For over 10 years I use #linux exclusively, the past few years I managed without full reinstallations, just upgrading fedora. I started at #fedora 37.

The urge to get rid of #bigtech came up again #truenas makes it easy!

Cancelled my youtube subscription. Now I either use #peertube or tubearchivist + #jellyfin.

I cancelled my office subscription, took all my files from the cloud and put it into #nextcloud

#signal for whatsapp
#mastodon for all forms of social media.
#pixelfed for instagram

I do not think I like the direction #TrueNAS is going with its increasingly corporatified product. What do people like for alternatives?

Ideally installable on an existing box running TrueNAS 13.x (still FreeBSD-based) without a full backup and restore; having said that, I am not a fan of ZFS and would consider a switch to something less clever to be worth the hassle.

Ability to stack local apps (particularly Home Assistant) on top is desirable but not a must-have.

Blogged how I converted my #TrueNAS Core 13.3 to plain #FreeBSD 15 + #Sylve while keeping all the drives and data intact.

https://blog.klop.ws/2026/03/migrate-truenas-core-to-sylve.html

#homelab gurus! I am considering replacing our old #Synology DS1525 with a #TrueNAS, mostly because I want to run #Immich, #Paperlessngx, and #jellyfin on it without having to deal with Syno's out-of-date #Docker implementation.

If you're running TrueNAS, two questions:

1) how hard was it to get automated backups of #Windows and #Linux systems set up? I do appreciate Syno's built-in backup tools.

2) how bad an idea would it be to run these compute loads on the NAS vs a separate compute node? We are *not* heavy users - just the two of us and we're pretty casual about home use, so it feels like loads would be pretty minimal...

Any thoughts and suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

I’ve recently discovered Open Archiver in a (German) YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXd2X7Ln_Vk), which allows you to archive your emails from various different email providers. It seems to be still a very new project, but it looks promising to me. And it’s completely open source.

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Built a 12 bay box for TrueNAS. Having not built a machine in decades, I was a little worried, but first shot, here we are! Time to configure and see about adding my first drive!

#homelab #truenas #selfhost