Its creepy as hell when you are having a conversation with your SO in the car about [insert random products here], and then in about a hour when you open your phones or laptops at home you are bombarded with ads for said product's.
This happeneds all the time. Try talking about getting a new top load washing machine and mention it three times within ten minutes. Or try talking about getting a new lawnmower, but the trick is to say it three times within ten minutes or so.
Its like the planet is trying to heal it's self by making it harder for use to travel and burn fossil fuels.
Comes down to personal preferences really. Personally I have been running truenas since the freebsd days and its always been on bare metal. There would be no reason you could not virtualize it, and I have seen it done.
I do run a pfsense virtualized on my proxmox VM machine. It runs great once I figured out all the hardware pass through settings. I do the same with GPU pass through for a retro gaming machine on the same proxmox machine.
The only thing I dont like is that when you reboot your proxmox machine the PCI devices dont retain their mapping ids. So a PCI NIC card I have in the machine causes the pfsense machine not to start.
The one thing to take into account with Unraid vs TrueNAS is the difference between how they do RAID. Unraid always drives of different sizes in its setup, but it does not provide the same redundancy as TrueNAS. Truenas requires disk be the same size inside a vdev, but you can have multiple vdevs in one large pool. One vdev can be 5 drives of 10tb and the other vdev can be 5 drives of 2tb. You can always swap any drive in truenas with a larger drive, but it will only be as big as the smallest disk in the vdev.
Intel Core i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz with 16gb ram 165TB of storage. Motherboard is a Asus Delux 10+ years old. And a 10gb NIC. All inside a fractal Design XL case.
The hardware is by all means not top of the line, but you dont need much for a NAS.
I personally run truenas on a standalone system to act as my NAS network wide. It never goes offline and is up near 24/7 except when I need to pull a dead drive.
Unraid is my go to right now for self hosting as its learning curve for docker containers is fairly easy. I find I reboot the system from time to time so its not something I use for a daily NAS solution.
Proxmox I run as well on a standalone system. This is my go to for VM instances. Really easy to spin up any OS I would need for any purpose. I run things like home assistant for example on this machine. And its uptime is 24/7.
Each operating system has its advantages, and all three could potentially do the same things. Though I do find a containered approche prevents long periods of downtime if one system goes offline.
Publically fund it, and make it "free"?
I know not a popular opinion and the argument is always the same. If I dont use it, why do I pay for it?
But...
Public libraries are "free" and publicly funded. Public schools are "free" and publicly funded. Public streets are "free" and publicly funded. Public plumbing "free" and publicly funded.
Not everyone uses all these things, but we all fund them. Thre are defiantly many more examples.
Maybe just in terms of their electronics, such as updates and extended services.
I do wonder if things like heated seat subscription in EV's and ICE car's will keep functioning after the company disappears.
GDP (gross domestic product) has always been a poor metric IMO. It prioritizes a never ending upwards trend to increase productivity and "produce more", all while assuming infinite resource's.
There needs to be a new metric that also takes into account the planet and sustainably. We dont have infinite resource's and at some point GDP will go off a cliff.
For example you can't just cut down 100 acears today, and in a effort to increase GDP cut down 200 acres tomorrow. At somepoint you will run out, and your GDP metric will fail.
A sustainable business that produces a steady flow while maintaining a steady supply should be the gold standard. A sustainable circular industry.
Long term vs short term thinking/profits.
Disclaimer: All things stated are my opinions and by all means I am not a expert. I am a ape.
China is number one. The USA needs to be number one. The USA wants to be China. Illuminati Confirmed.
It would help if the politicians entertaining these ideas knew the difference between a link and a complete summarization of the article or content on a secondary unaffiliated website.
Websites survive by generating traffic, links to these site help increase traffic, the increase in traffic means higher ad revenues. News agencies wanting to double dip is only hurting theselves.
News agencie, you can't have your cake and eat it.
The wooden Cyber Truck is already a thing. Relevant video:
When I go for a bike ride with my SO we always ride side by side on streets that have a posted limit at or below 40kmh.
We usually only ride side by side on residential streets. Occasionally we get someone driving too close to us when passing or shouting out their windows saying single file in the same way.
Its like going for a walk, we would not walk in a single file, neither would we sit in a car in single file.