Even with cash we’re at the mercy of a country, if they fuck up their economy and hyperinflate it, money is gone anyway.
The only way forward is to carry around stuff that has intrinsic universal value. The currency of the future is potatoes, start stocking up.
I moved to the NL from a poor country when 18 and my first job then was cleaning hotel rooms in Amsterdam. I had to take the train every day, for context I made about 550 euros a month (yes it’s way below minimal wage, it was a scammy company where the hours you worked were calculated based on how many rooms you cleaned and how much time they count for each, we were on 0 hours contracts).
The train for the entire month would have cost me something like 90 Euros if I recall correctly. I had discovered that since the trains were double deckers I could get on at 1 end of the train and watch which floor the conductor is coming on, then walk through the other floor to the other end of the train, repeat until I got off - so I could skim without a ticket.
It was often the same conductor on the same track and I assumed he was completely unaware of me, but one day I was so exhausted from work I missed him and he got to me and asked for my ticket - as you can imagine I couldn’t really afford the fine. I don’t know what he saw, but when I obviously couldn’t produce a ticket he said he just had to check something and basically dicked around for 2-3 mins occasionally asking me chit-chat questions until we got to the next station, then told me he has to deal with the station and he’d be back in a few mins for my ticket and winked at me. Obviously I got off and waited for the next train. I was very thankful and paid more attention going forward to avoid the situation again. Luckily my situation got better shortly after and I didn’t need to skim anymore, nor take that train.
About 2 years later I was doing well in life and was going back to the town I used to live in to meet a friend, and by luck the same conductor was there - I didn’t realise until he asked for my ticket. I repeated the situation to him to see if he recognised me and he said while he didn’t recognise me, but he remembered me. He said he saw me most days when I hid from him, but he also saw me looking beaten down, sometimes in my house cleaner uniform. He obviously couldn’t just give me a permanent free ride but he also didn’t have to run after me, so since I gave him the opportunity to turn a blind eye and it seemed like I needed it he did what he could so he wouldn’t have to fine me.
I thanked him (I was incredibly touched to learn how much he was doing for me, it wasn’t 1 time he was good to me, it was every time) and offered to treat him to dinner or drinks or something I could repay him with, but he just said he was glad to see I was doing better and to try and pay it forward if I can, said his goodbye and went on to work.
10/10 person.
I’d make the same point as everyone else - choose a distro that suits your needs better - but it seems already made several times.
I’ve used Linux both personally and professionally for a long time but I just don’t want to tinker/break my main desktop. I am currently using bazzite, and while it’s not perfect I’ve found it great in the not breaking department. The immutable part takes some getting used to though. The recent drama around it is annoying though.
I’d be cautious with nix, while it’s reproducible you might end up having to put a lot of effort into making it what you want. If you want that experience then by all means, but it may just frustrate you further if you do it on your main machine.
I don’t use it so I can’t recommend it, but if you’re interested in other options to research there’s a mergerfs+snapraid combo.
I currently pass through my disks to an unraid VM and then mount them through nfs which works (but from the sounds of it probably not a valid option for you, not would I recommend it), but I want to try replacing it with mergerfs at some point.
The thing that has mainly turned me off of zfs is (from what I understand) that you kinda need to plan how you’re going to expand when you set it up. Which really doesn’t work for me with a random collection of disks of varying sizes.
Another note for option 1, since proxmox 8.4 there is virtiofs which would allow you to mount a folder to a VM without having to go through nfs. You may have to mess with selinux in the VM depending on what you do in there, but just fyi it’s a thing.
Does it have deduplication enabled? Afaik that’s the functionality that the high memory footprint is usually quoted.
(Also, was that meant to be 170TB?)
I never understood the argument of “if it’s not in the UI you may need to use a command to achieve it and it’s scary”.
On windows, if it’s not in the UI you have to use either a powershell command or update the registry to change it - which are both a very similar experience.
The only difference I actually see in this point is that Linux has a lot more options.
They’re harder to eat