I… guess? I don’t know how I would classify these games. But they all are able to steal from me 8h in a day, no issue :)

Project Zomboid, Rimworl, Dwarf Fortress, Stellaris, Starsector…

How is duckdns unreliable? I use it just to have wireguard access, been using it for years. Just curious about your issues…

Look into mattermost. Quite powerful, and free.

I mean, I don’t like the guy, but how is he the one responsible? What about the ones that put a smartphone in the tribesmen’s hands?

Depends on your needs. I have a couple LXDs that only need 512MB each… But I did upgrade mine to 16GB.

Yeah, one of the USFF or whatever they call them.

I got an HP ProDesk 400 G2 with an i5 6500T, 8GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD for 99€. Works beautifully, and while it’s not as efficient as a raspberry pi, it idles around 6-7w and can run a bunch of VMs with Proxmox.

Right, and all of these are optional or block-able. I guess it depends on the use case.

But, like others suggested, you could also go the custom nas way. That way it’s completely under your control.

If you are concerned, you could just not allow it to talk to the outside… I use pihole, and didn’t see any “talking” from it.

NAS… I have a Synology with 4x18tb drives.

I use it for shopping. I live in the country side, not a lot of options around here, and in a country where the concept of free shipping does not exist. So Prime saves me a lot. I barely use prime video though…

I would recommend just setting up iptables & crowdsec. Open only the ports your services need, and add the relevant plugins to crowdsec. Nothing should come through.

If you have services that allow people to upload files, that’s a different story.