Neat had not heard of this thanks for sharing. Sounds like its much the same safe for free but maybe not as easy to mix and match drives. I had a bunch of random ones leftover from this and that.
That being said if I ever have money for a full build I’ll probably try TrueNAS.
Love my Unraid tons of built in features that make it easy to use as a home server. Not that you can’t manually do everything yourself without it but it makes things a whole lot simpler. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with wanting to save time and effort if one wants.
For example they have an app store for docker containers. But what if they are missing something? Oh you can still just write and run yaml and it’ll work just fine.
Genuinely curious what would people recommend for a home server that is less of a do it all yourself processes and more of a do some of it yourself processes.
Not quite the correct application but linkwarden would work. Stores all your links but also backs everything up via html, plain text, and pdf. You can categorize content and tag content. Then there are filter and search tools.
You can just give it PDFs and it will import them over as well. Only saves them as a pdf but still would work.
I’m guessing this is not the best approach but wanted to give you options.
How difficult it is has a lot of variance. Unifi make it easy to get up and going for example.
Unifi Network, make network, content filtering: family, save. Make WiFi, assign to network, save. Then you can just never give you kids access to the default network. Or you can blacklist their devices. If you want to get more advanced firewall rules are fairly easy to add as well.