Depending on the dongle, that would increase power consumption. I think that is difficult in the current state, seeing that there is not much power to spare at the moment.

It was such an interesting idea having the webapps be first citizens.

Wasn’t that also the idea with the first iPhone and iOS1 until they realized the potential of native apps?

I am a hesitating running a VM in proxmox to run my docker services there. It doesn’t feel right to me (maybe I am wrong, what do I know…).

I also do not understand yet how this would work in a cluster. I don’t want all the services bundled on one node (then the whole cluster thing would have been a pointless exercise haha)

And that is good! It would have been a better answer if you mentioned these major limitations as well so that interested people don’t need to look it up :)

Case in point: Netflix runs on AWS and experienced no issues during this thing.

But Netflix did encounter issues. For example the account cancel page did not work.

Please elaborate. I have only found that all drives will be treated as they would have the smallest capacity in the bunch.

There is some manual workarounds, which is would not call „can do it fine“

Or am I missing something?

Yes, but it does not have redundancy or caching. Redundancy can be achieved with snapraid, but how you get caching I don’t know…

Free Tier? You mean the 30 day trial?

Which is still not nearly as userfriendly as unraid.

With unraid I can browse the community store, click install and with juste one additional click I most of the time have this service fully running. It notifies me if there is an update and I can install updates with a single click.

With proxmox, I have yet to figure out how to update the installed services without manually ssh-ing in every single container and run a specific update command.

Unraid is light years ahead in terms of userfriendly ux for novice users.

I am more of a Lenovo guy, but they are more or less the same anyway.

Here is a great list of these tiny PCs: https://github.com/a-little-wifi/TinySecrets

I have one installed on a raspberry pi 5 with NVMe adaptor.

In this regard: here is a comparison of all the Lenovo tinys: https://github.com/a-little-wifi/TinySecrets