Nowadays everyone accepted the name “Discord” but I think it’s a pretty poor choice of branding too.

A terrible name for an app meant to facilitate communication. Always baffled me. But the name is so widely recognized that nobody thinks twice about it.

I always thought Noosphere would make a cool name for a Discord replacement, especially if it incorporates a way to permanently catalog the knowledge accrued by the community, say as a built-in wiki. That might actually make it viable as a support platform.

Why federate if you’re just expecting a small group of friends to use it?

So no mini PC then? I’d have to build a tower I suppose.

Don’t own one yet. But I guess USB?

why would you go with a proprietary OS?

I’m happy with my Unifi network and security setup, especially the single pain of glass. I had assumed the NAS would integrate with that system, but it doesn’t seem to.

No longer true

Does TruNAS support this feature?

Related, will TruNAS work on a mini PC with an attached DAS?

Semi-related: companies advertising “military grade” like it means something other than “made by the lowest bidder”.

I have a QNAP NAS in addition to the unas2 mentioned in the OP. Both have WD red drives. I also run Proxmox on an ancient laptop. How does virtualizing a file server work?

ZFS seems pretty RAM hungry and I don’t believe you can add new drives to an existing volume.