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I believe the fact that it comes up as a “slot” is positive. SATA m.2 connectors don’t show up under slots, they come under "connector"s with type SATA.

The key doesn’t correspond to capability. It’s about the connector’s physical shape. i.e. which side is the lil notch on. B has a notch on the right, M on the left. B & M have a notch on both sides and therefore fits into either connector, but it is limited to PCIex2/SATA speed (i’d guess this won’t matter to you as pciex2 is around 4gbps even on pci1). It also doesn’t mean the length would fit, that’ll be a number like 2230, 2280 etc.

You’d have to check the manual for the motherboard to see if it specifies, but if it’s labelled m.2 PCIe it should work I think. If it only said SATA then it would not work.

You can try dmidecode --type slot on Linux, it should list them as available and presumably specify the type to be PCI express.

I think ultimately you’ll only know when you try, but these may give you some confidence.

I have the setup, never found a use for it though.

I think there is no comprehensive guide because people have varying opinions on what’s “best”. IMO the “best” for everyone is the way that they understand how things work and are comfortable to manage it, regardless of how good or bad someone else says that is.

My recommendation is to just accept you will not get it right first time, you’ll eventually face the issues and limitations of whatever way you picked and have to either rebuild or adapt.

Personally, I’d say choose a starting path of do you want to learn about the various technologies and have maximum potential (and, problems to solve) or do you just want to get some of the common apps running and don’t care how as long as they run and be limited by what’s available, but with much fewer issues. Path 1 is following the docker/proxmox path and it may take a lot of reading and watching YouTube tutorials before you get somewhere, path 2 is aiming for something like casaOS or similar and probably watching their getting started will get you results faster but if something breaks or is not available, you may get stuck.

Last, pick 1 thing that’s your goal and work on getting that there. There is no right order, but the more popular something is the more resources there will there be. https://selfh.st/apps/ is a great resource for finding things. Jellyfin is actually pretty easy to start with and gives you some good paths forward around it (e.g. start with you manually getting your media in the right place, then you can work on adding other apps that will do it for you). I’d advise to avoid self hosting email, it’s rather difficult.

Once you grasp how things work, it becomes a shopping mall of just add what you want, it’s just climbing that hill at least once that’s hard if you’re not from a tech background.

Thank you, that’s very useful to know.

That’s interesting. OP implied they can’t be disabled but now I see it was specifically hardware vise.

Does the car still complain if the camera is covered when these are disabled?

We got a modern BYD recently as a rental on a holiday that had this, it was really annoying. Anytime anything happened the car beeped, it was near constant different beeps - super distracting. Most of the things could be turned off, but had to be turned off each time the car was started, on a tablet buried in various menus.

The attention thing also wasn’t working great with the driver wearing sunglasses, it’d randomly start complaining. It also complained when the driver would lean forward to get a better view around a corner or anything.

It was a very fancy car, but I’d definitely never choose a car with these features, even though some may probably be useful.

I’d also never trust one of these companies not to change the policy on what they can do with this camera in the future, at which point you’ll have little to no choice about it. Or, to find out they messed up and now anyone can watch you in your car.

I’d go back to the dealership and complain, either ask for a refund or a way to be able to cover the camera, especially if they only disclosed it as you got the car.

It’s a small piece in your observation but I’ve been on the hunt for an android client for jellyfin with downloads that are… usable. Fladder has been so far the only one where this seemed to work okay-ish (it’s still slow, and I noticed it doesn’t detect if the device supports Dolby vision to force transcoding). But still, if your one user is still trying… maybe it helps them a lil.

On 1, would it not work if you created a new bitcoin wallet, then bought bitcoin with monero and used that bitcoin to pay? I understand BTC isn’t anonymous, but if you fund the wallet only with BTC purchased via monero and don’t re-use the wallet it shouldn’t identify you.

On 2, I meant to test if proton mail (or one of the other providers where the only issue is needing another email address) accepts adding a verification email address to the proton account (which in theory passes the human verification check), where the verification email address is from for example disroot, or from one of the anonymous mail providers. Basically just a test if the human verification check can be circumvented with another provider that would do the human verification check or similar, maybe there is a gap in the validation for one of them.

Does that make sense?

Either way, if you need this to be anonymous and also rotate the account with a high frequency like weekly, probably neither of those will remain feasible even if one of them would maybe work once.

Thank you, that makes more sense. Proton has an article on this (https://proton.me/support/human-verification) and it does imply your use of tor will trigger it (as opposed to only requiring captcha).

My only 3 ideas are:

1. Some search results indicate that upgrading to a paid account removes this issue on proton, but it seems the wording for this on the page above was removed. If you’re willing to try spending some money on it you can try upgrading the proton account with crypto (buy bitcoin with monero?) and pay for a month?

2. Try if they accept adding a verification email from an anonymous provider, or another provider which would do this?

3. If you plan on/have the option to go on a holiday check which countries allow buying prepaid SIM cards for cash without ID and pick one up to pass the verification on one of these providers?

I don’t understand your wording of what that limitation is.

My best guess would be that you mean you want to use a custom domain for the email address…?

What do you mean by “do not accept 3rd party registration email”?

Sure, but I’ve only started recently so not sure how it’ll hold up. I’ve managed to get my bank transactions in there and my investments as well, and for a brief period my crypto too. It all needs external integrations though (or you can do it by hand).

It does have tags and rules to automate some categorisation. There are a few people maintaining it but it obviously came with some tech debt too (it was originally developed by a company and called maybe, they open sourced it when they gave up on it).

They’re harder to eat

Even with cash we’re at the mercy of a country, if they fuck up their economy and hyperinflate it, money is gone anyway.

The only way forward is to carry around stuff that has intrinsic universal value. The currency of the future is potatoes, start stocking up.

I’d make the same point as everyone else - choose a distro that suits your needs better - but it seems already made several times.

I’ve used Linux both personally and professionally for a long time but I just don’t want to tinker/break my main desktop. I am currently using bazzite, and while it’s not perfect I’ve found it great in the not breaking department. The immutable part takes some getting used to though. The recent drama around it is annoying though.

I’d be cautious with nix, while it’s reproducible you might end up having to put a lot of effort into making it what you want. If you want that experience then by all means, but it may just frustrate you further if you do it on your main machine.

I don’t use it so I can’t recommend it, but if you’re interested in other options to research there’s a mergerfs+snapraid combo.

I currently pass through my disks to an unraid VM and then mount them through nfs which works (but from the sounds of it probably not a valid option for you, not would I recommend it), but I want to try replacing it with mergerfs at some point.

The thing that has mainly turned me off of zfs is (from what I understand) that you kinda need to plan how you’re going to expand when you set it up. Which really doesn’t work for me with a random collection of disks of varying sizes.

Another note for option 1, since proxmox 8.4 there is virtiofs which would allow you to mount a folder to a VM without having to go through nfs. You may have to mess with selinux in the VM depending on what you do in there, but just fyi it’s a thing.

Does it have deduplication enabled? Afaik that’s the functionality that the high memory footprint is usually quoted.

(Also, was that meant to be 170TB?)

So… you are familiar with the windows 3rd party programs to use, but not the Linux ones?

That would certainly apply the other way around as well, so is that a barrier to entry to windows too then?

I never understood the argument of “if it’s not in the UI you may need to use a command to achieve it and it’s scary”.

On windows, if it’s not in the UI you have to use either a powershell command or update the registry to change it - which are both a very similar experience.

The only difference I actually see in this point is that Linux has a lot more options.