Same.

Allow me to introduce you to The Feederz.

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Some good options here. I’m a fan of TrueNAS from iX Systems. Very easy to build your own but I’ll admit my last box I just bought their mini and put in my own disks.

I’d avoid QNAP although they’ll do the job.

This is a bit bogus. I just retired a 2012 iMac because I needed a new version of macOS to match my other devices. The only thing I ever did to the iMac was replace the original fusion driver with a SATA SSD (Samsung). It ran faster - boot times well under 10 seconds from the Apple chime.

Replace the HDD with an SSD . Update it to the latest macOS that hardware supports and it will be fine for web, email, basic office duty stuff, if you are sticking to Apple. I could also Bootcamp and run four instances of EVE Online with no issues.

There are a bunch of other things you can do with it outside of macOS but it really is getting up there in age.

Almost zero benefit. I finally started to just use the Apple Upgrade Program and effectively look at the phone as a rental. We get a credit from work to use a device as BYOD so it ultimately is nice to simply have a new phone all the time.

Eight lenses? I’m in.

While I sometimes get annoyed with Apple and the App Store policies, I also view this as a differentiator. It’s arguably more secure. It’s a trade off I can live with.

It will be interesting to see how Apple plays out the third party store.

This is not going to be popular but Apple’s walled garden is why I am a customer. The fact that they don’t carry decades of baggage into to their ecosystem is a benefit. Did I hate that I had to leave a perfectly fine 2012 iMac because no more updates and missing features? Sure, but I got a decade out of one computer.

They control the hardware and software in a tightly integrated manner that works great. People who complain about this not being open… you’ve got other options. To me, it’s a product differentiator.

Before someone says I’m not capable of using a “real” OS, I ended up here in 2007 due to OSX with its *nix backend. I started time sharing on a VAX8800, built a career on Sun stuff, jumped to Linux in 1994 doing development (submitted driver updates, FAQs and more). I’ve never looked back and I’m certain I am as efficient and productive as I can be. I use Linux and Windows as well but for different things.

ngl, I hope they figure out more malicious compliance to make the Reddit management looks like fools before nuking it from orbit.

A good reason to get one is for endless hot water. We had kids in sports and on Sunday night everyone could shower and run the clothes washer. Now they are out of the house it doesn’t make much sense. We also live in a drought state so hour long showers aren’t an option.

Another reason is space. We reclaimed the water tank space and put in a mud sink.

Reasons to stick with a traditional tank:

The tank can act as a water supply, if you need it.

The upfront costs to add upgrade the gas line and venting are steep.

But the underlying technology has not changed much, if at all. The Tesla battery is nothing more than what is a bunch of Li-Ion battery cells wired together.

I’ll give it a shot. Running self hosted or a VPS isn’t an issue. Thanks.

Any idea on what the monthly cost is going to run?