I think the issue is consistency. Not making everything look the same, but have a common design language.

I use Wireguard, so when I am outside, connected to my VPN, I use the internal DNS (pihole) for accessing internal network services using their fqdn.

Like other people suggested here, use opnsense instead of pfsense, and wireguard instead of openvpn. What I did for my homelab was to get a used HP t620 thinclient and an Intel 350 card with 2x 1gbps ports. You say you have 10gbps, so you would need a card that can handle that, and maybe a beefier CPU. For my setup, this tiny 65€ machine is not even feeling it. Single digit cpu usage for 2 wireguard connections, a little over 1GB RAM usage for a handful of services. I think for you an n100 with 4gb of ram is more than enough, but going for 8gb will be better and it will not be much more expensive.

:| gosh… I’ll go back to edit it.

For live monitoring (not offline!), maybe dozzle can help?

I know about pbs, I even have an IP set aside for it :) I do have the built-in proxmox backup function take nightly snapshots or my important vms to my nas, but I don’t have anything really put together. Also, nothing for my nas itself. It is configured in a raid 5, but as we all know, raid is not backup :)

One day, after I am done with [insert reason here], I will have a bad ass, well thought out backup solution.

My backup concept is on the to-do list. Been there for a couple years. I do have triple pihole/caddy/haproxy/redis for high availability on a triple node proxmox cluster! necessary? no. cool, though? heck yeah! friends and family impressed? uhm… what was the question?

So did I, and a lot of people I grew up with. Cartoon Network, Discovery Channel and later on, the Internet.

My teenage kids are fluent as well, and that’s almost all of it from watching media. First cartoons and movies (I keep all my streaming services in the native language, and most of them are in English), and now… YouTube.

I use the reporting tools on my opnsense box.

I mean, PZ has been in alpha/beta state for so many years… What does stable even mean at this point :)

 igb0  /  yearly

         year        rx      |     tx      |    total    |   avg. rate
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
          2023     33.97 TiB |   22.90 TiB |   56.87 TiB |   15.86 Mbit/s
          2024    110.69 TiB |   32.26 TiB |  142.95 TiB |   39.76 Mbit/s
          2025     22.20 GiB |    7.14 GiB |   29.34 GiB |    4.35 Mbit/s
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------

Project Zomboid. B42 is out!

Just a thought, but instead of a full windows install / live USB - what about a freedos live USB? You should be able to run exe files from there (assuming the bios exe does not need any GUI libraries).

I’m actually doing the opposite :)

I’ve been using vms, lxc containers and docker for years. In the last 3 years or so, I’ve slowly moved to just docker containers. I still have a few vms, of course, but they only run docker :)

Containers are a breeze to update, there is no dependency hell, no separate vms for each app…

More recently, I’ve been trying out kubernetes. Mostly to learn and experiment, since I use it at work.

What do you mean it’s hard to update containers?

How do you get the data on to the cloud storage? Maybe use something like restic, which can handle encryption, snapshots, etc.

Yup. I’m in a similar situation. I work from home and vape in my office. I do it non-stop… I lowered the nic concentration as much as possible, but still, it’s a lot. It’s too convenient. Better than cigarettes though.

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I read somewhere that certain places have a very large amount of people with lactose intolerance, like north America. I used to drink raw milk, straight from the bucket my grandma used to milk the cow. Never had any issues. Grew up on a farm in Romania in the 80s.

Also, mici.