I wanted a newer car, so I rolled my existing auto loan into the newer vehicles loan. So easy right?
I was upside down on it for years and years. It's so disheartening to drive a vehicle that's falling apart and stranding you everywhere but still owe $10k on it. It was an awful decision that took years of pain but that was my lesson on buying things I can afford.
Pixel pass is the most recent service they've cancelled on me, my movies I bought on Google TV after being moved to YouTube but that service is gone too.
Their assistant devices have slowly gone crazy and barely understand anything and half the features for them have been removed for one reason or another.
Also the transition from the Nest app for my cameras which was amazing to the shitty Google home app which had half the features and didn't work with all my cameras so I had half on nest and half on Google home.
Also their WiFi app is now also in Google home and it has less features than the original stand alone. So it's not all free services, it's things I've paid for and been burned over and over again.
I had a lot of their stuff over the years and it's always great at first until... it's not.
The DAS seems limiting because it's USB. I'm limited on speed, and configuration. It works fine for what it is but it's basically just a giant USB drive.
I purchased the TR004 because it was cheap and I needed storage. I don't know what I would have done differently but I feel as though I'm limited by this device instead of enhanced.
A normal HBA/Controller with attached drives in a server would be my ideal I guess. Not possible at this time so I'm working with what I have!
I did that with this giant server I have, but I hate running that thing. This computer I'm using now is honestly a pretty small, proprietary computer and it has no extra headers, it's pretty packed inside. I will be testing unraid after i'm done with OMV. Thanks for your help and suggestions.
Having a normal HBA would have made my choices a lot easier. Dealing with the DAS complicated it but everyone was pretty helpeful so I think I'm on the right track now.
"why fix what isn't broken?" are words to live by and if I were a smarter man I'd listen.
I'm joking, kind of, I think we all have to fight off that "grass is always greener on the other side" type of thinking because my life would be better if i just had...or if i just did...or if i only changed...and then i'm back on selfhosted asking for advice again.
The data import will be a challenge all on it's own. I'll end up probably splitting the data onto a drobo nas and some 4tb hdd's I have laying around to give myself some redundancy. Bring the DAS online, format it with the new file format whatever that may be, and reimport the data. PITA but doable.
It's part of the reason I'm asking because as my data grows, this import process is going to be the most difficult part so I'd like to lock something in for a while.
I am interested in home assistant too so your experience is valuable. Thanks!
Thanks for that! I am more limited by the USB DAS and it sounds like that eliminates TrueNAS for now. I care about my data but I have a drobo too I use for a second backup and also really important stuff is also in the cloud. I’ll finish testing with OMV and then use the trial for unraid. Even if it’s just the serial number, having a USB sticking out the back seems weird, this motherboard doesn’t have a way for me to add an internal USB port.
Your question really made me laugh because I was indeed rambling but the overall point was - I bought Google products, they've dismantled and changed things to make it less useful than it was or they have cancelled the product/program entirely. So I'm not buying their products anymore. It's my opinion but it's my money and I'm going to choose to spend it elsewhere.
Hope that clears it up.
I was all in for years and each product I've been burned, this is the last straw for me. As each thing I own fails or needs replacing, it won't be Google.
I am done, I looked past a lot of faults because of the overall capabilities of the ecosystem they created and they've slowly dismantled it and changed and tweaked everything to be annoying to use.
It's like they intentionally pick the best features, remove them and try to gaslight me into thinking it's better now.
I'm just done with them.
It doesn't have to be some privacy focused security super encrypted email service if that doesn't fit your use case. Use outlook.com, fastmail, proton, try one out for just shopping accounts that you check for orders and shipping etc. I get that we should have privacy and outlook isn't any better than gmail but I'm just not an all or nothing kinda person. If you're cool with what it offers and what it takes, then try it out.
Note that I use proton, paid member for 4 years and going. Happy with service. My point is that you need to pick the right tool for the job.
My choices are more about not having everything on Google (or being let down yet again) than my fear of google knowing I emailed my accountant two months ago or that I bought a dog poop scooper from Amazon.
Unless there are some circumstances that switching will protect her then no. My opinion of course. I learned a long time ago that nontechnical people, young or old, need to value and want to use the tools or it will only cause frustration and less trust in your opinion on other things that may be more critical.
You can explain why something is better or worse but let them make their own choice without being pushed or they won't be invested in the change.