There’s literally a button to save a post or comment.

Long-term cause it has at this point been around for actual decades.

If you’re gonna use an overlay network like Tailscale I would highly recommend also taking a look at netbird. Similar concept, but fully self hostable if the need arises (but not recommended unless you have a specific need).

I appreciate that they are trying to be less bad. But as long as heroic (legendary) exists, I have zero reason to ever use this. I’d much rather have a launcher for 3 platforms than 3 launchers. Is also much more feature rich for me on Linux, but even on Windows that was already the case years ago.

I’ve also read that it’s supposed to be fully or mostly vibe coded, which kinda explains the issue you’re seeing…

My various servers, firewall and nas are relatively power optimized. Everything including switches (most with some 10g ports) and access points is 160 W or so. I can’t give you monthly usage, as I’ve got solar+battery so it’s frequently just 0 kWh for some days. It’s also rather hard to separate from the other power usage in the house when solar doesn’t fit cover it.

Fortunately, Windows is also optional.

I did have to swap the micro switches on my Logitech G502 after a few years as well. They aren’t immune to this (quite the opposite). Swapping them on any mouse isn’t exactly hard, but does require some tools (soldering iron, mostly) and a frankly annoying amount of time.

All of them could just use the micro switches that actually fit that application and none of that would be necessary.

Spoiler: there won’t be relief in 2028 (unless the bubble actually pops).

Having your own collection is great. But it doesn’t provide the service Spotify does (or any streaming service). 80% of the time I listen to discovery-type generated playlists. I want to find new music. This is fundamentally impossible with the music I own. This is something you can’t self host. Even if you have a vast collection of music you don’t know (by whatever means your get it), you still need the algorithms to pick the music that you’re likely to like.

I really wish I could. I self host basically everything else. Even tried some local music similarity training for “smart playlists”. It’s kinda neat at best, but no where remotely close to the music discovery of Spotify and other online services. You need the massive amounts of users to derive that data.

Yes. That’s basically the point. They call it a “drop in replacement”, but last I used it manually there were some extra steps for what I wanted to do. To be clear: not for every thing you want to setup, just one if the things I read don’t up required extra steps. But I also hear that those things have changed since then and it’s mostly seamless now.

Especially without any additional context is knowledge about their background, directed at someone closely only starting out, this is incredibly bad advice.

Proxmox and Docker don’t really do the same thing. They live in the same area, but the coverage is very different. You can always use docker when your host is running proxmox: either individually or in groups inside of an lxc, or all in w dedicated VM, or even natively on the same house if you prefer chaos. But you can’t do the opposite: Sometimes you just need a VM. Maybe you only need a couple of devices, and you know they run on or are even designed for docker, then that’s the better option. In all other cases, and when just getting started, proxmox is just the way more universal solution if you’re only planning on having a single host (for now).

The management tools in proxmox are great. The community scripts are a fantastic resource and only work with proxmox. I would suggest you set it up natively, not on top of Debian though, even if that’s already installed. Not the least of the reasons are to be able to use ZFS easily, including on on the boot partition (select that in the installer).

Finally, if you’re gonna stick with docker, like others said: consider podman. That really does the same thing docker does, but it’s fully open source. Arguably it’s better in some areas, but on the flip side might, in occasion, require fiddling with something intended specifically for docker and using advanced setups.

Also there really is no wrong answer, either. And you can always change whatever you choose.

Good luck explaining how to do any of this to my parents, for example. For someone with a technical background that’s feasible, for someone with an it background it’s even easy. For the other 90 or 95% of people who are actually supposed to buy and use these things, it isn’t. They don’t even know something like this can be done, let alone that it should be done.