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Proton will reconnect in the background which means the port changes and the IP address changes.

That’s weird. What is the reasoning behind that? That would drive me up the wall. A new IP and port would require a new leak test for me. Some VPN slots have a reverse DNS which attaches an identifier to the whole shebang, and in my mind, is unacceptable.

That really looks good bro. Very modern looking card style. I’m keen to know how you have coded it to reject IP, other than VPN traffic.

to try and prop their own war machine back up.

I don’t honestly think that Russia couldn’t already afford modern infrastructure and military, as much as I think the government crippled because it’s basically run mafia style where everyone is skimming heavily. on the take. and money being funneled to already wealthy pockets. This sounds vaguely familiar. Even down to people ‘falling’ out of a window from great heights. I get what you are saying tho. Russia is rich in natural resources if they can figure out how to extract a lot of it from the frozen tundra.

Russians aren’t brown skinned people tho. We almost exclusively bomb brown skin people.

If going with a standalone dashboard service, which one?

I use Homarr and find it suites my needs. However there are quite a few others out there. Homepage seems to be a popular one with loads of integrations available.

As in a blog or wiki? I do not because I am not authoritative. What I know came from reading, doing, screwing it up, ad nauseam. When something finally clicks for me, I write it down because 9 times out of 10, I will need that info later. But my writing would be so full of inaccuracies that it would be embarrassing and possibly lead someone astray.

OP, totally understand, but this is a level of success with your homelab. Nothing needs fiddling with. Now, there is a whole Awesome Self Hosted list you could deploy on a non-production server and run that through the paces.

Right before the end of your day

Oh, gosh, I did this last evening. I didn’t check what time it was, and initiated an update on some 70 containers. I have a cron that shuts down the server in the evening, and sure enough, right in the middle of the updates, it powered off. I didn’t even mess with it and went to bed. Re-initiated the update this morning, and everything is up and running. Whew!

unnecessary complexity?

I can help with that. It’s a skill I have. LOL

At 71, I have to document. I started a long time ago. I worked for a mec. contractor long ago, and the rule was: ‘If you didn’t write it down, it didn’t happen.’ That just carried over to everything I do.

time to test the backups!

Always a white knuckle event for me

BookLore

I have seriously considered spinning up Booklore. Great looking UI. Oh well.

It sounds like what you really need is a mesh VPN not really KVM.

Ding!

I learn so much :)

I’ve had a computer in front of me since the mid 70s with the Altair. Now, don’t mistake time with skill, but, the learning aspect is what I dig the most.

…oh you kids and your slang!! (We had plenty too) I had to look it up. Going to have to try to work that into conversation. Thanks. I have a fascination with the etymology of words, phrases, and their history.

I don’t feel so weird now that I see a lot of people who have the same guilty pleasures.

No offense intended.

Just pulling your strings man.