DigitalDilemma

Frigate is great, but it needs a lot of cpu/gpu or a corel TPU. OP has old hardware, so I’m guessing a slow CPU.

Zoneminder is a non-AI cctv system. Also free. Not as fun to play with as Frigate but solid.

You know for a fact that the people doing the largest share of the recovery effort have nothing to do with the decision to have no backups.

Exactly. How they got there is no consolation to those dealing with it now.

As a sysadmin that’s pretty much my worst nightmare. I really feel for those trying to pick the pieces back up again after that.

I’ve recently done almost exactly this, although I used an ESP8266 running esphome. That powers two 120mm fans that have various speed settings (including 0 rpm via PWM) depending on both the power state of various devices in the cupboard where it’s housed, as well as temperature. All speeds and controls are exposed to linux via the Home Assitant API, and of course that has its own alerts and dashboards. I wanted to run this fully independently of the machines its cooling.

Not worth pursuing if you don’t already have an HA install, but if you do then perhaps worth a thought of a different approach.

Hard disagree. Resizing partitions is dangerous and difficult for most computer users.

(I’m a sysadmin who does this stuff multiple times a day, so this isn’t negative bias)

Symlinking is quick, easy, totally safe. It’s one of the best things about linux filesystems. Use it.