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I run Proxmox on my router (an Intel NUC) with an OpenWRT VM (though I used to run OPNSense, and might try going back to it later). It makes things more complicated, but I’m familiar enough with Proxmox that I’m okay with that complexity.

Setup right, I don’t think you’d experience any performance hit in terms of your network, and your 8th gen i7 is likely better than my Celeron J4025, so I imagine your Web UIs will be fast enough even virtualized.

I virtualized my router because it let me experiment with different router options way more easily (I could switch from OPNSense to OpenWRT and fall back on my old OPNSense VM if I messed anything up, I could setup VLANs in a cloned VM and fallback to my old VM if I couldn’t get it working, etc.). I’m a very indecisive person loll. But if there’s no reason for you to virtualize it, then I wouldn’t bother unless you just want to.

I vaguely remember my Intel NIC gave problems with OPNSense, but running virtualized meant I could use Linux drivers (via Proxmox) and give OPNSense a VirtIO NIC that it would be happy with. Oh, and it’s nice being able to run the Unifi Web Server in an LXC on the router so it doesn’t go down whenever I mess with my server PC.

Personally, I only run network-specific things on my Proxmox instance on the router (so, OpenWRT/OPNSense, and the Unifi Web Server). My more home-lab stuff is run on a completely separate machine. Like others have said, I don’t want my internet to go down when I mess with my server.

If you do end up virtualizing ur router, in my personal experience using VirtIO network devices for the VM seems to work best for me (the E1000 seemed to hamper my upload/download speeds quite a bit, VirtIO made it pretty much line-speed — that could just be OpenWRT quirks or my NIC, idk).

Touché.

Me and my 100GB of ‘Linux ISOs’:

I prefer buying CDs for music & physical games for my consoles when I can (physical games on PC is kind of a distant dream now…). For TV, I think the only option to actually own your media is through BluRay/DVD. The digital stores (like Amazon, Vudu i think?) only let you watch on their platform & don’t give you any files.

I do have a small number of vinyls & cassettes, but that’s more for novelty than any practicality.

13 Numb.mp3.exe

I feel like heavy metal would be like biting into a gumball and realizing it’s a jawbreaker/gobstopper.

(Love the genre; just thought this description was funny)

Sure does, if your motherboard plays nicely with it.

Personally, my acer laptop doesn’t; if it goes into sleep mode, I have to hard-reset it to get it working again.

Joplin with sync via Nextcloud. It has other options though, you don’t have to spin up Nextcloud just for it.

Spotify links cuz I’m lazy — not in any particular order:

• Architects - “Spit the Bone”
• Chaosbay - “New Age” Do take a listen to the whole album if you like this song. It’s a concept album and the music really flows quite well from track to track.
• Beartooth - “Below”
• Beartooth - “In Between”
• Ice Nine Kills - “The American Nightmare” This band’s interesting, in that their last two albums’ tracks are all inspired from/are about various horror movies.
• While She Sleeps - “Sleeps Society”
• Periphery - “Wax Wings”
• Bury Tomorrow - “Begin Again”
• Everture - “Empire”
• Dark Tranquility - “Eyes of the World”
• Countless Skies - “Tempest”
• Shylmagoghnar - “Transience”

Crashed for me, seemingly as it was loading the top image as the second image loaded in fine. (LG G8 (not G8X, etc.), Android 11, Boost 1.0.4)

There’s a concept called Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (seemingly coined, in that form, in a Microsoft antitrust lawsuit). Here’s the Wikipedia page on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

As I understand, people argue that Facebook/Meta, via Threads, will use this strategy in the long-term to either kill, or make effecitvely obsolete, the open technology behind Mastodon. If not that, then they could easily make the federation part of Threads buggy & unreliable, souring their users’ opinions on the “fediverse”.

They don’t need to control anyone; they only need to host a majority of the userbase (by being the most popular federated site). And they’re not starting from a user count of 1 or 10, unlike a lot of Mastodon sites.

Obviously, Mastodon & Lemmy, and the sites that run them, can keep chugging along just fine, but it’s argued that if Meta makes their federation implementation sub-par (or otherwise sabotages it), it’ll hurt the user-base growth of sites that use these projects (as people will see begin to see it as unreliable or what-not).

Is it as doom and gloom as people make it seem? Idk, I haven’t had time to care.

Thank you for developing this app! Being able to use Boost again has felt like being right at home. Your UI/UX design is just amazing, and I’ve sorely missed it since Reddit’s whole thing happened.