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Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 10:22 AM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> <SNIP> |
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>> I was wanting to have a NAS that also puts video on my TV. That way I |
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>> can turn off my puter and still watch TV. It would be as much a media |
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>> system as a NAS. I have a mobo, ram and I think I have a extra video |
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>> card somewhere. I'd need a case, power supply and such. I'd also need |
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>> a place to put all this which is going to be interesting. I'd want |
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>> plenty of hard drive bays tho. I found a fractal 804 case that caught |
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>> my eye. Can't recall all the details tho. |
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>> Still, needs money and right now, I got to many other coals in the |
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>> fire. Plus, I'm trying to figure out this crypttab thing. From what |
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>> I've read, it is for opening encrypted drives during boot up which is |
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>> not really what I want. I can boot and login into my KDE without |
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>> anything encrypted being mounted. Kinda like this new setup really. |
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>> I'll be so glad when fiber internet gets here. I think I'm going with |
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>> the 500Mb/sec plan. Costs about the same as my current 1.5Mb/sec plan. |
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>> lol |
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>> Dale |
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> I believe all of that can be done on TrueNAS, and most likely with |
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> any of the prepackaged boxes like Synology, but I've not do it myself. |
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> Most modern flatscreens can access NAS servers and play video |
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> and or music over the network so the NAS server itself |
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> need not have a GPU. I did put a VGA in both of mine as building |
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> them is easier, but it wasn't strictly necessary. TrueNAS can be |
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> built on a headless machine if you know the IP address. |
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> As for FreeBSD, they have 'jails' which I think are more or less |
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> chroot environments, so you can put whatever MythTV is called |
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> these days in a jail and run it from there. People do that with |
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> DNS, network monitors and all sorts of things. (Assuming |
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> you have enough compute power.) |
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> No need to do any of this now. It's good that you're thinking |
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> about solutions so that when the money comes along you'll |
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> be ready. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Mark |
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When I bought my current TV, I avoided the smart ones. At the time, it |
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was new technology and people were talking about how buggy it was so I |
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bought a regular TV. If I had to buy one today, I'd buy a smart one. |
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They seem to work pretty well now. Nice and stable at least. Still, I |
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check to make sure whatever I buy is based on Linux as its OS. One can |
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usually check the manual and see the copyright notice in the last few |
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pages. It mentions the kernel. If it mentions windoze, I move on. LQ |
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is almost always Linux based. |
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I'm at the point where I know I need to do this. It's just getting |
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there. I even thought about putting the OS on a USB stick. After all, |
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once booted, it won't access the stick very often. I could even load it |
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into memory at boot up and it not even need the stick at all once |
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booted. Like is done with some Gentoo install media. |
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One of these days. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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P. S. New drive seems to be working fine. Now to figure out what to do |
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with old one. :-D |