My guess would be that Synology is an expensive but weak computer, bare minimum for NAS.
Immich does require some CPU and also GPU for video transcoding and vector search embedding generation.
I had Immich (and many other containers) running successfully on AMD Ryzen 2400G for years. And recently I upgraded to 5700G since it was a cheap upgrade.
OpenVPN is far from "no fuss", especially when compared to Tailscale.
I like to self host things so I also self host Headscale (private tailnet) and private derp proxy nodes (it is like TURN). Since derp uses https and can run on 443 using SNI I get access to my network also at hotels and other shady places where most of the UDP and TCP traffic is blocked.
Tailscale ACL is also great and requires more work to achieve the same result using OpenVPN.
And Tailscale creates a wireguard mesh which is great since not everything goes through the central server.
Wireguard is great, I have personally donated to it and have used Wireguard for years before it became stable. And I still use it on devices (routers) where Tailscale is not supported. But as Jason stated - it is quite basic and is supposed to be used in other tools and this is what we are seeing with solutions like Tailscale.
Tailscale makes it simple for the user - no need to set up and maintain complex configurations, just install it, sign in with your SSO and it does everything for you. Amazing!
That device is bafflingly LTE cat20 with 2Gbps downlink, and then has LAN connectivity only through a single 1Gbps ethernet port.
Actually, it seems one of the advantages of the new Ubiquiti devices over Teltonika/Mikrotik/Gl.iNet is that they actually have 10 Gbps SFP+ and 2.5 Gbps ethernet ports.
XMPP felt great when compared to Matrix. Matrix was in a bad state some years ago when I hosted it for a while, and seems like it still is the same messy state. I avoid it as much as possible but for some reason there are communities using it.
At this point it should just die so people would be motivated to replace it with something better.
Which perfectly fits the Matrix ethos of everything constantly being rewritten or replaced with something new that only implements half the features before the original thing is ever finished.
It is a fork of Fedora, one of the most stable distros out there. It is more geared towards regular users when compared to Arch on which SteamOS is based.
I am a long time Arch user but I totally understand why they went with Fedora for Bazzite.
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