I use backrest. It’s incredibly powerful, but has a steep learning curve. A way simpler (not as powerful) alternative is Timeshift. Your distro/DE also probably has a backup app.

I would suggest you start to play around with whatever machine you have in hand. Later on you can migrante to a more serious solution. If you want to first play on a VPS, Hertzner’s are like 4€/month

As for utilities, you could start with (in suggested order over my perceived usefulnes/coolnes/difficulty) Immich, videogame server, Jellyfin, Wireguard, Jupyter server (if you code Python), backrest.

When you want to scale up and migrate into a more “serious” setup, it depends on that you want and your budget. Still, I recommend a multi-disk bay PC (NAS), and go for a dedicated Linux distro (I’m using TrueNAS; not perfect, but overall a very good experience).

Immich has a built-in backup solution, iirc. Still, I would use a different one, so it can easily be used over non-Immich related stuff.

but that one is 500 with no RAM at all, which is quite hefty.

I got mine open box off from eBay. You could search in a similar way. I hunted for a few days, with terms like “NAS”, “N100”, “N150”, “MiniPC”, “4 Bay”, etc.

though I’m not quite sure what to pick best, motherboard being the hardest one.

I’m not sure on this, so take it with a grain of salt, but I think non-NAS oriented mothebaords aren’t optimized for low energy consumption, specially on idle.

Best of luck!

I can’t say this is a good advice by itself; this is simply my setup as I was in your position just 1 month ago, maybe this gives you more ideas.

I recently bought an 16 GB non-ECC DDR5 (which is unnecessary, DDR4 works just fine) open-box 4-disk bay TerraMaster as my main server for the equivalent of around €400, thinking that in a distant future I can buy a different rack just for disks. This model has an Intel N150, which has the H.265 codec, which should handle the transcoding in your Plex instance (which, IMO, you should consider moving to Jellyfin instead in the new computer you end up getting). The 4-disk bay (there are some models with more bays) allows you to get some disks now and then fill up the bays later on if you want to. Note: I just realized this almost reads like a Terramaster ad, that’s not my goal; you can search for similar options from other fabricants.

As for the OS, I insist in recommending you TrueNAS, since it’s Debian-based, since it’s not like Proxmox where everything has to be VM, it’s simply Debian with a nice UI for spinning up Docker instances + disk/snapshot/backups management, all of which are optional: you can easily mount your disk pool and setup them up as a ZRAID (data redundancy in case of disk failure), stripe (no data redundancy), etc., organize everything in easy to use folders, schedule different snapshot schedules for different folders, etc. You can also easily mount Docker containers, either through the “app store” (a selection of Docker containers wrapped in a nice UI for configuration) or manually with docker-compose.yml files. IMO, you lose little, but gain a lot with the OS being already configured for a lot of the stuff you want to do, and the easy to use Web UI.

I went for an .org and the same happened to me. After digging, Porkbun says is an automated flag of suspicious account, irrelevant to the TLD.

They sell a vulnerability discovery program. IMO, they did this dubious responsable disclousure to get the extra marketing.

They give you the poison to sell you the cure.

Italy’s DT already cried foul that South America has 6 slots while they had to go to the wildcard. They would take the free pass 100%, IMO.

Page 6 clarifies this also includes executions from oficial sources. Given the downward trend of percentage of officially admitted executions vs total, you could extrapolate the data and conclude it should be more or less correct, or at least don’t have a major error.

Also, keep in mind, the report is from 2025, whole the complete internet shutdown is 2026.

I’m not saying they report is 100% correct. I’m not an expert in the topic, and only gave it a quick overview, but I’m surprised at your quick dismissal of it. You couldn’t spend 2 minutes to read the BBC article with the source link, but did spend enough time to read and negate the actual report, or at least their methodology?

Since they are at war, doesn’t this classify as the use of a chemical weapon? Israel signed but not ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Obvioisly, this is irrelevant, they wouldn’t care either way.

Some thought I had the other day :LLM is supposed to make us more productive, say by 20%. Have you won a 20% pay rise since you adopted it? I haven’t

but choose to query DNS services instead—especially in scripts.

Why? What advantages do you get?

A simpler and easy to memorize alternative:

curl ifconfig.me

Just yesterday I found this video talking about this very topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MucGkPUMjNo

I see. Thanks for the explanation.

If you don’t mind me asking, why you got money waiting for you? I’m not from US, so I don’t underestand this concept

But that’s my point, everything feels so restrictive. Why is doing something harmless that you want and enjoy doing seen in such a negative way.

What a perfect example of how sexuality is suppressed, controlled

You reminded me of a post I saw in r/catholicism. OP wanted to stop masturbating, but wasn’t able to overcome the urge and felt very bad about it, knowing it was wrong, and was asking advice. All the comments were in the line of “Just trust and submit to Jesus and he’ll help you”.

WTF… I felt bad for OP and other people in a situation like that.

The same thing with people cheering on Maduro’s capture. People don’t care this is not a selfless act, they simply hope things finally start to get better.