I don't work in IT at all. My self hosting journey started when I got sick of feeling powerless in the face of big tech companies who are increasingly ripping off customers or violating their right to privacy. There's also the general mistrust that comes from my data being repeatedly breached or leaked because share holder profits are more important than investing in basic security.

Yeah I would suggest buying another NIC. They're cheap, its good security, and it opens up another port upstream for other uses.

I use the pcie coral and it works fine with plenty of processing to spare although I believe mine coast e closer to $50. I have 6 amcrest PoE cameras. You should just buy a PoE switch and directly connect all cameras to it. Then link that directly to your frigate box and lock down access. Any amcrest camera should work well with frigate. I believe they all support rtsp protocol.

When I say local I mean automated PVE backups the same as it would be through PBS. If that makes any difference.

So I use Fusion360 for the technical building of components; framing, drywall, cabinets.

I export this to 3dsmax and flesh it out for archviz. Rendering with V-ray.

Unfortunately there aren't any good options for pirating either of these softwares.

3dsmax and vray also have very steep learning curves.

There are also better alternatives than Fusion360 which include BIM features, but they're insanely expensive unless you own a profitable architecture firm.

Already has...

I feel you but I've already got curated playlists of over 3,000 songs me and friends have spent a few years putting together. I actually don't mind the idea of pulling each artists whole disco as lidarr does. My current roadblock is the lack of good resources/tools that automate the process.

Is there a way to automate downloads? As mentioned in my original post I'm hoping to essentially mirror a few Spotify playlists and have my server automatically download either all of the songs on the playlist or all of the songs by the artists appearing on the playlists.

When I initiate Yubikey auth via NFC in Bitwarden, it takes me to a Yubikey demo page. From what I’m reading online, for some reason I need to install google play for the key to work correctly.

Also seeing lots of chatter on the forums that a recent gos update broke most banking apps and they’re working on a fix.

Thank you for the info about the keyboard. I’ll check that one out.

Oh this is pretty cool.

I guess what I'm getting at is now instead of them tracing your activity to one browser or device, they can more easily group multiple devices since they're all using the same VPN IP.

I’ve been toying with this idea but with a mesh network, in my case nebula, after experiencing a similar frustration with limitations on most client devices when trying to connect to multiple VPNs.

One question I’ve been trying to answer is if routing all of these devices to a single vpn endpoint has any negative effects on privacy. Would cycling the IP randomly help to prevent trackers from putting together a profile of activity?