I use watchtower to auto update everything.
Anything that needs a specific version for compatibility (Postgres mostly) is pinned to the major release.
Stuff occasionally breaks, but I have backups for that reason (if you don’t, set that up now before anything else, they should be running daily at least and you should have 2 types of backup minimum).
Yes there’s always a chance corruption can happen from a hard power off, always keep reliable backups.
I would go with a managed Nextcloud provider, it’s such a pain to manage self hosting Nextcloud specifically.
Be extra vigilant with your backups though, free stuff always has a higher chance of weird stuff happening, once they just removed my VPS after my trial ended and told me to re-create it.
If they’re not portable how would I for example login to an account while on my Desktop, if I set up the passkey on my Phone?
Pixel 7a is pretty good. Cheap too now that they’re 2 generations old, around $330 new for an unlocked phone.
I think looking at business/enterprise models would give you the best luck, as some of them should use a PCIe Wifi/BT card so it can be easily upgraded, and you would be able to remove that.
Notebookcheck.net often has images of a teardown in their reviews where you can see if it has a removable wireless card.
Sounds like maybe a faulty battery failing early, it should be under warranty I’d imagine if it has only been a few months?
The battery health indicator could be wrong, does it still run as long as it used to?
Tailscale in my experience does not run as kernel mode wireguard so performance is not great, but maybe that’s changed.
Not sure about Netbird, but the Android app reviews are poor and it does not sound reliable.
Yeah this is why OpenVPN is better for roaming clients in most cases.
Sometimes you need a VM. They’re not overkill, just useful for different things.
Examples; Running Windows, Running OSX, Passing through hardware to use isolated from the host (PCIe devices, USB, etc), Linux guests where you need a full kernel and permissions (for example to run Docker without issues caused by being nested inside a container).
VMs don’t really have much more overhead than a container in most use cases too. For example a VM with debian installed uses about 30MB of RAM.
It would, but it would be a very small difference. Maybe 2-3% at most.
When you use it the browser pops up a window to select a device to connect, I’m not sure if the website can see anything until you actually pick a device and allow.
(possibly a problem of unrealistic perfectionism tbh).
Yes having working ethernet is definitely just an unrealistic expectation.
The sarcastic and rude responses to this post also show a major downside of Linux, asking for help with an issue on Linux often results in little actual help and lots of annoying responses.
Duplicati or BackRest and use any S3 compatible storage such as Backblaze B2, iDrive E2, Wasabi S3, etc…
I thought about an upgrade for a minute from my 3700X, but I realized none of the games I play or programs I use are demanding on CPU enough that it would make any real difference in my experience.
Games have kind of stalled out for me too, I haven’t played a AAA game in years it feels like, and the other games I do play are not that demanding on modern hardware.
I would also need to upgrade to DDR5 RAM which is just more cost for a marginal upgrade.
Basically all email is E2EE already since SSL/TLS is usually used for transport, even gmail and similar. But encrypted at rest in theory would help with stopping people from reading emails off the server.
You also have to trust that Proton truly doesn’t have your keys to decrypt, but I imagine they do since you just login with a username/password combo and that’s enough to decrypt the emails.
Although I don’t think it matters that much, my email is basically receiving notifications from services I use and occasional emails with a friend about planning a trip or something like that, nothing that particularly needs to be super private, just using a mail provider that isn’t actively scraping my data for ads (aka; gmail) is enough for me.
For private communications I would use something more suited to that, like any of the reasonable E2EE chat apps.
Sure:
Proxmox backs up all my VMs/CTs nightly to the proxmox backup server I run as a VM with an external HDD attached to it. This keeps around 30 versions with a retention policy so I can go back pretty far if needed. These are full bootable images and include everything.
Restic (using Backrest to manage it), runs on any VMs/CTs with critical data, and backs up to Backblaze B2 every night as well, this is a more limited choice of the critical files that I’d need. Similar retention policy as the proxmox backup.
With both I try and do some full restores every month or two and test things out.