better to pass the individual disks through to the VM and manage the zpool from there?

That’s what I do.

I like it better this way, because less dependencies.

Proxmox boots from it’s own SSD, the VM that provides the NAS lives there, too.

The zpool (consisting of 5 good old harddisks) can be easily plugged somewhere else if needed, and it carries the data of the NAS, but nothing else. I can rebuild the proxmox base, I can reinstall that VM, they all do not affect each other.

Go to youtube and work through a few of these. …for dummies tutorials.

Do you know how the polygamist redneck hippy counts his wives?

Wait…

Is he a real redneck AND a real hippy at the same time??

Or is he maybe just half redneck, half hippy?

Because if it’s the latter, then you need to start your counting like:

1/2 mrs hippy, 1 mrs hippy, 1 1/2 mrs hippy…

Tl;dr but:

If you simply want the best UX, then you need to stay with the real Facebook etc.

They spend millions and millions and millions only for UX. Free software can never compete, period.

Have you heard the story of the man who was driving his car fast on the freeway when he heard a warning on the radio: a car on the freeway drives in the wrong direction! And he thinks “One? There must be hundreds…”

:-)

Now I understand that you are personally involved and emotionally invested.

It would have suited you (and your case) well to make this transparent right from start, before calling somebody a dick etc.

This drama is from 2021.

Oh.
Well.
Then.

Now it’s pretty clear why we should (see OP) fork as soon as possible NOW !!!1!111

You don’t seem to understand the technology enoug

Ah. So there are even more people whose fault is that they do not understand…

;-)

Nixpkgs asks NOTHING of the maintainers of the original packages.

No, no, no. You just said above that the problem is because the developer did not understand something that nixos does or wants or whatever.

renck was being a dick because he didn’t understand Nix

Sorry but it makes no sense to me.

Please tell me: why in the world should a developer (of free software) invest any of his time into trying to understand what some packager/distributor does with his product?

How can i get it to work in these conditions?

Borrow an android phone from some friend/neighbor for an hour…

Yes, very much so!

But dad, there is no…

But why don’t you use the bridge?

I have 3 separate machines:

1. That fat home server with NAS and VM’s etc.

2. A Pi serving my smart home.

3. A plastic router with OpenWrt doing DNS and (I like to believe) some security, and giving WiFi to many small devices.

They all run 24/7 but I just don’t want everything to be dead and dark when one machine is down for whatever reason.

teach the world to swim

Just look at this picture, all the water around the world. It is swimming already, isn’t it?

This will be the spec for my next server. The current one is smaller, and several years old

I have several different requirements for my server, for example, my son does video editing and needs lots of storage. I want to experiment with more VM’s and containers, therefore RAM and threads.

Do you think people just beginning could get buy on 4 cores and 8 GB RAM for a while?

For most people I think they just want to have some NAS and a reliable machine. But please grant them 16 GB, otherwise they would ask why their laptop has so much more than their server :-)

I would absolutely want the extra router because most people have one from their service provider. For self hosting, you want an additional router with your own software.

The hypothesis is that $150 of equipment to avoid dozens of hours of software configuration

OK fair try, but you also need to sell me 20-25 TB of disk space on 5 spindles (plus a SSD for the bootdisk), 64 GB RAM (with a chance to go up to 128) and the CPU must have 16 threads or more.

Either a defective RAM or a physically broken (bent) mainboard.