I mean anyone can rent a server in Europe and install OpenVPN themselves. Hell, it doesn't even need to open OpenVPN, Wireguard works just as well and is basically undetectable.
Eat shit, UK government, for real. Idiots think that by speaking the same language as US fascists they can have similarly dumb ideas.
Safety? In the wild? I mean, a beaver dam doesn't need safety features because a sane person doesn't expect it to be safe to interact with a beaver dam.
Longevity, not sure, but at least it can be replaced by humans if it breaks at a later date.
I also love squeaky clean, ad-less internet. In this timeline, sadly, I get to enjoy both, while only half of that would be enough for me.
Blessed uBlock.
Stable coins on the rise, buy while they are cheap!
Not related, but did you ever use k9s? Quite nifty CLI tool to control Kube, albeit not on a very advanced level, it helped me a lot to not get drowned in Kube commands.
With 4, you are correct, I went from top of my head back what we learned in high school 15 or so years ago. 5 is still better than nothing if you don't have the resources to get one more drive for 6. Of course, the best is completely mirroring all stuff to a separate geo location.
It all boils down to willingness of spending money for more durability.
I've edited my comment to scratch R4. But R5 is still great for smaller arrays, and it is possible to, for example, have RAID 5 for movies, and RAID 6 for photos.
There are also combinations of RAID levels, like aforementioned 10. There is a nice comparison table with apparent drive requirements and fault tolerance on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels
You'll have to find some kind of balance, ad it js a game of chance. You are always limited by number of slots in your server and current largest drive size. Then you are trying to balance price, speed, and durability.
For exampl, let's say maximum amount of drives is 10, and maximum manufactured size is 50 TB. You probably don't need 500 TB of storage that is in no way durable (if a drive dies, all the data on it is lost) and on a single server.
Death of drives is almost certain, two drives dying at the same time is quite low, so something like RAID 4, 5, 6, or 10 is a great start. Depends on how much storage you want, and then partition it accordingly. If you want 20 TB, you can do 4x 8TB in RAID 5, which yields 3x 8TB (=24) of effective storage.
Adding new drives is easy, and you are are always wasting just one drive. Then it depends if you want to sacrifice more space for more durability and switch to RAID 6 later on.
If you want even more storage, you can buy a micro server like ODROID H4+ and use it as network connected storage.
I mean, it is not unusual for uni C professors using 8 spaces be brilliant madmans 🤣
Czech Technical University in Prague.
Probably the same maniac using 8 spaces for indentation in C.
Yes, my uni professor used that, and he was indeed a maniac, a brilliant one.
I've setup Hauk for my dad to broadcast his location while delivering. It is only activated when he activates it, but it also works if you want to share location with a specific group of people. It has an app and a website, and can be password protected. It also records history and speed, but history can be turned off.
It is not very robust or particularly well coded, but it is a nice little FOSS app that works, but has to be self hosted.