I think it was SuSE 5.1, we’re talking 1997. We got a CD at a show but I can’t remember which or where.

For the Aoostar I got the 19V version of “UPS Battery Backup, 24000 mAh Intelligent Compact UPS with High Security for Modem (19V)” from Amazon,

and got the exact same in 12V for my router/modem

I’ve been running my Aoostar R1 for over a year now, no issue at all. ~14W at idle with the 2HDD in standby. 32G RAM, a low power SK hynix Gold P31 1TB NVME. I’ve re-used the pair of 14TB HDDs from my WD NAS and recently got a pair of 12TB refurbished HDD for ca 240€ to use the old WD NAS as a backup. I run Proxmox with a bunch of LXC containers (12 mostly) of which a pair of pi-hole, pair of VPN/hardened SSH, fileserver, home automation, Logitech media server, Jellyfin etc etc etc The R1 is not that noisy, never crashed once, does not heat up and is powered through a 88.8Wh mini UPS.

Proxmox with Debian LXC containers. The most natural transition from Raspberry Pi OS which is a Debian flavor

We’re using it to access the LAN and the two pihole instances within

I’m not convinced it will help with the crazy invasive ads served in random free android games 😅 But I’ll look into it, thanks

We’re on holidays and the kids had me install WireGuard on their devices to get rid of the ads, you know, like it is at home.

Un-smarting our home is indeed my current concern if I would pass suddenly. It’s mostly usable manually but most switches would continually try to connect to WiFi and mqtt. I rather hope have my teenager son be able to take over if need be. My passwords could be accessed by my wife anytime but I’m not sure she realises it, it would be to be documented.

For me it’s like riding a bike, I’ve probably been using Norton Commander since I was 10. DOS 3.3, Windows 2 was just a gimmick.

mcedit for life