Dragonish

i like Taskjuggler, but it may not check all your boxes. specifically there is no kanban or issue tracker built in. It has very basic note capability, so i combine it with markdown files to keep a list of issues, risks, dependencies and references associated with the large projects we are working on. I use a kanban vscode plugin which uses Markdown front matter to set the status and next action date. Taskjuggler has a learning curve, as it is text based and the files that define your projects are stored in source control and need to be transpiled into html reports. It can track time granularly with the bookings feature, although tbh i have never had a need to use that, the basic scheduling has given me a good enough for my need view of resource allocation.

If you have a reverse proxy running on the mini pc and handling jellyfin.y.com then there is this plugin which will send the WoL packet to the jellyfin server when a request is sent.

https://github.com/dulli/caddy-wol

My experience is that ITs role is to manage organizational liability, not helping people. Perhaps i am naive, but i wanted a job in tech so that i could help support other people in doing amazing work. You do get to do that, but it needs to be constantly framed from that point of organizational liability in order to effect any change. Different orgs have different risk appetites and cultures that make that change easier or harder.

tbh i would still start a carrer in tech, i do not want to dissuade you from such. For me i was better able to navigate the day to day bullshit after i learned what they are actually paying me for vs the dream i had in my head.

Welcome! Without buying more enclosures and increasing the number of drives you can access at one time, you will need to partition your files based on your own use case and maintain an index so that you easily can retrieve the right drive when you need to access data. Perhaps you get a drive for each year. Perhaps images go to one and video to another. perhaps you split on the file name. For an index, this can be as simple as labeling the drives and putting them on your shelf. As mentioned by others, there are software solutions for indexing file metadata as well.

If you buy more enclosures you can use MergerFS or another union file system to bring both disks together and provide a single view while using ext4 for each drive. This allows you to easily remove a single drive and plug it into another basic linux distro, but you will not get any data striping or other protections. So if 1 drive dies, you will loose whatever data was stored on that disk. Because of that, I advise you to still think about partitioning your files even if you union them so that you understand your failure scope.

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