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I use this one:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.orrs.deliveries

It can usually get the status of most courriers unless they’re actively hostile against API/scraping.
Worst case you can still track status manually, or open the webpage.
It doesn’t track payment, but I don’t usually have a tracking number before paying.
I think you could technically add your own custom status entry.
I keep them as active until shipped and verified after which I mark them as completed.

Works well enough for my needs.

You can use an adapter just fine.
Or use a 5.5" drive caddy, that’s just a little drawer that slides in and out.
Real question is it you have enough SATA connectors available.

Warrantied drives still fail, they just happen to ship you a replacement.

Commercial drive trashing solutions are basically a smaller, fancier version of the mechanism in a log splitter.
You could probably rig a sketchy drive wedge/bending thing with a pump jack rather easily.
Wear PPE.

The odds of someone taking a failed drive and transplanting the platters to a working drive is pretty low to begin with.

Me? I don’t have tons of drives to destroy, so I just unscrew the thing, get the platters out and smash those.

Your examples seem vaguely related to home automation, so maybe they’re already in Home Assistant.
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/

It has a bunch of sensors and media related integrations. You can also add custom REST API queries.

For me, Plex would often end up having audio drift lag and it was annoying as fuck. It’d start fine, then the lag would gradually increase until you changed encoding back and forth, then gradually increase again.
Jellyfin just works.
That was enough to get me to switch and not look back. I’m also rid of the bullshit plex login that I never cared for, and also of their push for whatever “recommended” stuff is supposed to be about.

Make sure you test this from outside your network and not simply by using the public IP, but from inside your LAN. Odds are your ISP modem doesn’t support NAT loopback (also known as NAT hairpin).

Yea, it’s not the first time I’ve seen this discussion either.
I don’t wanna seem like I’m not believing you or belittling your experience, I just find it weird that we (we, users, as a whole, not just you and I) have such wildly different experiences with it.

As is, I have a vastly better experience with my own nextcloud than with corporate’s onedrive, with more stuff on mine.

Wish I knew why it’s so inconsistent.
Even though my nextcloud experience is fine, I know plenty of people with the opposite.

Legit have had none of these issues.
I do get a notification once in a while if I modify a picture fast enough, like a quick crop and it’s still uploading. Like snap pic and edit within the same 5 seconds or so.
Basically just a: “there are multiple versions of the same file (which is true), which one do you wanna keep”.

Then again mine is running on a pretty beefy server which might hide issues rooted in performance.
I remember it being hell when I was running it on a RPi.

Yea only times I’ve had issues is if I run out of space allocated to the container that runs it.
I currently have 16GB of phone uploads and 540G overall, it works fine

Nextcloud’s instant upload feature?
Whenever I take a picture or screenshot it’s uploaded there.

Nextcloud might be overkill if that’s the only feature you need. I’ve never used the more involved stuff like chat or document editing, just sync.

Also: McDungeons

Some subjects you might wanna look into.

1. NAT hairpin, also called NAT loopback If you’re sending packets to your ISP’s public IP from inside your LAN and it fails, your ISP modem (or whichever device does the NAT, probably doesn’t support NAT hairpin.

2. Split-horizon DNS That’s when you configure your own DNS for your hosted services, but with a different config on your LAN (which would point towards your services LAN IP) and another config with your public DNS provider (which would point to your public IP)

3. Carrier NAT This could break your chances of having a reachable service as they likely won’t make a port forwarding rule for you in their stuff.

4. IPv6 address types Link-local addresses are within fe80::/10 (kinda similar to how 169.254.0.0/24 is used in ipv4). This IP wouldn’t be reachable from the outside.
   Global unicast addresses are all in 2000::/3, this would be reachable from the outside.

5.IPv6 DNS Make sure to configure both A (ipv4) and AAAA (ipv6) records with the right info. Although if your LAN devices only have ipv4 addresses and you’re doing Split-horizon, you could theoretically omit the AAAA on your LAN

6. Phone DNS shenanigans.
   Some recent phones ignore the DNS they receive through DHCP and instead use something like Google’s which breaks split-horizon and can confuse troubleshooting. This wasn’t in the SSID settings, but in a global “private DNS” setting.

As for your problems, it depends.
There might be a way to make this work without the VPS, but I don’t have all the info.
That said, a VPS or something like a cloudflare tunnel could come in handy. I usually prefer to host directly but still, that’s an option if port forwarding doesn’t work with your ISP.
You’d configure the DNS for your services to the VPS IP and configure the VPS to reach your stuff.
Using the VPS kinda also gets rid of NAT hairpin problems although it is inefficient to go through the VPS from the LAN with the downside of not working when your Internet is down.
You can still use the VPS and Split-horizon DNS if you wanna have local availability from your LAN when your Internet is down.

Good luck

5 Gbps is the theoretical PCIe 1x limit, but I haven’t seen those in a while, so probably not that.

I’m… half tempted to ask you if you can reverse the cables in the path lol.
Maybe a pair somewhere isn’t as good as the others and affects data rate in that direction.
Far fetched, but…

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Same results with -P but without the “don’t fragment”?

Use the -P flag to set the number of parallel streams. Probably, TCP windows size is limiting you on a single TCP connection but multiple connections would work fine.

It’s like over there past the thing next to the other thing but not past the other other thing.
Nope, sorry, I don’t know any of the names even though I walk here all the time.

mTLS is great and it’s a shame Firefox mobile still doesn’t support it.

Haven’t had to use port forwarding for gaming in like 30 or so years, so I just looked up Nintendo’s website…

Within the port range, enter the starting port and the ending port to forward. For the Nintendo Switch console, this is port 1024 through 65535

LMAO, no thanks, that’s not happening.

For your question, you could likely route everything through a tunnel and manage the port forwarding on the other end of the tunnel.

Ultimately, do whatever you think you’ll be able to keep up with.
The best documentation system is useless if you keep putting it off because it’s too much work.