WDYM by "throttling"?
Since you're posting here, the answer is obvious.
God bless America...
At idle, power consumption of the NUC is very low–about 5 watts. At load, it’s about 100 watts.
100W? What kind of monster NUC are you running? O.o
Okay, you've convinced me, inline images are a bad idea.
Hmm, their BE still does a bit as it facilitates the connection of two devices with another. The clients are independently connected to it and if two want to talk with another, they first talk to the BE to coordinate the firewall piercing on both ends.
Still, given that an OSS re-implementation exists and is in no danger of being canned (TS went ahead and hired the person who made it lol), it being proprietary isn't a big deal.
What you just posted concerns the experimental RAID5/6 mode which, unlike all other block group modes, did not have CoW's inherent safety.
As it stands, there is no stable RAID5/6 support in btrfs. If we're talking about non-experimental usage of btrfs, it is irrelevant.
I bought myself a second hand Intel Celeron J4105 SBC in a super cheapo mATX case with time bomb power supply and 16GB RAM for ~70-80€ IIRC. I haven't had a serious use for transcoding yet but that thing has an skylake-era iGPU, so it should be capable of that.
I Added a SATA HBA with Marvell chip (or SIL, don't get Asmedia) for ~20-30€ and had myself a NAS for like 100€.
10-20W at idle, so that's about 30€/Year at 0.3€/kWh.
Last year, a new generation of Intel's ATX SBCs finally released in form of the N100, so look out for those maybe. You could probably achieve basically the same using socketed low-end second hand chips from previous generations; I'd take a look at second hand prebuilts.
I didn't know about them when I specced mine but "Wolfgang's channel" on Youtube makes great content about this sort of thing: https://youtube.com/channel/UCsnGwSIHyoYN0kiINAGUKxg
I've never flashed Magisk through other ways than the recovery.
With the official recovery, you have to use adb sideload and point it at the APK. It's actually also an installable zip.
with the shitshow that is google domains and the like, this seems like a good opportunity to look into a few of the alternatives.
I don't see how google domains play into this? If you're using their DNS and it sucks, just use a different DNS host instead. I can recommend https://desec.io/.
most of those solutions seem built around selling seats which means they want you to add individual devices rather than just setting up a tunnel.
Are you talking about Tailscale?
The idea behind every client and server running a tailscaled isn't to sell you more seats but rather to enable P2P connections. Their whole product is set up around this; ACLs and individual device sharing wouldn't work without this architecture.
If you don't care about all of that, you can simply set up a subnet router on one device and use it like a classical VPN server. Though I've never run into device limits on the free plan, even before they were increased.
Tailscale is as close to a hassle-free user-friendly solution as you can reasonably get.
Tailscale's official clients are FOSS on free platforms and there is an officially endorsed FOSS back-end (headscale) if you wanted to self-host a fully FOSS environment.
Of course, hosting headscale requires a public server which you may not want or have the ability to host and in those cases, using their proprietary back-end as a service is absolutely fine in my books.
As a company, Tailscale has generally struck me as quite the opposite of "garbage".
Which of the drives does this happen with? Or does it happen with both?