I really enjoyed the first one. I missed some side quests due to shooting npcs in the head when they gave me attitude, but it was worth it. It had some long sought freedom compared to most new open world sandbox rpgs.

Hairpin NAT/NAT Reflection can make the experience of visiting the WAN IP from the LAN a different one then if you do it from somewhere else. Or what is your what?

I’m kinda the opposite. I love the information density of the lemmy ui and as a text first user I dislike auto expanding pictures with a vengeance. Now I don’t really care what the default is as long as I can choose my poison.

Where did you find statistics on client use? I browse lemmy using firefox/mull whether it’s on desktop, laptop, tablet or phone.

I would probably take a gamble on the battlemage
https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-b580-graphics-linux

You would want a newer kernel though

First off, check that it is also true when using a device outside the LAN. Easiest would be to check with your phone with wifi off. You probably won’t get to the login.
If you do then it’s time to check firewall settings.

A DIY solution like your home server is great. I’m just adverse to recommending it to someone who need to ask such an open ended question here. A premade NAS is a lot more plug n play.

Personally I went with an ITX build where I run everything in a Debian KVM/qemu host, including my fedora workstation as a vm with vfio passthrough of a usb controller and the dgpu. It was a lot of fun setting it up, but nothing I’d recommend for someone needing advice for their first homelab.

I agree with your assessment of old servers, way too power hungry for what you get.

A simple way to ensure your selfhosting is easy to manage is to get a NAS for storage and then other device(s) for compute. For your current plans I think you’d get far with a Synology DS224+ (or DS423+ if you want more disk slots).
Then when the NAS starts to be not enough you can add an extra device for compute (a mini pc or whatever you want) and let that device use the NAS as a storage.
Oh and budget to buy at least one large USB Drive to use as a backup, even if your NAS runs a redundant RAID.

And now articles telling us it wasn’t real has started showing up.
https://m.economictimes.com/news/new-updates/did-yesmadam-fire-stressed-employees-company-issues-clarification-after-receiving-criticism-on-social-media/articleshow/116160191.cms

Right, I’m not accusing OP of faking his content. I’m stating the possibility of the original poster from linkedin spreading a lie for the sake of publicity.

All the articles I’ve visited just write about the image in the OP and state that they haven’t verified the claims, f.e:
However, India Today could not independently verify the authenticity of the viral screenshot of the email.
https://www.indiatoday.in/trending-news/story/yesmadam-stress-survey-fires-employees-who-said-yes-hr-email-viral-backlash-2647050-2024-12-09

Also interesting to how at least one reposter seem to be a digital marketer.
“Shitiz Dogra, Associate Director of Digital Marketing at IndiGo”

I wouldn’t be surprised if this is all fake and meant to spread the company name.

I also tend to fall back to Clonezilla. I don’t feel that the Rescuezilla GUI adds much.
Regarding compatibility both the latest Rescuezilla (since September 2024) and Clonezilla (Since July 2024) uses partclone 0.3.32 so they should once again be compatible.
https://github.com/rescuezilla/rescuezilla/releases

Sweet, then you know what’s going on and solved it!

You might wanna try out if your distro is compatible with cockpit:
https://cockpit-project.org/
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit

It gives you a webUI that you can use to check out logs and services (among other things) and makes it a lot easier to troubleshoot computer troubles where the machine starts but your GUI doesn’t.

If you’re only storing strictly necessary cookies then you just need to link to a cookie policy somewhere - no popup banner needed.

Strictly necessary cookies — These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. Cookies that allow web shops to hold your items in your cart while you are shopping online are an example of strictly necessary cookies. These cookies will generally be first-party session cookies. While it is not required to obtain consent for these cookies, what they do and why they are necessary should be explained to the user.
https://gdpr.eu/cookies/

Here’s a nice example of a cookie policy:
https://legal.lemmy.world/cookie-policy/

On mastodon you can only add an account you follow to a list. They get notified when you follow them, not when they’re added to a list.

I don’t think you’ll find much use for more than 1 Gbit/s internet but if your desktop pc has a free pcie slot you can look at buying a 10Gbit/s pcie card and a 10Gbit/s network switch as your backbone for fun. You’ll rarely have use for it though.

I imagine you’re talking about bandwidth and that your 300MB is actually 300Mbit/s and all your Gs are Gbit/s.
The fastest ADSL I’ve heard of is 24Mbit/s downstream, aka ADSL2+/G.992.5. You don’t have ADSL.
I would guess that your “ADSL” is actually fiber and that your “Cable” is coaxial cable (same type that gives you cable tv).
If you wanna use more than 1Gbit/s your devices also need to support it. Even with WiFi 6 you will seldom reach 1Gbit/s so we’re talking CAT6 cables and a motherboard that supports at least 2.5Gbit/s.

If a clean install also fails then I would start considering hardware fault.
You could always check if you can boot Fedora Workstation with GNOME just in case but I think you should start looking for a replacement PC.

https://guide.munin-monitoring.org/en/latest/tutorial/getting-started.html#adding-a-node

There are some unofficial Nagios Docker setups, such as https://github.com/JasonRivers/Docker-Nagios
Here’s their configuration doc: https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagioscore/docs/nagioscore/4/en/configmain.html
It isn’t all that pretty, see some examples at https://sourceforge.net/projects/nagios/ , but it allows for email alerts, multiple hosts (including managed network devices) and monitoring CPU / Memory / Disk space.

I’ve only ever run it as a full VM so I can’t give much thought on the docker container.

Things that will make Linux more frustrating to test:
Laptops with dgpus, Desktops with Nvidia dgpus (though there are distros that solve that out of the box such as the https://nobaraproject.org/ created by the GloriousEggroll himself), Software inflexibility.
Personally I build my machines with AMD CPU and GPU to make linux sailing a bit more smooth.

If your main software applications won’t work in Linux and there are no substitutes available that are good enough then you will have a bad time trying Linux. It’s like having a screwdriver without torx bits when all you use is torx screws.

OOBE\Bypassnro:
That said, if your Windows-only need is running peripheral apps to configure them then a refurbished Windows 11 Pro PC (desktop or laptop) that you keep disconnected will do it for you. The last saved configuration profile is (almost) always stored in the peripheral itself.
The trick is to:
a) not connect it to the network when it asks for it and,
b) Press Shift+F10 and run the bypassnro script in the oobe directory. (OOBE\Bypassnro)
The Windows out of the box experience will restart and the network requirement will be gone, you can now install with a local user instead of a microsoft account.
It will still spy on you whenever you connect it to the network, but you don’t have to connect it now do you?

Things that make the experience hell even when you get it running:
Guides tricking people into running a full OS on an old USB-A Thumb Drive that doesn’t have the IO to handle it.

My recommendation:
Buy a refurbished Lenovo T14s Gen2 or Gen3 with AMD, such as https://www.target.com/p/lenovo-thinkpad-t14s-g2-14-laptop-amd-ryzen-5-16gb-ram-256gb-ssd-w11p-manufacturer-refurbished/-/A-93371454.
Try any and all distros you are curious about until you find one you wouldn’t mind running as your main OS.

Then either go Windows 11 Pro on your laptop again and run your linux distro of choice on the desktop,
or use the desktop as a pure gaming machine and do your privacy conscious stuff on the linux laptop.
If you love competitive online FPS games with kernel level anticheat then you’re stuck with the second option.
A third option is to refuse software that only works in Windows and go full Linux on your machines, but I understand that isn’t a reasonable option for everyone.