But applying a hammer takes seconds 
Question: do you have 10G internet or 25G? Also, what is in between the fiber cable from the OTO to finally a PC/Server?
Did you see this:
Shelly Plug S Gen3
That looks compact! Do you know if it can handle inductive loads e.g. washing machines?
âsmartâ, no thanks.
âEUâ plug, no thanks.
sorry
I bought a cheap one off aliexpress. I think it was around $10
The downside is that it has a EU or UK plug, but I simply take a multi-socket strip for EU/UK and cut off the plug and replace it with a a Swiss plug and then I can plug in my computer devices using a UK or EU IEC C13 cable (I have tons of these from my time living in the UK and also devices delivered with EU cables).
Actually I am also very interested in such a meter. I am looking already a long time at one that monitors power consumption and allows me to record it by accessing it vial ethernet. But it appears to me that this is probably not possible.
Is anybody using a UPS? Which one did you choose?
Iâm still hesitating but my power supplier (SIG) is trying to convince me to buy one by cutting power every few monthsâŠ
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âYeah but itâs sending data to the great leader Xiâ
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Iâve considered, but I only get a power cut once every year or so. It would be just so that it can gracefully shutdown the server rather then power anything to do work on battery power.
Normally, a UPS is also designed for that and not much more. Main question would be : can the NAS detect the powercut and automatically shut down on its own when the UPS takes over (or when the UPS reaches a certain % of its capacity). Otherwise you just drain the battery (which you can throw away afterwards and then you have a âungracefulâ shutdown which you wanted to avoid.
You get a choice at digitec, canât say how good they are though:
APC Back-UPS Pro - kaufen bei Digitec
I only bought them in an industrial background, and they were not made for home applications (only direct cabling and stuff like that).
I have one for my main socket with my PC and peripherals. It tracks and stores the data on the device. Can be downloaded as a CSV or Excel file. Bluetooth connection with my phone.
https://www.digitec.ch/de/s1/product/voltcraft-sem6000-ch-energiemessgeraet-14527512
How does it work with photos? Ie. is there a seamless app like gphotos when NAS is in background or itâs like old school way browsing for photos in folders?
ps. bit jealous of your bachelor(still?) life and fun hobbies/activities 
yes, the synology can, I guess TrueNAS as well can be interfaced to an UPS.
My usage would be to keep up the server for a few minutes at most and then gracefully shutdown.
There are great apps. Iâm using the integrated Photos app which works for me (uploads/backups automatically too like Iâm used to with OneDrive). Or you can also install Immich if you want the polished Google Photos experience. Itâs seamless.
P.s. Yeah life is amazing. I was in the Philippines in March for 3 weeks, bought a Kawasaki Z900 and started driving motorcycles (already passee the exam and drove ~7500km this summer), made a lot of new friends, went to Indonesia for 2.5 weeks in September and after that the whole NAS project
Tempting. I wanted to get a bike for a while, but would likely kill myself in the first week so have avoided.
Collecting and curating my own library of movies and TV shows was also a lot of fun (and a huge amount of work). Downloading, remuxing in MKVtoolnix (removing unnecessary audiocodecs and subtitles which arenât in English or German) and organizing everything neatly. Itâs obvious that I also have a spreadsheet of the whole media collection including the most important facts (Name, runtime, resolution, audiocodec, size etc.).
For anyone interested, you can download the spreadsheet here.
Edit: The new link should now result in a direct download of the spreadsheet. Thatâs the magic of having a NAS xD
You should look at https://trash-guides.info
The whole process can be automated. I have everything in 4k Dolby Vision or HDR10+ and highest audio quality.
Iâm working on a SHA-256 hash check. Already got the hash values for all my movies and TV shows (series-level hash), so I can check if the external HDD backup is matching it. For the NVME with changing files Iâm working on something more complex. All based on Powershell scripts though. Maybe there is a better way.
Some filesystems, such as ZFS also do checksumming internally which can add an extra layer: Checksums and Their Use in ZFS â OpenZFS documentation
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Iâll check that out. Next thing I want to implement is the Fail2Ban container from crazymax. It will block IPs that fail to login 3 times within 10min.