Yeah I know, I use Gluetun now, I was just answering OPs question.

I ran a Linux VM and just had Mullvad app installed and always on, and that was all I needed

Yes

Plex was easy enough to set up. I use plexamp on my phone but can access the Plex server via a browser, which includes my music

Yeah I mean I get it because I was also thinking about self hosting for a long time and had a bunch of questions myself.

The problem is that a lot of the questions were not needed, and a bunch of the other questions I answered myself by just tooling around with the stuff.

Great comment btw, it’s a good idea to have a list of the services you’d like to run, in order of importance z then work through it.

I did that then found ways to combine a bunch of services, to the point where I had multiple stand alone VMs that are now just one for Home Assistant and second for Plex and Docker

I see a lot of posts like this and it’s always people overthinking something they haven’t tried to do yet.

So my advice is to just do it.

You may lose everything at some point in the future, Satan knows I have a few times, but because you’ve actually done it, you can do it again.

Now, because you’re just thinking about doing it, it seems like a massive deal because you’ve not gone out and done it yet.

As for recommendations, I use a Proxmox VM with Debian and Docker. My Proxmox does backups, but my Docker compose is also a text document on my PC so I can recreate it all from scratch from that. I also have an idea what I did when I was learning how to do it, and have retained a good bit of that info so I could probably do it without either the backups or the Docker Compose, it would just take longer.

Just do it

Commenting just to add “nofail” to the fstab.

I didn’t do this in Proxmox and then the drive stopped working and so did Proxmox. As a noob I ended up starting fresh and losing lots.

After adding nofail the services start up, just without the NAS attached. Without nofail it just doesn’t boot.

Nofail for the win

Just Google “Booting a pi from an SSD” and follow the steps

I can’t remember the steps (they were simple though) but when my Home Assistant raspi SD card died, I bought a 128gb SSD from AliExpress and a usb-sata cable.

I then did something to the pi that meant it can boot from the SSD, and flashed the SSD using Balenetcher or RUFUS or whatever (same program I was using to flash my SD cards basically).

Then it was just a case of plugging in and turning it on.

Runs exactly the same as with an SD card with less dying because SD cards aren’t meant for a lot of read/write but SSDs do.

When I die my friends will miss me like usual. Then the Plex server will go down and they’ll miss me all over again.

I don’t know why you were downvoted for this, you’re right and I figured this out for myself last night when I decided to try figure it out at 1.30am after 3 beers.

I managed to get all my port 80 stuff sorted but my Arr stack for example needs something more, probably the dreaded nginx…

I’m having a look at Caddy now because I’ve never used it before, Nginx I didn’t like when I used it and I’ve recently heard the original developer has left the project and started a new one.

Excellent news, at least I know where to start now. I wanna play with all the network things and learn, but I also wanna just have it sorted in 5 minutes of hacking

I have a Tornado just sitting in my basket going “BUY ME, BUY ME!” but I’ve only just yesterday got a sub 40 second solve so it’s staying there. Plus I’m broke.

I couldn’t give away my RS3M, it’s my baby ATM.

I’ve been eyeballing the Tornado V3 Flagship myself. I do the cross on the bottom, but advanced f2l means adding the f2l while doing the cross and I’m not that good yet. I feel like this week I’ve just started getting a real feel for pairing up the blocks, and that’s lead to quicker solves. It’ll be a few more weeks of practicing to get it intuitive but I’m definitely on the right path.

See the icebergs?

Yeah magnetic cubes!

They have little magnets in the corner pieces so when you push, it stops in the right place.

There’s also maglev cubes that have magnetic cores. I just have corner magnets ATM because EVRI ARE A DOGSHIT DELIVERY COMPANY but that’s another story for another time

I’m 39 and right there with you, although I can’t seem to get under 80 seconds for a solve yet. I’ve been cubing for a couple of months and have got the 2 look pll and oll down nearly now, just a couple of algorithms I’m struggling to remember. Love doing the last layer though, it’s like magic.

I’m at a point now where I’m solving faster than I was (it was around the 3 minute mark a couple of weeks ago but I’ve just got a RS3M) and it is starting to feel “easy” now.

I also have one in my pocket most of the time, it’s another hobby my wife hates lol “Do you HAVE to bring that thing with you?” YES I DO

When you look up how to solve them, it’s a white cross (so the white would be the first layer), making sure your middle tile of the cross pieces match the middle of the sides (red green blue orange), then you put the corners of the bottom (white) layer in, matching the colours. The middles don’t move so you then put in the corners of the middle layer, completing 2 layers.

The top layer is the yellow one, opposite the white layer.

It was my eldest that got me going actually. He came home from school with the old shit cube he had, did 3 turns on it and said “There, I solved it Dad.”

I said “Did you fuck. Who sorted that for you?” and he told me a kid at school was just asking everyone if they had a cube and to bring it in to school, so he did and the kid solved it for him.

I thought “If a 12 year old can do it, so can I” and used it to help with my Reddit withdrawals.

I’ve finally got a magnetic cube now and just have it in my pocket. I’m trying to improve my F2L speed where you put the corners in and the 2nd layer at the same time. I really like doing the last layer with algorithms, it’s like magic.

Yeah it just goes to show that hobbies are like icebergs.

I picked up a guitar in Covid and managed to learn basic chords and songs in the first year of playing it every single day. I’m 4 years in now, and I feel less advanced than I felt back then.

I think it’s because when you’re learning a new technique, you fucking suck at it, but when it’s in counterpoint to other techniques that you can do to a high level, it sounds worse than just one technique being played badly, plus you’ve trained your ears over the time you’ve been playing, so you can hear the bad bits better.

Guitarists that have been playing for decades have more of these techniques down so they sound better, but that’s just to people who have struggled with those techniques themselves. To the uninitiated guitarists are just guitarists, some play country and some do that wiggly wiggly guitar solo thing.

Guitar playing is an Iceberg with a big bit sticking up, chess and rubix cubes are smaller icebergs, but you’ve got to mine it all the way down before you can climb to the top.