Nope, I had no school option, and no lake or river around home where I could learn. I went with my parents to the seaside a few days every year, but my dad didn’t teach me. When I had kids of my own, it was on the “must” list: teach to ride bike, make sure they can swim.

Check out crowdsec. Like fail2ban, but with crowdsourced lists on top.

I did not know about opencloud.eu, and now I’m intrigued. I was always looking for a simple Google Drive alternative, but Nextcloud was too much. Will definitely keep an eye on it.

Got a .cc for my home-lab, and a very cheap .li for a website I’m building. Other than that i got .de, .eu and .com for my name and my kids names. Don’t know if they’ll ever use them, but meh, a .de is a few cents per month.

Mid 20s? You’re barely out of your teenage years, of course you can. Now if anyone has some tips for mid 40s…

I use Wireguard, so when I am outside, connected to my VPN, I use the internal DNS (pihole) for accessing internal network services using their fqdn.

Like other people suggested here, use opnsense instead of pfsense, and wireguard instead of openvpn. What I did for my homelab was to get a used HP t620 thinclient and an Intel 350 card with 2x 1gbps ports. You say you have 10gbps, so you would need a card that can handle that, and maybe a beefier CPU. For my setup, this tiny 65€ machine is not even feeling it. Single digit cpu usage for 2 wireguard connections, a little over 1GB RAM usage for a handful of services. I think for you an n100 with 4gb of ram is more than enough, but going for 8gb will be better and it will not be much more expensive.

:| gosh… I’ll go back to edit it.

For live monitoring (not offline!), maybe dozzle can help?

I know about pbs, I even have an IP set aside for it :) I do have the built-in proxmox backup function take nightly snapshots or my important vms to my nas, but I don’t have anything really put together. Also, nothing for my nas itself. It is configured in a raid 5, but as we all know, raid is not backup :)

One day, after I am done with [insert reason here], I will have a bad ass, well thought out backup solution.

My backup concept is on the to-do list. Been there for a couple years. I do have triple pihole/caddy/haproxy/redis for high availability on a triple node proxmox cluster! necessary? no. cool, though? heck yeah! friends and family impressed? uhm… what was the question?

I use the reporting tools on my opnsense box.

I mean, PZ has been in alpha/beta state for so many years… What does stable even mean at this point :)

 igb0  /  yearly

         year        rx      |     tx      |    total    |   avg. rate
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
          2023     33.97 TiB |   22.90 TiB |   56.87 TiB |   15.86 Mbit/s
          2024    110.69 TiB |   32.26 TiB |  142.95 TiB |   39.76 Mbit/s
          2025     22.20 GiB |    7.14 GiB |   29.34 GiB |    4.35 Mbit/s
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------

Project Zomboid. B42 is out!

I’m actually doing the opposite :)

I’ve been using vms, lxc containers and docker for years. In the last 3 years or so, I’ve slowly moved to just docker containers. I still have a few vms, of course, but they only run docker :)

Containers are a breeze to update, there is no dependency hell, no separate vms for each app…

More recently, I’ve been trying out kubernetes. Mostly to learn and experiment, since I use it at work.

What do you mean it’s hard to update containers?

How many of these are easily treatable today?

I… guess? I don’t know how I would classify these games. But they all are able to steal from me 8h in a day, no issue :)

Project Zomboid, Rimworl, Dwarf Fortress, Stellaris, Starsector…