Accidental Tech Podcast684: It’s Not What Young People Do
https://atp.fm/684
WWDC 2026 hopes, the state of passkeys, more on podcast transcripts, and how businesses manage fleets of Macs.
charlesesmith@atpfm Mostly for @caseyliss – you know how everyone who uses Home Assistant is like "that's too hard" before they inevitably join the ~~cult~~ community and then won't shut up about how great it is? 👋
This is a post about unRAID. Run docker containers, VMs, and manage a RAID array all in a way that's barely more difficult than the commercial stuff like Synology. VPNs or tailscale? You got it. Replace Dropbox/SynDrive? Nextcloud is like 3 clicks.
@atpfm @caseyliss It’ll support basically any disk your hardware does and it runs on anything from a potato to enterprise servers. I spent $300 on ebay hardware (not including disks) more than *12* years ago that has been running unraid for the last 6 or so and survived multiple disk failures without data loss, and the only downtime is for power outages
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@charlesesmith @atpfm @caseyliss
The general loop of Home Ass for me has been as follows:
- Be frustrated/flabbergasted by the dizzying and confusing array of options
- FAFO until you get stuff to work
- Loosely get the hang of it (and spend at least 4 straight hours getting gud with it)
- Set it the way you want
- <Months/years pass>
- You log back in and need to add a new device
- Repeat step 1