That’s a good theory. This may be able to be investigated further with systemd-analyze plot > boot.svg

Old enough, as in “my infant is old enough to eat solid foods.”

If your TV OS is old enough there is an API you can use. https://github.com/ow/samsung-frame-art

This was my first thought. I’m actually using this right now to set up WireGuard at my house so I can tunnel there from a remote location on several devices that don’t have ssh accounts on the target.

Next in line is ssh -D 9999 remotehost which opens a socks5 proxy on localhost:9999 that tunnels all connections through the remote host. This is especially rad with proxy.pac https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/Proxy_servers_and_tunneling/Proxy_Auto-Configuration_PAC_file

And next in line is ssh -L 9999:target_host:80 (or whatever) which tunnels 127.0.0.1:9999 to target_host:80.

Personally I agree. I don’t use the SFF. OP asked for something compact though.

Lil Nas X totally sounds like it would be a valid answer here.

Get an old optiplex SFF off Craigslist for $200 and be done with it. Those things last so long, and since it’s commodity hardware you can replace individual components that break for not much money.

I had a boring manufacturing job with long gaps between batches of work, so I read every help file in Windows NT4.1. While reading them, I found a way around our IT limitations on which apps we could run, and learned how to write scripts. So I wrote a password protected launcher tool using a macro feature in a terminal emulator I had access to on my workstation, and then started reading the man pages in Unix sys-V.

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I’m not aware of a way for it to notify if the internet is down. An expired certificate would not create that failure scenario though.

Also the notification would have gone out well before the certificate expired.

It has a built in alerting mechanism that integrates with demo communication services. Also

Uptime Kuma is integrated Apprise which supports up to 78+ notification services.

https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki

uptime-kuma will monitor your https availability and automatically check your cert expiration.

My experience running several ssh servers on uncommon nonstandard ports for over 10 years has been that it has eliminated all ssh brute forcing. I don’t even bother with fail2ban. I probably should though, just in case.

Also, PSA: if you use fail2ban, don’t try tab completing rsync commands without using controlmaster or you will lock yourself out.

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Hosting the server is free. I’m actually not sure about windows because I don’t use that. We actually play on our iPads. We have a family set up. Pay once for the app, everybody gets to install it on their own device.

For free stuff I think people run Java edition? Again, I’ve never done that. There is an itzg Java server container https://github.com/itzg/docker-minecraft-server

FWIW Bedrock lets you connect to servers online that have free games to play like Bed Wars, Sky Wars, Block Party. I don’t know if Java has that.

My kids and I use https://github.com/itzg/docker-minecraft-bedrock-server and I would recommend it.

I think they mean pull-through cache. https://shipyard.build/blog/how-to-docker-registry-pull-through-cache/

That person is missing the point that a randomized MAC will often get a different DHCP lease, and the MAC address is used in that, so the IP address will change.

On a trusted Wi-Fi network, disable MAC randomization on your clients, and if possible reserve an IP address for their non-random MAC address. Some devices have deterministic random per WiFi network, which could also work. In iOS this is WiFi network -> private WiFi address “fixed”. “Rotating” would cause your pihole problems.

Agreed. I use their docker image, and have migrated servers. Other than copying data it only took a few minutes of cli-fu and everything was back up and running.

Tangent to this, “Apprise lets you send notifications to a large number of support notification services.”

https://github.com/caronc/apprise

As somebody who just watched a team implement MySQL for an app that only supported Postgres, I’d go with Postgres.

I never want to use MySQL again. Postgres or SQLite for relational databases.