I think they should consider the word “wages” instead.

Let’s be honest, this is compensation for skilled labour.

Yeah, that was me a couple years ago… I’d read some blogs, watched some yoochoobz and had data going from my NAS to Backblaze… encrypted…so… ok… is it restorable? No idea.

I think the main thing is for you to try doing a test restore of your data before you need to (and you already have a local backup anyway if your test goes wrong)

That will give you a better understanding of the whole process - they might be 100% reliable in storing data which is totally unusable by you because you’ve lost your decryption key, weren’t backing it up correctly, etc (for example).

Yeah, good summary - I’m not using the latest version, but LiveTV channel changing still takes a second (on a dual tuner machine), but, like you said, we rarely watch LiveTV now and if we do, we’re not really channel hopping either.

How well doea the NUC perform as a Frontend? I have a small TV in a spare room which could benefit from a separate Frontend…

I think Myth can record from the homerun boxes?

I’m lucky the OTA scheduling works well enough for me - only issue is that I can only see a few days ahead.

Ah, ok, you’re a bit of a contributor… I helped with a couple of patches and loads of wiki edits (that needed much love a few years ago)

TVDb is still hit & miss, but much better than it used to be.

And yeah, Myth’s not ideal for external streaming…

Yeah, I was kinda thinking about a combined Myth Backend / *arr box and then see whether Myth Frontend or Jellyfin worked “better” (for my use case)… just need a spare weekend to try it all out.

Not heard of Tablo… I’ll take a look

Yeah, Myth’s built-in internet browser is pretty dire - I have a 2nd virtual desktop to open a browser if I want to watch something via the internet, but I don’t bother with Netflix, etc…

No. Maybe it is where you’re located, but for me it’s fine.

Movies come from the high seas, so I’m not too worried about them, but there’s some good stuff on terestrial TV definitely

Maybe not a docker solution, but you could throw pfSense into a VM and do all that from there

I use it (as it’s intended) as my firewall, but I used to use these as general purpose network security VMs in the past (just because I know the product well)

So for you: no firewall rules, just setup DNS with pfBlocker (for the advert blocking) and setup the VPN as required…

Just an idea…

I’d also split #2 further:

2a: Using a domestic DSL router and Synology NAS to run everything 2b: Has a Raspberry Pi (or 6) maybe a 2nd repurposed old PC and possibly an unmanaged switch 2c: Full height 19" rack, UPS, firewalls, managed switches, full virtualisation with SAN, redundancy and 100Gb full fibre internet

I’m somewhere between 2b and 2c

Ok, thanks… Good to know for a rainy day.

Not heard of RouterOS before … <quick search> I didn’t realise jad released firmware that would run in a normal VM… don’t suppose you have anything to compare it to pfSense?

Wow. I use jtx board and never tried the Kanban view … man, I didn’t even know it did that! Thanks!

So, do I need a GPU to use facial rec. with this?

I have a NAS with a low powered CPU, but I don’t care if it takes weeks to analyse - we don’t take loads of photos.

I’ve been here since before dial-up. I knew Janet in the early days 😉

Yeah, I have trail sense installed - but everytime I’m out and about I just can’t work out how to use the myriad functions it has (like how high something is, etc)…

I really ought to RTFM and try to use it properly

Ah, ok, so I can export my OsmAnd paths, import into this and then remind myself of where I went on holiday / almost fell of a cliff / got lost driving / etc ?

I have a bunch of tracks I’ve saved over the years… hmm… maybe this is what I should be using