For project ideas, I think most of us start with a problem and learn how to solve it. But without some foundational knowledge, you may struggle to even realize what’s a solvable problem.

You should maybe start with something like Linus Tech Tips “techquickie” content. Look at tutorials for home servers and home labs.

Or just spin around with your eyes closed, and point at a random tech object in your home, then start searching for info on how that works. How you can customize it, fix it, break it, make your own.

Not sure how else to help you jumpstart what many of us have just been naturally doing our whole lives. Like… be curious. That’s the key actually. Curiosity.

Roku really should not sell most of their cheapest options, they’re very bad, while the top of the line Rokus are very solid.

Someone convince them to move to lemmy

I was using HDDs, and I believe it may have been a little less of an issue bc I had Unraid configured to keep the drives spun up (I’ve read the spin up is hard on the drive, not so much the time being spun up)

But I did occasionally have some IOWait issues. Reds plus a NVME cache has resolved all those issues.

WD Green /shrug

I’ve been using all Red Pros since I first built my nas, but it started with a couple of green 2TB that where in there for like 7 years before being replaced (didn’t die yet)

How do you deal with only 1 Ethernet port?

Vlan to managed switch? USB Ethernet adapter?

Also, is this powerful enough for a symmetrical 1gig connection?

Ugh, I want to build an opnsense router but I can’t go spending unnecessarily until I find a job.

Anyone hiring an IT admin and/or software engineer in the Portland area?

Unraid works well for me, everything is in docker containers, and I imagine I could move them elsewhere if needed. But over the past few years that’s not been necessary.

Most reasonable pricing I’ve seen for a family use case.

I think everything I ever learned was one piece of software, one problem at a time.

Choose a platform: proxmox, bare Linux server, Unraid

(Look up comparisons)

Then start looking up install tutorials for different pieces of software.

And just take it like that, one piece at a time.