For me its been wireguard with split tunnel but that had a glaring issue with my home IP change (running 2 Pi-hole+unbound instances on separate network segments and hardware). Some time ago I switched to tailscale and added a Pi-hole on a VPS. Closed system, nothing exposed to the wide internet, works 99.99…% of the time, whole family protected against low hanging fruit attacks and adds.

He clearly lost control of his vehicle.

Nginx from day one. Well documented, it works. If something doesn’t work chances are you are a quick googlefu away from the solution.

This has been working for me for ages:

-f "bestvideo[height<=1080][dynamic_range=SDR]

Went all in with UniFi some time back. No regrets.

Currently running a few U6s. No real motivation to upgrade to U7s.

Thing is - “mini” PCs old enough to have 3.5 slots are probably way too old to have decent CPUs.

I’ve been using Zabbix for ages now. It has issues but I got used to it.

I would suggest looking into TiniMiniMicro project.

And considering ProxMox as a platform. It will save you your nerves so much. Spin up a VM/LXC in a few seconds, play with it, delete it. Make a snapshot before update, if something fails - revert back. I’ve tried so many new projects because of how easy it is to do it.

https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimicro-home-lab-revolution/

https://www.learnlinux.tv/proxmox-full-course/

https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/

https://www.learnlinux.tv/easy-portainer-setup-run-your-first-docker-container/

This should keep you busy for some time. ;- ) =

Everything is complicated, till it isn’t any more.

FreshRSS with Full-Text RSS behind it, when needed. Web on desktop, Lire on iOS.

I would suggest 2 pi-hole + unbound stacks on different hardware, preferably on different switches. That way you can restart/fiddle with things without your family going crazy about “internet not working”.

Actual.

Tried most of them about a year ago and then it was best for my needs. Situation could be different now but for me Actual still works great.

YMMV

FreshRSS directly on desktop with Full-Text RSS. And Lire on iOS.

Actual has been working fine for me. Supports all the family’s banks and credit cards I import manually.

Tried a few, settled on Pairdrop for myself.

I have ddns on Cloudflare. It works great, until your home IP changes. After that wireguard will happily hammer the old IP, till something breaks the tunnel and it reestablishes it to the new IP. Working as intended. My workaround was forcing the IP change over night while everyone was home.

Tailscale sorts all the issues I had.

Ask any of the people he axed.

Yes BUT while booting from SSD. Anything write/read intensive will shred your SD card in a matter of months.

CE FTW

I’ve been using Zabbix for years now. Does what I need it to do.