Proxmox is good as a host OS, you’ll set up a VM for docker and run your stuff in that.

It has a built in backup system to image your VMs and Containers, you can combine it with Proxmox Backup Server either in a VM or on another system for incremental backups and deduplication.

As far as Nextcloud goes I’m not surprised you had issues, their setup is weird, non-standard and very unstable in my experience. I switched to Syncthing long ago and it’s so much better.

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.

I would love to know too, it seems like every month for at least a year now I read that “the new Firefox release blocks third party cookies”

I just wish it had normal top bar tabs (or maybe it does and I haven’t found the option), because I love the overall style, but vertical tabs take up too much space after widening the side bar enough to see the tab names easily.

Who’s going to develop security and feature updates for it? The Librewolf devs certainly won’t have the man power.

It’s just a patch on top of Firefox.

Maybe Intel AMT running? I’m not sure it can be disabled though.

It’s just WIN + Spacebar, or click the keyboard layout icon in the taskbar.

More options is good.

Many people use laptops and use other wifi networks or tether to their phone, both can expose you because of unknown firewall states or IPv6 being used.

By default it should be configured to allow all outgoing, and block all incoming. That’s perfectly fine for a desktop/laptop and you don’t need to mess with it.

You can’t really do that much outgoing filtering with a firewall that will be useful, because basically everything operates on port 80/443, and often connects to the same CDNs or datacenter IPs for multiple services.

Instead DNS blocking is a much more effective way to handle it, plus uBlock Origin in your browser.

Migrate PWs to bitwarden first.

Then you can use Firefox Sync if you want to sync data between the browsers.

Or just do a one-time bookmarks export and import if you don’t want to use sync.

Immich has been great, I’ve been running it for something like 1.5 years now I think.

I love that they clearly say that. IMO they should keep that notice around even later on.

Far too many people spin up some solution for photos or files, either selfhosted or some paid service, and use it as their only storage. Then they’re surprised when data loss happens.

Firefox lets you make shortcuts that appear on your new tab (home) page in the browser, that might be a good option since they’ll open in the browser and not as a PWA.

It would, but it would be a very small difference. Maybe 2-3% at most.

Yeah it would be nice to have grouped notifications, where it only makes a new one every X minutes and just groups the rest for later.

Torrents work by someone directly connecting to your computer, that’s what happens when you download and seed a torrent after.

So the whole time you’re doing anything with torrents, hundreds/thousands of other computers are connecting to yours to make that work.

It’s a very old game, from before DX12 existed.

No but people use it because it’s pleasant and easy to use with a nice UI, lots of features for stickers and sharing content, etc…

Having encryption and being ‘secure’ is not what will get most people to switch from Discord and Telegram, having the same features and doing it even better will.