Could you extend on the “archival” parts a little? What would your daily(?) use look like?

And you think this behavior magically goes away just because it’s a different language?

a motivated group of talented Rust OS developers could build a Linux-compatible kernel, from scratch, very quickly, with no need to engage in LKML politics

Riiight… Because those developers would always be of the same opinion… Good luck with that.

Which display size? How much storage?

Budget?

Sure, if you’d rather like to believe that.

The other bad news: there are so many vulnerabilities on all systems which can be used to gain root-level access, it’s just a matter of time. Also, even future vulnerabilities will be an issue, as the underlying Sinkclose attacks will still work.

Docker image is already updated.

Ah. Personally I’d do the mounting via fstab to get a consistent path.

How do you mount your volume?

Oh please. The middle east has been and will be religious nutjobs vs. religious nutjobs for ages.

Fucking religious nutjobs…

Not all of them.

I am unsure about sustainability

In what regard?

Yes, I know. Many phones will also be restricted to one active esim profile at once.

Apart from the world of trouble you might get yourself into when doing such things on secured systems, why are you going at it in such a complicated way?

Why not simply use a self hosted file/document storage and sharing solution like Nextcloud or Pydio Cells or something like that? Reachable through standard HTTP(S), which is a lot easier to reach than most other protocols.

Physical leaves the option of a second one for travel or similar.

Best case: he has no idea what he’s talking about. Worst case: he has and still writes that.

I’m thinking 25DB is a hard cap, ideally under 20DB.

I think HDDs are typically around 5-10DB,

Um no. More like 20-25db at idle, up to 30 during heavy seek activity, depending on model.

I run 3x 5400rpm drives in my NAS, and the drives are definitely the loudest parts in the whole build, and are definitely noticeable in the office room.

Define “very quiet”? Because that’s going to be tricky with spinning rust, depending on your noise tolerance.