You can't protect your data if you use those apps. Pick one.

Florida man strikes again!

Who owns LeMonde?

Just lol at Synology trying to do an Nvidia

There's plenty of N100/N350 motherboards with 6 SATA ports on AliExpress, grab them while you can

Synology is like Ubiquity in the self-hosted community: sure it's self-hosted, but it's definitely not yours. End of the day you get to deal with their decisions.

Terramaster lets you run your own OS on their machine. That's basically what a homelabber wants: a good chassis and components. I couldn't see a reason to buy a Synology after Terramaster and Ugreen started ramping out their product lines which let you run whatever OS you wanted. Synology at this point is for people who either don't know what they're doing or want to remain hands-off with storage management (which is valid; you don't want to do more work when you get home for work). Unfortunately, such customers are now out in the lurch, so TrueNAS or trust some other company to hold your data safe.

Thanks

Alpine isn't exactly fortified either. It needs some work too. Ideally you'd use a deblobbed kernel with KSPP and use MAC, harden permissions, install hardened_malloc. I don't recall if there's CIS benchmarks or STIGs for Alpine but those are very important too. These are my basic steps for hardening anything. But Alpine has the advantage of being lean from the start. Ideally you'd compile your packages with hardened flags like on Gentoo but for a regular container and VM host that might be too much (or not - depends on your appetite for this stuff).

Matrix is the same and no one wants to use it. Why?

We need to let them know and ask for an explanation