It comes via FedEx in Germany. And at your door they hand it to you and don’t need a signature. At least that what‘s was with my first package.

Had to get some replacement as my FW keyboards had a short. So the replacement was a bit more nerve wrecking. The driver came 3 times always when I am not at home. After 3 time FedEx contacted me via phone to schedule a new date for delivery. But I guess there was an overlap as the driver didn’t come. I already had requested to pick it up at their hub via e-mail so I guess the driver got cancelled after my mail was processed. And then I went to their hub when the notification mail came I can pick it up.

You basically need a router between the networks. I would recommend pfsense or opnsense or if you like cli vyOS. I run a pfsense that has my ISP router on the WAN port and a network interface for all VLANs and then I configured the firewall to allow specific traffic to specific devices in specific VLANs. For example my PC can reach the smart home controller website but no other device. And the samrthome devices only can reach the DNS in the ISP network (my kinda DMZ) and the router to reach the internet. And for every VLAN there are own rules where goes what communication.

You also can setup that on the managed switch which you would need for setting up VLANs.

2 days for most hosts as they had a kernel update. Other hosts about 30 days (no updates pending). And the winner is my core switch with 750 days up time.

I got one HGST with now almost 11 years. And some WD Reds with 9 to 10 years. They run now in a Helios 64 which I use to store DVD and BluRay backups before they get tagged correctly and moved to my Plex storage pool.

Windows bad. Linux good. BSD better.

For real though. Windows cost money, it uses a lot of resources. And Desktop Version is missing vital parts you might want to use on a windows server like Domain Controller, DHCP, Server, Web Server, Hyper-V. Etc.

Those reasons also have most running Limix or even BSD because they are pretty lightweight especially when used headless. Also as open source they are mostly free of cost. And when you virtualize on a free and open source Hypervisor like XCP-ng or Proxmox you can run way more smaller VMs than Windows VMs as they need more resources.

You shouldn’t look at the hardware but at the software. For what will you use the laptop? What Applications do you plan to use. Are there Mac specific things you plan to do. Or do you have windows specific tasks. Or even would Linux the best platform for you.

If price is not a factor the software that supports your daily work the best will should be the decider.

Batch 1 here. For me it took one day from payment to shipping confirmation. Maybe you are more to the end of the orders. Also here in Germany get ready for a ride with FedEx. Took me a week to get my package from them after they missed me at home by 5 minutes on their first try.

The Bill at the end of the year.

Depends on the support case you got. If it’s technical you have basically 24/7. I am in Germany but had once a hard drive failure in a server at 1am contacted technical support and it took about 30 minutes overall and the new drive was resilvering and the server back online. Takes a bit as the NOC needs to go to the data center and so on.

Best to contact support. And if power button isn’t light up check bot Keyboard connections if they are seated correctly and if there is no short. My first keyboard had a short and melted it’s connector. And on the way killed the rest of the mainboard too.

Also try to record the LED flashing. It’s a self test and the first 10 or so are components tested by the bios.

https://knowledgebase.frame.work/en_us/my-framework-laptop-intel-12th-gen-intel-core-is-not-powering-on-BJWtouV3q

This is for the 12th gen but the pattern is the same on AMD.

the assembly was no problem

I wish. Keyboard had a short. I didn’t notice it a first maybe it killed the mainboard too because despite it powering on and going through selftest without issue (except keyboard of course) no output on screen (only some flickering) and no external screen.

But must say support is great and fast and after some diagnosis got my replacement unit and keyboard. FedEx is s**t in germany though whis they would use some other parcel service.

$7.99 - you are lucky if that thing will even do USB3 on both ports. Let alone PD and Thunderbolt.

The problem is a lot of people here are beginners and have no real clue about network security. And opening a port is opening a door. If you have a bouncer that clears people beforehand then you can keep the door open. But you will still need to keep your bouncer trained so he can take care of people you don’t want. Same with software. Keep it updated and have security enhancements in place like 2FA and analysis tools like crowdsec or fail2ban. And the open port might not an issue at all.

But if you open a device like a NAS (cough QNAP cough) then you have a higher security risk.

TLDR; if you know what you are doing it might not have implications.

Moved on from compose ages ago. So should you.

As long as it is not reachable from any untrusted network like the Internet. It’s as safe as your home network is.

Nope. Plain old Almalinux and deploy my services with ansible. I don’t see benefits in the bloatware that any UI on a server is (for me).

And I know I will get hat for this from a part of the community but that’s just my humble opinion.

I run three piholes with gravity sync and have none of the problems you describe.

But pihole isn’t big magic it’s basically a dnsmasq with some management stuff around it. you could host a dnsmasq yourself and just fill the filter rules in the config file your self with ansible. The adliges are publicly available just get them with Ansible and parse them into a dnsmasq config template.

Here is an blog about it. https://alblue.bandlem.com/2020/05/using-dnsmasq.html

Maybe ask r/piracy. Not sure what this has to do with self hosting.

Mailcow is pretty good. They install fail2ban to protect all endpoints against attacks. And it’s pretty easy to setup and the documentation is pretty good.

Have a look at cloudflare tunnel. You still have vaultwarden in your lan but accessible from the world. No open ports needed.