Just so you’re aware, it is very noticeable that you also used AI to help write this post and its use of language can throw a lot of people off.

Not to detract from your project, which looks cool!

What are their complaints about Mattermost? That might help.

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That’s just not true in many cases. It can usually access your home directory.

Sort of. Headscale is an OSS component that replaces the SAAS Tailscale component but it’s not a full replacement. It’s still pretty dang good though.

Is there typically such a massive difference between using http://local_ip:3000 and https://speed.mydomain.com/?

Only if they resolve to different addresses.

Thanks for the laugh

Be aware that hardware access from a virtual machine(for an audio interface, for example) can be jittery or slow (latency), which might make it unusable for your purposes or not. You’ll have to find out.

Like that time they made their own Powershell imitation of curl? (before deciding it was an abomination and finally including stock curl, but not removing the old Powershell commandlet because of backwards compatibility so now curl and curl.exe are two different things and you’ll want the latter)

… You mean desktop.ini?

I would add: until it doesn’t.

All accurate, except the Microsoft one. Microsoft makes you pay for enterprise development tools, but not for libraries.

I have to ask, even though I’m afraid of the answer, exactly how many USB storage devices are you (planning on) hooking up to that poor machine?

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…