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I don't know if "many" are thinking that, @vogam7, but I'm not. As @G-M0N3Y-2503 says this is par for the course in software development. "Communication" is a lot more work and headache than you would think and their time is much better spent on making the software.

If the update notification is gone, it is safe to say that you are on the latest TrueNAS. To check the exact version you can go into TrueNAS itself.

Yes, it is implemented.

The point is that Eshtek is trying to be fair. Until they provide a service, which has ongoing costs (such as cloud backup/storage), there is no reason to charge subscription for HexOS. The base license will remain a one time purchase. It is just a piece of software that you should be able to run more or less indefinitely as is. Sure, they could charge you for that, but why would you want them to?

First, considering we are still in beta, it is likely (thought not common) that updates will break things. Anyway, the job of keeping things in sync is on HexOS. If HexOS tells you you can update TrueNAS, they are ready for it, but it is not mandatory. (it could happen that, eventually, HexOS will tell you that you must update TrueNAS to be able to receive new versions of HexOS, but we are not there yet)

You can use any other authenticator/TOTP app, if your problem is with the Google one in particular. There is 2FAS, Aegis/Raivo and a Microsoft Authenticator too. And many more.

I am well aware, but the abandonment is not the issue. Your 600 eurodollars does not guarantee the perpetual existence of Eshtek. There are many ways HexOS could go south and no big tech with big money need be involved at all. The key thing is how HexOS is abandoned. And even Google is capable of gracefully shutting down services like Stadia, where everyone got a refund and the controller got Bluetooth mode instead of turning into e-waste. HexOS is not guaranteed to become useless just because it has online activation right now. Probably? Isn't it definitely? The data is in a ZFS pool that you should be able to import into TrueNAS, no?

I assume the online activation is there because HexOS is a commercial product. Shutting down activation would really only make sense with the shut down of Eshtek as a company (or the end of development and sale of HexOS). I think it is very likely that if that ever happens they will remove the activation requirement before shutting down deck.hexos.com. And even if they decided, for some bizarre reason, to brick HexOS, the underlying TrueNAS SCALE would still work just like it does now, so nobody would be truly cooked anyway.

Not possible. License transfers are not permitted. All licenses are tied to the purchasing account.

@ThoDC If you haven't already, email support@hexos.com and they will schedule a time to work with you on this. See

I wanted to ask, what tool you are using, because the blog doesn't specifically mention it, but then I noticed it's Playwright. Probably the best choice. I hope these tests continue to grow and keep making your lives easier.

@jonp I work in software development so all of this is painfully familiar. When I saw the Immich struggles, I immediately thought "I bet they had a solution ready and it was obliterated by one of those updates". That reminds me of the classic: "There are no solutions, only trade-offs." Any half-decent team of developers is capable of making work almost any feature and solving almost any issue. If you are thinking "couldn't they just do X?", the answer is that they probably could. However, that would always be at the cost of something else being worse, broken or delayed... or it would take too much time, require too many people or cost too much money (usually at least two out of three).

They likely don't know yet, because they are still working on it. Imagine they communicate that you need to start again from scratch and then they figure out automatic migration. Or even worse, they say that automatic migration is in the works and then they run into a huge issue that makes it unworkable. How would that be received?

In the dashboard it's under Dash > Network > Details: It also shows up on the server itself after it boots up:

I think this is only you. My Deck works normally. Try opening the URL in incognito mode or clearing browser cache.