You don’t even need much cash. An old N40L and four 250gb ssds will get you 750gb running Truenas and raid.

OK I had no idea this existed so thanks! I’m one of today’s lucky 10000 I guess. I have an old Panasonic with Viera and had no idea it did this. Not working perfectly yet but not far off.

OK I’ll take a look at it, interesting.

What TV do you have? What are you running Kodi on?

What TV remote?

Pretty much this. Imagine some untutored user given the jellyfin client. They can figure it out pretty quickly as it is much like Netflix. Compare that to a Kofi on a Pi, first you have a keyboard/mouse. OK, then arrow keys and spacebar get you a ways in - now how do I stop the video? Panic till you find out it’s the X key.

It is the simplicity vs functionality debate. Kodi is amazingly configurable but it is not accessible for your normal household user without a ton of work. Jellyfin(as an example) just runs on the Roku they are already using.

Eventually I’m getting off my old Roku 3 permanently for Kodi, so I’m just saying I wish Kodi had a dummy mode.

The learning curve for Kodi is pretty steep. Most folks aren’t going to bother.

Oh yeah I plan to update. But only when I really get annoyed.

Er I’m still running a FX-8350 as a gaming machine (not AAA games obviously). I had another one as a host for a few VMs and it was more than enough till the motherboard went. One day I’ll upgrade I guess.

Yeah I don’t see the issue here. Don’t install a bunch of random plugins, set it up as recommended, and Nextcloud is just fine and has a nice mobile app and functions.

You can use something separate like Zoneedit for the DNS records

Old Motorolas, they really hate users.

Sort of. The activation license will work as long as you have it. They won’t renew support though, which effectively kills it when the support contract runs out.

Lol no, just old radios. My point is just that my requirements are pretty widely varied.

I’ve seen you recommending this here before - what’s its selling point vs say qemu-kvm? Does Incus do virtual networking without having to straight up learn iptables or whatever? (Not that there is anything wrong with iptables, I just have to choose what I can learn about)

Doesn’t mean anything right now if you are running ESXi, except you can’t reinstall ESXi unless you kept the image and you won’t get ESXi updates.

I need full on segregated machines sometimes though. I’ve got stuff that only runs in Win98 or XP (old radio programming software).

Admittedly I have not dug too deeply into Proxmox but its learning curve appears kinda steep.

Yeah I experimented with Truenas in a VM, it randomly dropped the pool. Do not do this.

Try Zoneedit. I’ve had them for years and barely glanced at them.