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Hey all, I want to host a small home server as a private vpn, torrent box, Jellyfin server, small lemmy instance and maybe photo backup.. I'm looking for a NAS box or something that would be power efficient and aesthetically pleasing enough for my living room that would be able to handle those tasks. I remember seeing an ad recently for a 2 bay NAS that also had room for 2 NVME. it looked kind of like a white volcano and it had a laptop grade cpu, which would be great I think. Unfortunately I can't find the product anymore, and to be frank I don't really know if that would be overkill for my use case. If anyone has any reccomendations I would love to hear them.

Does anybody have a reccomendation for a tent that has a fly that can be staked out to make a usable 'porch' area during light, vertical rainfall? On my recent trip I was stuck in my tent for a while during a light - moderate rainfall and I really wanted to open the fly and just watch the storm. The NEMO tent I took would have had rain falling right into the bathtub floor though. I think that Sierra designs made something like what I'm imagining in the past, however they no longer sell them anymore.

I hiked up to emerald lake in the Trinity Alps, CA over 4 days. Great views and saw some really awesome wildlife. The Kakwa is my first real 'Ultralight' pack and it weighed in at ~20lbs fully packed with food and water. I felt like it carried great, and was super comfortable for the whole trip. I have a few gripes with the pack though: the front pocket could be longer, and stretchier IMO, the right water bottle pocket didn't securely hold my nalgene, and the pack isn't seam sealed at all. It seems like a bummer to have a pack made out of waterproof material and have no seam sealing at all. I used a pack liner and all my down gear stayed dry through the rain but water definitely came through the seams. I'm thinking of trying to seam seal the pack myself but I'm not sure how to go about it. Does anyone have tips on products and application?