11-12 should be well tested. 12-13 should be well tested. 11-13 may work, but you may be the tester.

I’d step through one at a time.

Bummer. You could get a cheap IoT light bulb/smart plug and ping it in a script, when it times out, start the shutdown. Could be a fun project.

Some (most?) UPSs have a way for them to communicate to the PC so that the PC can automatically cleanly shutdown. You should look into that if its available on your UPS.

Yeah, it prevents booting on that motherboard, but they can just yank your disks and boot it on another motherboard.

Normally, a good bios password implementation shouldn’t reset with CMOS battery, but for yours it seems it does.

Bios passwords dont provide security at all. At most, mild theft prevention (that is trivially bypassed). If you want security, disk encryption is what you want.

Replace your CMOS battery, NTP is good to, but you really don’t want your CMOS freaking out.

Whats your goal? Your current network works presumably, what are you trying to achieve by upgrading? Faster network? Reliability? Expansion options?

Probably best to get a count of both, and I’ll check back in a week. :)

They are very intense tools, certainly gives me the sweats when I have to use mine. Use clamps where possible.

How many fingers do you have? :)

Ctrl-alt-Fnumber until you get to a tty shell. Login, run journalctl - f. Ctrl-alt-Fnumber until you get back to login screen, and login. Go back to tty and see what errors got logged.

If you have ssh enabled you can also ssh in and run the journalctl cmd. You’ll have to try different F number keys, I dont remember which ones get you a tty and which gets you the login. Start at F1 and move across, but wait a bit, sometimes it can take a while to spawn the TTY.

Conceptually, not a problem. Windows 11 runs on top of HyperV with no performance issues. In reality, I think you will spend a lot of time, hit lots of weird edge cases and performance issues, especially with trying to get the Linux and windows hosts to coexist nicely.

That said, I’d love to watch you try :)

https://www.rancher.com/ - If you want a pure docker OS.

But really, almost all of the mainstream OS’s will run docker just fine. Pick the one you are comfortable with.

As you’ve described it, and from what I have read, its very similar to how tailscale negotiates its connections.

Does seem to be unique to Plex though.

I get how that could work, but what services actually do that? Homeassistant can, but that needs to be setup explicitly for it to work.

How does that work? Do they do something like what tailscale does to negotiate the connection? Can you point me to any doco for how that works?

I dont know that that is true. With cloudflare tunnels, their server.x.y.z will resolve to a cloudlfare IP address, which then tunnels it to their server? The traffic has to hit the cloudflare server, it can’t short circuit that connection? Am I missing something?

I would assume yes, it goes out to cloudflare and back in. You want to setup an internal DNS server on your network, and resolve your servers address to its local one. That way when your outside your network, you use the tunnel, and inside it goes direct.

1. You can’t receive those emails anymore.

2. Someone else can.

None that im aware of. There are webscrapers, and I guess you could just webscrape and dump the results into a postgres db and use it to index. But I’m guessing you’ll eventually want something more tuned/custom? But even if it existed, there is the discovery problem. How do you find the sites to scrape? Bing and google both let site operators submit urls, but that isn’t gonna scale to self-hosting.

Self hosting search engines is very hard. The scraping, indexing and storage requirements are immense. You could definitely self-host a front end (with your QoL improvements), but the back end search engines (Bing/Google/etc) will be able to track you all the same.

Odd that the disk didn’t show up in the list there. If there are other options near CMS maybe have a play with them?

Another option to checkout is to disable secure boot?