I already have SMB but want something easier for non tech family members.

Nginx sounds like the way to go and just symlink www -> recipes

Thanks.

edit to add final update:

• Installed nginx docker image on NAS
• Mapped html and config paths to host
• Enabled directory listing support
• Added recipes.local to NAS reverse proxy
• Added recipes.local to RPi CNAMEs
• Bookmarked the site on kids’ computer

For #2 you just need to be smart about which file system paths you map to the container.

Do you really want to have guest OSs to think about?

Why do you want a full VM and not something g lighter weight and easier like Docker?

The central user management is not a feature, it’s a hook to force people to pay for self-hosted software.

I used to love Sonos but the old CEO fucked it up to replace fast local control with flaky slow cloud BS.

They can’t revert because their stupid new headphones require the new version.

I’m not buying any more of their kit unless they fix the user experience.

What’s the exposure surface of this if I have remote access disabled?

You want the big files to live on the NAS, but be navigable from your home dir for convenience and to discourage saving to the local disk.

And make symlinks for large collections, like ~/photos -> /mnt/nas/photos

American term for German car.

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A service needs a server, not just a phone. Do you want to self host, or use the entire hardware installation in someone’s cloud data center?

You can run HA on lighter hardware, or use a VM or docker, but it needs something to host.

When I say “hey Siri open my garage door”, my phone does voice recognition, calls the Apple Home app, which calls my local Home Assistant server, which calls the RATGDO which opens the door.

40-drive RAID is moving out of homelab territory and pretty deep into enterprise storage systems.

Do you already have these 40 drives or are you spacing out a new NAS from scratch?

If it’s from scratch I’d first see if I could get it down to 20 or 24 larger drives to allow the whole thing to fit in a single 4U rackmount case.

Bigger than that and you’re probably stuck with proprietary NAS hardware to link together multiple racks.

It’s a niche of the hard drive market. It persists in “surveillance” HDDs but that’s because they’re optimized for endurance, and low noise is just a side effect.

Not too many people are putting a NAS in their living room.

I use Lutron Caseta which has a local hub and no cloud control. It’s the same company and I didn’t get that notice.

Wonder what’s different about the Decora switches?

A bot which goes around putting the #foo tag on every post in !foo@lemmy.world seems like it causes more spam than discovery.

There might be value in bot-assisted tagging, but tagging its own community isn’t it.

It’s basically a RAID + File shares like SMB.

Loads of DIY options, but I use a Synology so I don’t need to mess with anything.

I think you just described using a NAS as primary storage.

that doesn’t require I keep a full local copy of all the data

So you want a local self hosted backup, but also not a full copy? So like backup only recently changed files?

Are we talking personal offsite backup, or a commercial cloud service?

For cloud backups I like BackBlaze but I’ve never tried to use it as a general cloud storage drive.

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