I’m the same as you - I had experience with mdadm, LVM, LUKS, and ext4, but no experience with ZFS. I still don’t know a lot about ZFS, but Unraid set it up for me, and I can always Googl4/DuckDuckGo any issues I encounter.

From what I can see bit rot is not a huge problems for home users

The thing is that it’s likely that lots of people are affected by bitrot and just don’t know it, since there’s no way to detect it without using checksums. People don’t know that their files have succumbed to bitrot until they try to use them and realise they’re corrupted.

Instead of 4 x 6TB drives, consider 2 x 14TB or even 2 x 20TB in a ZFS mirror. Buy the biggest drives you can afford that have reasonable pricing. When I was buying drives two years ago, 16 - 20GB was the sweet spot for price per GB.

Make sure you use NAS drives. Western Digital has had several controversies so I usually go for Seagate Exos instead.

You could use an OS like Unraid that handles ZFS for you. You don’t really need to know how ZFS works if you use Unraid since it’s all set up through the web UI. You can always search for how to do things if needed :)

ZFS has bitrot protection which is very useful for important files. Whenever you save a file, it computes a checksum for that file and stores it in the file table. When you read a file, it can detect if that file is corrupted on the drive it’s reading from (the checksum won’t match) and it’ll silently / automatically repair it using data from a different drive.

AFAIK none of the other file systems support this. You need to use ZFS RAID rather than mdadm RAID for it to work.

They already factored in some amount of tariffs into the US price. It’s not really that it’s cheaper in Japan, but rather it’s more expensive in the USA. It’s also US$65 cheaper in Australia, for example, and even cheaper in the UK.

(keep in mind that advertised prices in Australia and the UK include tax, so you need to subtract the tax to compare with US prices)

The tariffs are just a lot higher than everyone expected. Nintendo were probably preparing for a 20% tariff, not a 54% one.

Maybe! I’m sure there’s loopholes of some sort.

This is a rare case where a piece of consumer electronics is going to be quite a bit cheaper in Australia compared to the USA! Usually stuff costs more in Australia.

The Switch is currently US$450 and will probably go up with tariffs. Meanwhile, it’s listed as AU$700 in Australia, which is AU$630 before tax (all advertised prices include tax), which is US$385.

I imagine this is going to happen for a lot of devices. I’m an Aussie living in the USA and I never thought I’d see the day when buying stuff in Australia would be cheaper. Australia has better consumer protection too, around things like repairs/refunds due to major issues even outside the warranty period.

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Absolutely. The console is manufactured in Vietnam, which now has a 46% tariff. I really doubt that Nintendo’s profit margin is high enough to allow them to just eat that cost.

It’s cheaper in Australia. It’s AU$700 which is US$427 at the moment, and Australian prices always includes tax. If you exclude tax, it’s US$385.

There’s no reason your media server needs to be directly exposed to the public internet. Use Tailscale. Get everyone that uses it to sign up for a Tailscale account, and add them all to your Tailnet.

Tailscale will perform better than a Cloudflare tunnel because it’s a direct connection between the two peers, whereas Cloudflare tunnels route through Cloudflare.

Tailscale does have relay servers, but they’re only used in very rare cases, if both peers have very strict firewalls. Almost always, the connection between two peers over Tailscale is a direct connection, so there’s no extra latency (other than some small overhead for the encryption)

You could use Wireguard and manually configure it to be in a mesh config, but Tailscale makes it so much easier. I’m a big fan of their product.

But for there to be used cars, there needs to be new cars… How do the people that buy new cars pay for them?

I loved the explosion sound, and the “oh no” when you click the undo button. I have the Windows versions of KidPix on CD somewhere.

I don’t see any mention of torrents in the article?

Oh yeah, there’ll be some overhead if you’re running Wireguard on a router. Hitting your router’s public IP won’t go out to the internet though - the router will recognize that it’s its IP.

It’s common to run Wireguard on every computer/phone/tablet/etc where possible rather than just on the router, since this takes advantage of its peer-to-peer nature. For home use, that’s how it was originally designed to be used. Tailscale makes it a lot easier to configure it this way though - it’s a bit of work for vanilla Wireguard. Tailscale does support “subnet routers” if you have any devices that you want to access over the VPN that can’t run Tailscale.

My point is that since the VPN uses a different subnet, it’s fine to keep it connected even at home. It’ll only use the VPN if you access the server’s VPN IP, not its regular IP.

In any case, Tailscale and Wireguard are peer-to-peer, so the connection over the VPN is still directly to the server and there’s no real disadvantage of using the VPN IP on your local network.

Yeah, this. Plus if you leave it connected, you can use the VPN IPs while at home instead of having to use a different IP when at home vs when out (or deal with split horizon DNS)

Headscale is a replacement for the coordination servers, which are only used to distribute configs and help nodes find each other. It won’t change client-side behaviour.

I did this and it still seems to randomly disconnect.

If you have a separate subnet for it, then why do you only want it to be connected when you’re not on home wifi? You can just leave it connected all the time since it won’t interfere with accessing anything outside that subnet.

One of the main benefits of Wireguard (and Tailscale) is that it’s peer-to-peer rather than client-server. You can use the VPN IPs at home too, and it’ll add barely any overhead.

(leaving it connected is assuming you’re not routing all your traffic through one of the peers)

conditional Auto-Connect. If not on home wifi, connect to the tunnel.

You don’t need this with Tailscale since it uses a separate IP range for the tunnel.

Edit: Tailscale (and Wireguard) are peer-to-peer rather than client-server, so there’s no harm leaving it connected all the time, and hitting the VPN IPs while at home will just go over your local network.

The one thing you probably wouldn’t do at home is use an exit node, unless you want all your traffic to go through another node on the Tailnet.