If it didn’t give you problems, go for it. I’ve run it for years and never had issues either.

Keep using the NAS as long as it keeps being useful. Just for moving some services off onto something else, it sounds like you could just get a low power minipc of some sort and run your services there. An N100 or AMD APU would work just fine for Plex (transcoding on Intel may be a bit better).

If you’d rather go the extra mile and build a larger machine with a disk array, you don’t need anything super wild for the CPU or memory based on the services you’ve listed.

J U I C E

Home Assistant for family members

This

It’s sad we’ve come to this because nobody can afford an actual home.

I have some thoughts on this, but do want to echo what one other poster said about bulk buying ingredients. If you’re in the US, Costco accepts EBT at all stores, and I believe you don’t need a membership. I would also look online to find any and all local food assistance programs to help augment what you will have available to have available, because some rice and beans could absolutely change your life with some potatoes.

For recipes:

• Potato soup/chowder (good storage)
• Korean stews if you can get your hands on a big bag of Korean red pepper powder one time that lasts years, usually
• Scalloped potatoes
• Mashed potatoes (good storage)
• Kenji’s Crispiest Potatoes Ever
• Real Slow Baked Potatoes (1+ hour in the oven, no foil) though this doesn’t store well
• Broth and potatoes (some people try to rebrand as Melting Potatoes
• Oven Baked Fries

Some of these may need more ingredients, like a base broth, but most should be pretty minimal. I have all kinds of food buying and providing hacks if you need more tips, or mention a general area of where you’re at. Someone else may also know of other programs you can take advantage of.

You’re asking for a lot of different things that don’t align, so instead of trying to guess what you need, let me just throw a few things out there:

• if you want transcoding that isn’t constantly tied to GPU, you want an AMD chip of some sort. If you’re trying to be efficient, and APU model.
• you probably want to just merge all your data into a single disk array. Running multiple on one system is pointless and inefficient.
• separate your CPU needs from storage. Like you said, maybe you just need an ultra low power NAS, and then different machine to handle compute.
• skip SSD for any network storage. Yes it’s more power efficient, but if you’re talking bulk storage, you’re wasting resources for smaller volumes where it won’t matter of transferred over the network. SSD is good for local-only for the most part.

The issue is more likely to be your port selection and UDP being discarded on networks with captive portals that generally only allow certain ports and traffic. Try using some other common UDP service ports like 53/DNS if not already in use, or maybe 5060/SIP, or even other common VPN ports.

Unless they’re running L7 hardware in the hotels, I doubt they’re doing any kind of packet inspection.

It’s more important to get that dmesg output AFTER an event happens, but before a reboot. What you’re running doesn’t matter much unless you have live metrics of their behavior or resources.

There isn’t one.

Stick to the best brands out there that have been benchmarked.

No such thing for dumplings.

Need logs to be able to tell you much. Get some output from dmesg after it happens, but before a reboot. Syslogs couldn’t hurt. Maybe setting up a metrics exporter to another machine could give you a peek into what is happening with resources.

Also give some details about OS and what you’re running on it.

Didn’t realize we all were now incapable of looking out the window. That seems like something an absolutely incapable person would do because they’re way too lazy.

IPFS is like a dead Multiplayer game, or an Onion network. Check it out.

Yes, English is not my first language

Lol. You checked on IPFS lately? Different times. Different world.

Tell me what I’m misunderstanding here.

Lot of good takes here, but let me explain a few not covered coming from working in a Michelin starred kitchen:

• Uncovered means you’re retaining moisture. Simple as that
• You should ever simmer anything uncovered unless you mean to remove moisture
• Of you want to keep flavors INSIDE the pot, do that before deglazing. Bloom aromatics and the heavier flavors, including spices.
• If you ever hear a recipe telling you to cover a lot AFTER the boiling period has happened, it’s a bullshit internet recipe of nonsense.

*but relies on IPFS.

Useless.