Ok. Thanks for the extended perspective.

Just today I tried to get some info from graphics stored on a lemmy server and found them to be highly anonymized. I’m gonna guess you have to engage with a potential scammer in order for them to extract data, and just viewing the message gives them nothing. Lemmy probly has security flaws, but seems well designed as far as I’ve looked.

Ya, I getcha that if its harassment, its really weird harassment. But if its harassment of a real person out there, I certainly don’t want to be part of it. I haven’t been on lemmy very long. I’ve already tangled with one batshit crazy person. I’m fully willing to believe that more exist.

Ok. More internet. Now I just hope Nicole is ok. Fuk. Thx.

Ok, this is a shitpost community. I should not expect a real answer here. But I’m gonna float this question and see what people say.

This person has (of course) spammed me multiple times from apparently (just?) 2 different accounts now. nicole9@l.henlo.fi bogymanstout@quokk.au

Ok. So its spam. I block it. But what on earth is going on? This doesn’t seem to make sense. I assume somebody has actually tried to talk to this Nicole person. How did that go?

Proxmox is Debian, so much of your ideas could translate directly across. That said, I try to mod the PVE server as liitle as possible.

Proxmox makes it so easy to spin up yet another VM or LCX to handle services with its core offerings. Also google “proxmox helper scripts” to find tteck’s additional stash of ready-made LCX.

Boy. You asked about Proxmox. Nobody said anything.

How does Proxmox make it easier? Have you used it? All sorts of ways. Like, its a full virtual infrastructure management system instead of just an OS. Proxmox loves ZFS. It does many of the things you’ve mentioned here.

Proxmox does have its own backup system that can work with an NFS target or with their smart dedupe storage and replication server product. https://www.proxmox.com/en/products/proxmox-backup-server/overview

You’ve got some pretty advanced ideas and perhaps have already moved beyond the Proxmox question. But if you are curious and haven’t used it, spin up a server and give it a whirl.

Do it. Jump in. Just start with whatever you can assemble.
It’s a great way to keep your room warm.

I don’t know about the Ubuntu LCX. I don’t container much.

I’d do this with a virtual machine and TrueNAS. Those are just the tools I like to use. The TrueNAS Scale ISO will install qemu-guest-agent, so you don’t need to worry about drivers. Make sure to build it with Virtio SCSI Single disk controllers. Use one 50gb OS disk for the install. Add huge data disk(s) after the install.
Promox Disk options … SSD emulation, Discard, IO Thread, No cache … and I use Write Back (unsafe). Use the Virtio NIC.

And try it again. Hopefully faster this time.