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.

Exactly why I run LMDE and not LM.

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.

Was your USR a courier or sportster? In my experience the couriers had better success connecting and operating at 48000+bps

Run, Morty! EVERYTHING is on a cob!

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

To me, Dollhouse always had a bit of a predatory vibe about it. It almost felt like a “hey, want to know what it feels like to watch a snuff film” vibe…and I don’t mean videos of people simply dying.

The other big 3, Buffy, Angel, Firefly, all felt pretty good to me. Progressive for the time.

Has been for a very long time. I quit watching his video after I saw him post a thing that was going on and on about the superiority of the product in his left hand over the right, and how much faster it was and blah blah blah.
Both products were bandwidth limited by the PCI bus and there was no advantage to the expensive one he was hawking.

Correct.

To be fair, most hos don’t write code worth keeping.

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

So…Skyrim?

My layman’s understanding is that the water mostly makes up for it, and that more wobble comes from the moon than any inconsistency in land-mass distribution

No, I was thinking BD or BPAD, aka bipolar disorder. I’ve got ADHD and while I can be jazzed to do something, doing it doesn’t drain me. Not doing it does.

I have a friend who has ADHD and BPAD, and they definitely get jazzed up and will have a flurry of activity, then crash to the point they can’t get out of bed for a day.