No. People who want the benefit of self housing without worrying about hardware will rent a vps or something simpler. The hard part of hardware isn’t the purchase, it’s the maintenance.

Also, why the separate router?

Funnily enough, the reason they switched to those was to use the data to train machine learning (AI) models, just like Google’s recaptcha was originally pictures of words from old, scanned books so they could transcribe all of them “for free” and train their transcription algorithms.

Have you passed their captive portal before turning on the VPN?

Wonder why they wouldn’t use OSM.

It’s alright. I use both their desktop backup service and B2 extensively. Their desktop client and web interface is very basic and a bit rough, you don’t buy their service for the well-developed UI. The service works as advertised though.

The headache comes up when multiple third party repositories start conflicting with each other

Which is traditionally why you needed the distro to package your software…

So you’re always behind, patching up small bits of code that don’t comply with your guidelines, while letting big changes with, by deduction, worse code quality through?

Depends on why you want to hide your server ip, what’s your use case? Is it to protect against DDOS?

Cloudflare is evil, but is there any other party you would trust to share everything with?

Don’t worry, it’s fine, there’s nothing inherently wrong with running stateful workload in a container.

You should really back that up with arguments as I don’t think a lot of people would agree with you.

Somehow it took this look back to make me realize that considering to spend 2000 dollars on a GPU is insane. I’m actually on a GTX 1080 now and I’ll try to stick with it for as long as it’s practical.

… Those LLM and SD urges still lurk though…

You’re not entirely clear on whether you want these services accessible from the internet or just internally. If the latter, change ACME settings to use DNS challenges instead of HTTP. If the former, recheck your dns records, maybe post them here (censored if you wish).

They might have been required to, under the terms they negotiated.

I’d think they’d be happy to exit windows

Well, you didn’t specify that requirement in your post.