I wouldn’t even want to pirate it. I like LibreOffice a lot better.

It’s not really worth the trouble to try to host your own e-mail. There are lots of e-mail hosts that you can use with your own domain. A few of them are free and there are plenty of low cost ones. As long as you use your own domain, you can switch hosts whenever you want and keep your addresses.

Syncthing and Nextcloud are both FOSS. You don’t need to sign up for anything.

That motherboard has a very limited number of PCIe lanes. Using the second m.2 slot will slow down the second GPU. All of the other slots are coming from the chipset and are only PCIe 2.0.

I would get rid of the second GPU, then there would be enough lanes to run 3 SSDs at PCIe 3.0 x4.

I rarely go over 1TB per month at home. It’s usually closer to 500GB. My seedbox goes through several TB per month with all of those Linux ISOs though.

Have you tried using a different DNS server? The one you’re using could be blocking it. Try using DNS over HTTPS.

I use global addresses for everything. ULA is the equivalent of the private networks like 10.0.0.0/8 on IPv4. It doesn’t need a static IP. ULA will work without any internet connection. If you run an IPv6 only network, it would be a good idea to set up ULA so you can access your local devices if the internet goes down.

I only use SLAAC on my network because DHCPv6 is not well supported. My router does use DHCPv6 to get a prefix from the ISP though.

The router running OpenWRT will usually be a lot less power hungry than a mini PC, ethernet switch and access point.

It looks like the fix is just disabling the algif_aead kernel module. That prevented the proof of concept script from working on everything I tested it on. Hopefully they will get some kernel updates out soon.

An extension cord running to another room would be enough if the minor electrical work only needs a circuit to be switched off.

The UPS will keep it running long enough to switch to another power source.

Now you can just buy a CH341 dongle and clip it onto the BIOS flash chip if you need to unbrick the motherboard. It’s easy as long as the motherboard uses an SOIC or DIP flash chip.

That idle power consumption doesn’t seem right. That’s less than a Raspberry Pi.

That’s why I said to use a component video adapter. It’s an analog signal that has nothing to do with HDMI.

Attach a DP to component video adapter to the TV.

You could get a Hetzner storage box. They have unlimited traffic, but only allow 10 simultaneous connections.

One of the better free options is FreeDNS, but you are limited to 5 records.

If you want your own domain, I would suggest Porkbun. They have an API that can be used for dynamic DNS.

You can use stunnel to make your VPN look like HTTPS.

Most ISPs have remote access to their modems. You should use your own if possible. If you can’t, then put it in bridge mode and connect your own router to it.

OPNsense doesn’t officially support ARM. You need an x86 PC for it unless you want to mess with an experimental build.

OpenWRT does support the Raspberry Pi though. You will want the Pi 5 for that since it has PCIe to connect an ethernet card to.