Mullvad doesn't offer port forwarding anymore if that's important to you.

Doesn't bother me much since I'm only using it for media.

I bought wd red pros since people said they were quiet. I think they were comparing them to these type of enterprise drives because they are absolutely not quiet when seeking. I wouldn't mind drives like this if they were in a closet or away from me but my nas is in my office/guest bedroom. I've since replaced the pros with red plus and they are MUCH quieter.

Not sure which station they're talking about but I know the silver line was plagued with concrete issues.

Monitors tend to not have remotes.

Settings > customize. Pull to refresh is there

Numbers scary

It supports them with feelings of pride and accomplishment.

While this article and post happen to have the same title I have noticed that way too many posts have editorialized titles that aren't nearly what the article is portraying. Needs to be more rules for these communities that the post title must match the article title.

My bolt has oil for the reduction gear but it's not part of the regular maintenance. Expected interval for that would probably be similar to a transmission fluid change.

It's probably built so that the fluid lasts for the lifetime of the car, or whenever there's any issues it's able to be changed. Only thing is lifetime is different for everyone especially depending on driving conditions.

Just built one myself. Here's what I used:

• Jonesbo N2 case
• Topton/CWWK/BKHD NAS motherboard from AliExpress - includes N5105 or J6412 processors, 2 M.2 slots and 2x ddr4 slots. They haven't started rolling out N100 boards yet otherwise I would have gone for that.
• 32gb ddr4
• EVGA supernova 450gm power supply. Overkill but they don't make many sfx power supplies that are fully modular.
• 2x1tb nvme drives
• Case has 5 hdd bays for a pretty decent amount of media storage.

Cost me less than $600 USD not including any HDD. Modifying this a little could probably put you under $500

Prior to this I used an old Optiplex 3040 sff ($100) with a 1tb HDD and core i3 6100 and replaced the cd drive with a SSD bay so I could boot the OS off of that. It worked for a budget but didn't have any expandable storage.

I have a similar tramontina set from Sam's club that includes an extra 12" skillet. Absolutely worth the price twice over and it would be my suggestion to anyone looking for a stainless set. I use all of the pieces and an equivalent allclad set would be well over $1k. I also use a 10.5" lodge cast iron, a 12" nonstick from tfal, and a le creuset dutch oven.