Readit NewsLotta haters out there but this is just advanced as I want to get in my home lab; and the racks are just so cool even with their gimmicky front touch panel, it’s just so sexy when all the displays in the rack sync up on their animations. Whoever designed these things really had an eye for design.
From all I've been looking at, looks like it's the most straightforward setup. Fully centrally managed via the gateway, leaves me plenty of options for PoE-powered security cameras and other expansions in the future, can be upgraded on a component basis when desired, and integrates nicely in HomeAssistant. And with all that, not even really more expensive than what seems like much more fiddly alternatives like the TPLink Omada system and others.
But yeah, if Gemini with more context comes with a similar product, it could compete and win the developers.
- Important stuff primarily lives in commercial cloud storage. All of that is also mirrored on the NAS.
- Everything from the NAS SSDs is dumped to the HDDs every 3 days. Both use MergeFS, so if any one drive dies (or both SSDs, or both HDDs), I can replace it and still have a copy of everything.
The entire NAS is also occasionally dumped to an external HDD that's stored at my parents' place. So basically, if the NAS breaks catastrophically, I am at risk of losing some recent stuff that hasn't been dumped there yet, but nothing of actual importance.
In practice this meant: a passively cooled Intel N100 SoC, a Corsair PSU that shuts down its fan under a certain power threshold (iirc 35W-ish), and SSD-only main storage. I did include a system fan (low-RPM 120mm Noctua) that is actively controlled based on various system temps (stays off 99% of the time), and two HDDs that sit in standby spindown and only spin up for snapshot backups once every three days deep at night.
Very happy with this system so far. It houses my data dump, backups for all my systems (replicated as snapshots to the HDDs), hosts HomeAssistant/Z2M, and hosts a local-only Gitea that keeps up-to-date clones of all my Github and Gitlab repos.
Anything I host that's available on the public Internet, I don't do from home - that's all on various VPS' or AWS. To access my local stuff remotely, I can always VPN in to my home network.
Now I have a RWD Model 3 with an LFP pack (SR+/"base model"), and have to use the brakes much more than with the old car (that had an NMC pack and almost never limited regen). Over two years in, brakes seem good as new, hopefully they stay this way.
Also, on EVs with LFP batteries the brakes do get used a bit more, because a full and/or cold pack usually can only take very limited power from regenerative braking. Depending on the implementation in the vehicle, brakes are either applied automatically to still allow for one-pedal-driving (aka. "brake blending", making the difference unnoticeable to the driver), or throttle-pedal regen is simply capped and the driver has to use the brake pedal when they notice that regen power is not sufficient.
To me, this reads like it'll be a good junior and open up a PR with its changes, letting you (the issue author) review and merge. Of course, you can just hit "merge" without looking at the changes, but then it's kinda on you when unreviewed stuff ends up in main.