I've had this happen a couple times, and contacting the seller directly has gotten it sorted out. Even if they seem sketchy, they don't want to take a hit to their reputation. If they don't want to help, I'd escalate to eBay support.

If neither of them work out, then I'd try contacting WD. A refurb with no warranty is better than nothing at that point.

They're referencing the TRaSH Guides, a great resource for setup and basic tuning of an *arr stack. It's where a lot of people get started.

Same here. But on the bright side, at least data hoarding doesn't take up a ton of physical space.

If a dictator takes over, they lose their own power. It's in their own best interests to rule against Trump this time.

Great little knives. They aren't my EDC, but I have a handful of them to keep in cars and bags.

Sometimes, all you need is a sharp edge and something to hold it with. This does exactly that, and nothing more.

Sounds like a great excuse for a bit of a hardware upgrade, SSDs have gotten pretty cheap. You can change your whole computing life for $30-50.

Both, but consumer is generally worse. For reference, check here for issues related to yours. The instructions are geared toward Arch, but the problems affect most distros.

Proprietary BS, Dell has become kinda notorious for that. A lot of their stuff has weird hacky workarounds to get Linux running properly. Unfortunately there isn't a great way to know that in advance, other than poking through wikis or asking around.

For most computers, it really isn't much different than installing Windows. Most things will just work, maybe a few drivers to install, and you're good to go.

Yup. For the server admin, maybe 10 minutes of reading and another 10-20 for setup. For the users (if any), they just need to input an IP or URL along with logging in.

And it doesn't rely on external servers to connect like Plex does, which is always a bonus.

That works to get it going, but it's flaky. The older Broadcom chips need either the old reverse-engineered driver, or the old closed source driver Broadcom released.

Basically anything should work, I had one for a while running Arch + KDE. Wifi doesn't work out of the box (thanks Broadcom), but once you install the right driver it's perfectly fine.

DDNS takes about the same amount of time to get running these days, something like Caddy + DuckDNS goes together pretty easy. Even for purely personal use, I use DDNS for media access and save the VPN for share access and admin work.

Either way works though.