If you want to just use it exclusively as a Nas, then why not truenas?
I have a unRAID server but the nas part is nowhere as good as truenas (slower, worse ad integration)
Main issue with virtualization is the bootable USB with the serial number that's used as DRM
Also the problem of the algorithm that thinks it knows what you like to see instead of showing your subscriptions
"Six months ago you did a single search of a walkthrough for a Mario 64 level, so here is a feed filled with only Mario 64 speedruns"
I'm always wary of clicking a YouTube link scared it would poison the feed.
Newpipe solved this
why not directly type diskpart clean in an admin command line, at least the computer wouldn't be infected with chinese malware
imho between the two options, the more ethical is to pirate rather than supporting a shady key reseller. Anyway microsoft gets the exact same amount of money either if you purchase a stolen key from msdn or you install a pirated copy activated via mas
i'm always amused by the reaction of my friends when i tell them that office costs $10 per month. They are all always "whaaaaat?? This POS is this expensive??"
i came across a guide on rentry that said how to permanently activate office 365 downloading from official microsoft servers
don't have the link
intel gpu = any integrated graphics from any intel cpu made in the last 8 years. This includes those crusty $10 celerons, don't need a dedicated intel arc gpu (unless you're streaming to dozens users at the same time)
detail of supported formats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video
nvme for videos seems expensive for nothing, unless you are serving 4k videos over a 10gbit connection to multiple users
Owncloud infinite scale is a rewrite of owncloud(=nextcloud) in go, it supports local, nfs and S3 mounts. Change the smb share to nfs and it might fit you
Disadvantages are:
Bought two and one of those died within 72 hours.
It was really weird, first it became read-only, then it zeroed by itself, but it still was read-only, no program was able to write on it, even aban (dban is dead)
Now the replacement has more than 2 years but i downgraded it in a low activity server
I'm also using that drive but it likes to stay toasty, it's always in a 60-65° C range even with a low activity
I don't really like that. Bought an heatsink and it improved a bit
I remember fifteen years ago I wanted to pirate new super Mario bros for Wii but Nintendo hired a lot of bad peers on eMule, it was impossible to download it. It would download it super fast thanks to the hundreds of fake peers that would upload garbage data, but then when completed it would check it and fall back to 0.2% completed. Super frustrating.
In the end I just gave up because I hate and suck at platformers, why would I ever pirate something that I would never play, but at the time in the forums someone said that with IP address filters it was possible to complete the downloads, by blacklisting all the commercial ip address space and allowing only residential (or maybe they were just living in the right spot, at the time in select cities in my country there was an ISP that ran a fiber optic MAN - metropolitan area network, and it was awesome for piracy, as they didn't block the smb V1 protocol between customers so there were peers that shared gold mines)