I just asked 2 IT guys “hey, do you know what punycode is?” And the answer I received was “I’ve heard of it but don’t know what it is.”
Thank you for informing me, but I’m far from alone in not recognizing it or having knowledge of what punycode is.

Looks like a totally legit domain. Much trusting.

I run audiobookshelf through it and it works flawlessly.

I’m on their free tier. If you don’t have a domain you need to get one, but CloudFlare does offer domain registration basically at-cost.
Because I’m on free, I can’t break down my analytics like a paid account can. i can say though that for the past 30 days my account has generated 886k requests and 47.56GB of bandwidth. I can’t tell you how much of that is nextcloud and how much is other stuff, like audiobookshelf, but hopefully this helps answer you.

100% this. I have one running in a lxc, and I expose it to the world through a CloudFlare tunnel so I needn’t worry about dyndns or people probing my public IP.

I’ll have to give it a spin. My biggest concern is for one of my VMs that occasionally moves, it has ‘disk’ for both an efi and a tpm.
In any case, I’ve read enough in this thread that I’m going to see for myself. :)
Thanks for the feedback!

TIL there’s a KVM backend for VirtualBox. Thank you. Does everything “get saved” in VirtualBox format?
I’m using libvirt on my workstation and Proxmox on my servers, it’s effort but possible to transfer the VMs back and forth when I need to, not sure if I could do that if I switched.

For basic hosting of stuff+storage management, TrueNAS has a highly polished product that lets you install docker containers with ease.

They have a curated collection that includes every piece of software you mentioned, plus the ability to install dockerhub images as ‘custom’ images.

Originally I started with a single Pentium 4 with 4x1.5TB disks, and it’s grown over time. Now at home I have 2 TrueNAS machines giving me 80TB of storage, and 3 HP elitedesk Minis running proxmox for general VMs.
I also have a managed switch, which lets me pipe the raw Internet into it, and deliver it to the proxmox hosts so I can run a virtual router with high-availability.

OpenZFS, which TrueNAS uses as its primary storage filesystem, has recently gained the ability to increase existing disk arrays by adding additional disks (as opposed to replacing all disks with larger ones) and this makes it even more flexible for future growth.

I will say though, that if the machine is dated and you load up ‘all the things’ in it, you might not be impressed by performance, so be sure to manage your expectations.

I also suggest that you consider making yourself a roadmap, so that you can plan out what hardware you’ll need to implement the ‘next big thing’

Also - the steamlink you mentioned - I’m not sure what you’re chasing there exactly, but if your steam rig is already in your home, the only thing you can do to improve latency is provide Ethernet to both the streaming sender and receiver.

Good luck!

Well, the big claim is that it is memory-safe. This means that things like null pointer references, double-free errors, and use-after-free errors shouldn’t be possible.
There’s a ton of reading to be done if you’re interested, just search “rust memory safety” for a start.

Run, Morty! EVERYTHING is on a cob!

It’s not FOSS, but you can use Plex for it. The PlexAmp app is very good.

The AD&D “Gold Box” games from SSI Inc. stored game text in 6-bit encoding. The first one of these I played was “Champions of Krynn” and the PC release came on 4 360k 5.25 dsdd floppy disks. They actually needed the packing in those days, and couldn’t afford to spent cpu cycles or ram on built in compression.
I remember opening up the game data files in a file viewer (maybe pc-tools?) and being confounded by the lack of text in the files.

Correct.

I love having Audiobookshelf. My spouse and I have our own accounts so that we don’t trample each other’s saved progress.

Wut? I’ve got a bunch of dockerhub images running on a scale box

It hasn’t been removed. They’re just not accepting patches like they do for maintained subsystems. What’s thrown out, exactly?

Also 10 years? No. Try less than 2. It was merged in Linux 6.7

Mint offers 32bit support, unless you’ve got a really old cpu.

Interesting. This could be a decent secondary use for my VPS

Ok so what is pangolin? I’m only familiar with the animal and its role in the pandemic.

Edit: someone doesn’t like jokes I guess?

So to provide further context, PCs have tables that can be checked to see what hardware is located where. Phones don’t have this, and if you try to query the wrong component or the right component at the wrong address, you can crash the whole device.

PCs were this way too, before PnP/PCI/ACPI tech showed up.

Loading Linux on a Pentium with a bunch of ISA cards was NOT a guaranteed win.