I always have the irrational or maybe rational fear of glass breaking. Any furniture I buy doesn’t have any glass elements.

Do you mind giving me an example? I have issues with technical questions but with enough coaxing I could find what I was looking for.

I feel like I’m probably the sole one who’s happy with Kubuntu. It’s just Ubuntu with KDE on it.

Anything that can run proxmox is running proxmox. Even if it’s a single OS running on it, it’s still running proxmox

This age gap fails the check for me

37 / 2 = 18.5, 18.5 + 7 = 25.5

If someone that old who can’t get someone around his age, but is suddenly interested in younger people… That’s just someone preying on naivety.

It’s a VPN. It’s standard ChaCha20/AES 128. Good enough for private entities but not FIPS certified

I use a mixture of tailscale and zerotier. Both are pretty powerful.

Then you’ll need to factor in the solar initial cost as well!

People do not necessarily do reasonable things. A lot of society is built on the assumption of people doing reasonable things.

BirdNet Pi!

https://github.com/Nachtzuster/BirdNET-Pi

Yes but you can get two free instances under the same account.

Actually you can get 2 IPs for free. Then use high availability

I use ZeroTier on a MikroTik router.

Then just advertise routes on the router.

Ionos.de has a €1 a month VPS

I think 1 core, 1gb ram, and 10gb.

Use either caddy or Nginx proxy manager. Both are easy to setup. Also both are dockerized.

I use Tailscale as my tunnel.

Total latency is about 70-90ms for me.

My friend has 1G/1G Internet. I have a rsync cron job backing up there 2 times a week.

It has a 8TB NVMe drive that I use bulk data backup and a 2TB os drive for VM stuff.

I have the glowrhino prybar on my keychain for 4 years now.

It’s actually one of the more useful thing I’ve kept on my body.

RouterOS has WG built in as well as ZeroTier. RouterOS has become quite powerful lately, but make sure you have at least an ARM/ARM64 CPU for it.

All of my remote routers are running RouterOS without anything on top of it. RouterOS is powerful enough for anything I throw on it. But I am using much beefier routers, I have 2 x 5009 and a HAP AX3 which have plenty of flash and ram ro run the additional packages I need.

As for normal computers, I have it on a UPS and I backup core files to off-site areas. Additionally, I buy SSDs that have a little bit of powerloss protection.

I’ve never had issues with mini PCs but I’ve had issues with PIs. I’ve since switched to high endurance SD cards for my Pis and they’ve been rock solid. One’s actually semi exposed to the elements for about a year now without a hiccup.

With RouterOS you can still use DoH with either a self hosted list or a selected ad list. If you want to selfhost a DNS server I’d just host a Adguard Home instance on a VPS for all of your devices.

I also have 2 VPN system for my remote management on 2 separate systems. I learned that the hard way when one of my clients is 8 timezones away.

My ISP blocks all outgoing ports. Maybe I’m not trying hard enough but anything I try port forwarding ends up getting blocked.

Minecraft and port 80 are the 2 I’ve tried and they’ve been unresponsive

I travel on the go often, wireless charging is too inefficient for me. I’d rather charge with my PD battery pack.

Another point, I use my PD pack to charge everything from my phone, drone, camera, to my laptop, ear buds.

Most of those don’t have a wireless charger so I just stick to wired PD charging.