that price. [03:17] 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 [03:18] Noise is big for me, and I'd like to replace my desktop with a laptop and play some games [03:18] It is funny as Hector is in the same boat [03:18] but if I were to travel, I need battery [03:18] What laptops is he looking at? [12:10] I think system 76 has a gaming laptop too. Kind of [12:44] We have laptops with Nvidia [12:44] Like the Oryx Pro [13:39] Razer has reached out to the community to make their laptops work well with Linux [13:40] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.digitaltrends.com/computing/razer-blade-laptop-getting-linux-support/amp/ [13:41] @RazPi, I like when companies do this [13:42] 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 [13:43] 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 [13:43] The only thing my think pad is missing is a gpu [14:41] @KMyers how do you have the home nas setup? Any neat software configuration? [14:45] @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 [14:46] Coolio. That's likely the route I'm gonna go for local storage. What type of storage controller are you using? On board? [14:46] 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 [14:46] How does your own cloud deal with 0-length files? [14:47] Mine is in my documents folder. Whenever a lock file is created, it continuously syncs the file and fails. [14:47] @govatent, Yes, I am not a huge fan of hardware raid cards. They are a bit of a mess [14:48] @AdamOutler, It does not, those files fail. In their defense, the same thing happens with OneDrive and a few other cloud storage solutions [14:48] My own cloud client freaks out and repeatedly tries to sync [18:12] damnnnn [18:46] This is going to be a good month! [18:47] Stop using all of Miami's internets, @KMyers ! [20:24] i'm starting to feel a bit like a stranger here [20:27] Why? [20:27] ahoneybun was removed by: ahoneybun [20:28] bc i'm never really here anymore... did aaron just leave the group? [20:29] ahoneybun was added by: ahoneybun [20:29] well I can leave lol [21:26] @Ivoriesablaze, How do you think I feel. Kinda feel like a stranger a lot of the time. [21:27] @Ivoriesablaze, Nah, your not