I found Tailscale to be easier to install and configure than ZeroTier, and also to have better performance.

I have never used Twingate.

Founding member of company that stands to make fortunes through a product endorses said product.

They’re Meross, this one specifically.

https://shop.meross.com/products/meross-matter-plug-with-energy-monitor-mss315-uk

I got a couple of PM plugs with Matter support. I can’t pair them with HomeKit or Home Assistant. I spent about 5h troubleshooting this, inspecting network packets and whatnot and didn’t get any closer to having them working.

I’d rather things just had MQTT support. Happy with Zigbee though, as I can route those to MQTT as well.

I might pick it back up some day but at the moment I have other projects going on at the moment.

I’m still using Proxmox myself but unfortunately it’s all fairly manually configured.

I started writing a Terraform provider for Proxmox a while ago.

Unfortunately, the API is a massive mess and the documentation is not very helpful either. It was a nightmare and I eventually gave up.

https://github.com/c10l/terraform-provider-proxmoxve

On macOS I’ve been using Ollama. It’s very easy to setup, can run as a service and expose an API.

You can talk to it directly from the CLI (ollama run ) or via applications and plugins (like https://continue.dev ) that consume the API.

It can run on Linux but I haven’t personally tried it.

https://ollama.ai/

This is prety much it actually.

I did do a lot more stuff but only things specific to my personal setup, like having the games on a separate Btrfs partition which can be mounted from other OSs, that kind of stuff.

Assumin all one wants to do is install a few games from Steam, once the setup I described is done, everything is an apt install steam away.

I considered getting a Mini a couple years ago. I tried one. It was not small enough for the reasons you describe. I have a regular sized iPhone for that reason.

I’ve long said the mini flopped not because people don’t want small phones, but rather because it wasn’t small enough to be worth the tradeoff of a smaller screen.

How do you use a car to make parts for a printer?

I just hope you don’t live somewhere even half as dusty as where I do!

It’s not. Just drop the storage device in a manhole, or get mugged, or break it in some way. Also when you do so, pretty much all packets are lost and to retransmit you need to go back to the point of origin and make a new copy, assuming you still have the original.