If you want to be very sad or maybe inspired, spiritfarer was excellent. The two Oris are great time sinks. Horizon Zero Dawn ran fine on my deck but chews battery life.

Then you’ll need to factor in the solar initial cost as well!

BirdNet Pi!

https://github.com/Nachtzuster/BirdNET-Pi

I’m confused, do you have an example of a laptop that uses numbers for their model number iteration rather than their screen size or feature set?

Yes but you can get two free instances under the same account.

Actually you can get 2 IPs for free. Then use high availability

I use ZeroTier on a MikroTik router.

Then just advertise routes on the router.

Ionos.de has a €1 a month VPS

I think 1 core, 1gb ram, and 10gb.

Use either caddy or Nginx proxy manager. Both are easy to setup. Also both are dockerized.

I use Tailscale as my tunnel.

Total latency is about 70-90ms for me.

My friend has 1G/1G Internet. I have a rsync cron job backing up there 2 times a week.

It has a 8TB NVMe drive that I use bulk data backup and a 2TB os drive for VM stuff.

I use adguard home in conjunction with NextDNS.

I find adguard a little better in the UI department. Have it in a docker container so it’s a set and forget.

Yeah there’s no foolproof way to do a general upgrade. Wiping is the easiest way to bypass the tpm requirement.

If you absolutely must use windows

Download the Pro ISO from windows.

Use MicroWin to create an iso without tpm requirements and with offline installation

Use MAS and use only the Enterprise edition. You might need to upgrade to Professional first.

Then use WindowsDebloater to tailor it to your liking.

RouterOS has WG built in as well as ZeroTier. RouterOS has become quite powerful lately, but make sure you have at least an ARM/ARM64 CPU for it.

All of my remote routers are running RouterOS without anything on top of it. RouterOS is powerful enough for anything I throw on it. But I am using much beefier routers, I have 2 x 5009 and a HAP AX3 which have plenty of flash and ram ro run the additional packages I need.

As for normal computers, I have it on a UPS and I backup core files to off-site areas. Additionally, I buy SSDs that have a little bit of powerloss protection.

I’ve never had issues with mini PCs but I’ve had issues with PIs. I’ve since switched to high endurance SD cards for my Pis and they’ve been rock solid. One’s actually semi exposed to the elements for about a year now without a hiccup.

With RouterOS you can still use DoH with either a self hosted list or a selected ad list. If you want to selfhost a DNS server I’d just host a Adguard Home instance on a VPS for all of your devices.

I also have 2 VPN system for my remote management on 2 separate systems. I learned that the hard way when one of my clients is 8 timezones away.

My ISP blocks all outgoing ports. Maybe I’m not trying hard enough but anything I try port forwarding ends up getting blocked.

Minecraft and port 80 are the 2 I’ve tried and they’ve been unresponsive

A lot are moving through software defined networking which runs at RAM speeds.

But typically responsiveness is quite important in a virtualized environment.

InfiniBand could run theoretically at 2400gbps which is 300GB/s.

I travel on the go often, wireless charging is too inefficient for me. I’d rather charge with my PD battery pack.

Another point, I use my PD pack to charge everything from my phone, drone, camera, to my laptop, ear buds.

Most of those don’t have a wireless charger so I just stick to wired PD charging.

I’m using the rb5009 but im using RouterOS not openwrt. Any reason why you’d want to do that?

I personally think if you’re buying a purpose built hardware and then putting your own software on it, you should move to a mini computer with OpnSense.

I’m switching my immich instance to an SSD one and switching my VPN from zerotier to tailscale.

Hopefully that means my Immich will be a little more reactive.

No with the latest ISO from windows 24H2 I believe