For META this is a pit.

Don’t use them.
Very easy to pick SMR HDDs by accident.
You don’t want those inside a NAS.

Set it up on my uGreen DXP4800+
The most unpleasant thing was to configure the LED health indicator and learning how it works.

Regarding NAS loudness volume: I can give you some advice as mine is in my bedroom.
Choose quiet drives. I deployed 4x Toshiba N300 15TB He HDDsin RaidZ2
Maybe mod the drive cages: Use something like sticly velcro strips (soft side) on all sides that HDD/caddies touch the caddy and case/chassie.
Move your intensive access times to late night (4am for example) or when you are at work/gone from home.
Use a soft surface. I have placed the NAS on soft foam from packing materials to reduce vibrations.

Happy storing :)

Cooking on Sunday feeds me on Monday. Maybe even Tuesday

Something simple is done on Tuesday/Wednesday
Or something moderate for 2 days
Same for Thursday/Friday

Saturday is usually the one-off day.

We neither have the space nor the want to eat a meal 5x for a week.

You are more or less preaching to the choir

I hope you believe in reincarnation :)

If it’s encrypted how should I know?

Imagine having to back up 50Tb to S3 :p
Not everyone has a symmetric connection.

The tape drive costs more or less 2000€ (without VAT), the tapes cost about 80-100 for a 15tb drive (and compressed capacity doesnt count as the to be backed up data is probably not just a database or text.

Don’t think there are much economic options beside finding the cheapest S3 storage or a secondary backup server.

Companies (e.g. HP, Dell, Lenovo) will still buy PCs. The individual like you and me will be a drop in a bucket as big as the whole ocean.

Isnt some AI bro hoarding a fuckton of CPUs because there arent enough servers to put them into?

One step ahead.

When I traveled to Sri Lanka, one hotel didnt have isolated devices active.

Had some fun with another guest that used the android casting by remote controlling the volume ;)

I’d say it’s almost better to use the mobile data of the domestic SIM or use a travel SIM with unlimited data instead.

Not enough fire.

You basically mean a supply-chain attack?
I mean…Sure that’s a valid concern but on the other hand, Bitwarden is OSS, the client and AFAIK the server components.
So the threat looks to me identical for Bitwarden as it is for Keepass.

But it’s probably easier to infiltrate the actual user system and wait for the unlock of the vault to happen for exfiltratration than just stealing the vault with argon2id salted hashes and trying to crack that open.
It may be of concern for a state/big corp person of interest but you and me? Probably less so.

I’ll continue paying for Bitwarden.
Not of interest having to mess with passsword safekeeping.
Same goes for email.
Yes, I could host the server at home and use an SMTP relay for sending emails from a reputable emailing IP but the email provider I currently use at the price is okay enough for me to not really care. So I don’t :p

FYI as my former comment hasnt federated yet: I delete my comment because I suspected my edits wouldnt go through fast enough for everyone to see.
So i deleted it and reposted as a new comment: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/23665757

Anyway: Could you elaborate what you mean exactly?