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Opnsense or pfsense are good options. Most people would suggest the former.

If you use your existing router as an AP you need to ensure it has a different IP address then your firewall and turn off DHCP.

If buying APs most would suggest unifi access points for their features and ease of use.

The *sense options let your use wire guard, openvpn, or others like tailscale, tinc.

For hardware any dual nic (in the speed you want) any n95, n100, n150 mini PC should more than meet your needs.

I would consider zoraxy.

https://github.com/tobychui/zoraxy

Single go binary, works on Windows natively if you need that and somewhat more feature rich than npm (if your not custom writing configs)

While the idea of this is interesting there’s some unknowns. 3000km at what efficiency? Even at 10kwh/100km that’s still a 300kwh battery. To charge that in 5 mins ignoring losses you would need a source able to supply like 3.5 megawatts.

Looking at the largest Tesla super chargers near me of 325kw that would still take 55 minutes (again no losses).

We are going to need massive grid investments to be able to support fast charging at scale and if batteries are going to be that large than we will need to also consider higher capacity chargers.

Least year I paid $485 cdn for 22 tb wd red pro drives. Right now the same drives are $749 cdn.

It’s already too late

For the ones I imported it seems like the location data is still there

https://takeout.google.com/

Export your photos with take out

Then use immich-go to import

https://github.com/simulot/immich-go

Ubuntu is based on Debian, by the nature of that it will have more things than Debian.

Ubuntu generally has more cutting Edge features and tools by the nature of what it is, but the company supporting it also is pushing snap files for compatability containers which may or may not be your cup of tea.

Debians official packages can sometimes be a tad older since their ideology is stability over everything else.

A popular hypervisor distro proxmox uses Debian as the base for it’s great stability.

Honestly the best thing to do is just start trying things and don’t only rely on your own stuff until you have a good understanding.

Just get an old computer and install an os you want to learn, worst case you break it and reinstall.

I suggest proxmox since you can lean on community scripts and can backup and restore any containers pretty easily if needed.

But as with anything don’t go in expecting to be perfect, just get started, break some eggs and learn from mistakes. You will learn what you like about it, what you would change and you can burn it all down and start again if you want as well.

If you use tailscale you could pretty easily get similar results.

Tailscale to broker connections between devices and then access with the tailscale IP address

I to played the first one almost exclusively on the deck

I too have lifetime Emby and still use it today. Media browser renamed to Emby. They took the M and B from the old name to get the new one.

Here’s a very old flow chart I made for some folks that didn’t want to use Linux. Though it mostly applies to any serup

As a matrix user who is using the WhatsApp bridge. I’ll probably never see the ads anyways

This confuses me a bit, technically nextcloud is just a PHP script that only runs when you actually perform a page request.

If you don’t enable the Cron then it does even less than a normal install.

Top be fair it is hardware that is 8 years newer than the first switch.

Depending on what services you want to give access with, I have had great luck with an ultra cheap VPS

https://lowendbox.com/blog/1-vps-1-usd-vps-per-month/

Then I host my edge services on a container and use an ssh tunnel to the remote host which gives me an ipv4 and any port forward that I want.

For example I have my reverse proxy inside my network and my VPN server then I use a command like:

ssh -R 8080:localhost:80 public.example.com

Which would forward publicip:8080 to localhost:80

Read more here: https://www.ssh.com/academy/ssh/tunneling-example.

I use autossh to keep the tunnel alive at all times.

https://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/

This is an ultra cheap way to get any ports you want and self host the whole thing. The remote VPS also doesn’t get any extra access to your local network and doesn’t initiate the connection so it doesn’t have credentials for your local network

Really I think we are going to see an increase in jellyfin uptake given the changes which is great for that project

But if you don’t already have lifetime and are paying monthly or annually then that price is also almost doubling

https://www.energy-storage.news/worlds-largest-30mw-flywheel-energy-storage-project-connects-to-grid-in-china/

Things like this maybe? I haven’t seen any performance days but it’s a cool project

My suggestion is to migrate the server to the Java edition and use one of the projects that support plugins like paper or purpur.

After that install geysermc, floodgate, viaversion, and viabackwards plugins.

https://geysermc.org/download https://github.com/ViaVersion/ViaVersion https://github.com/ViaVersion/ViaBackwards

This lets people connect to the Java server from bedrock clients and it gives some flexibility in the specific version used to connect to the server.

This way you can use whatever official or questionable version of the Minecraft server client.

Migrating the world might require a special tool like chunker.

https://www.chunker.app/

Once your on the Java edition client all kinds of options open up for you in terms of plugins and options should you wish.

The geysermc plugin supports extensions as well one I recommend is:

https://github.com/MCXboxBroadcast/Broadcaster

This one let’s you add an Xbox friend that you can join from most bedrock clients super easily.