This plugged into a raspberry pi would be a cheap alternative to a true kvm appliance.

https://openterface.com/product/minikvm/

You don’t need a kvm for 5 systems, just one for the machine that doesn’t have vpro.

Vpro is really only needed to get you into your bios or fix an issue where you disabled network somehow.

You could buy a standalone kvm. I think there’s one that uses a raspberry pi.

Or you could set up vnc or something similar on your host if you need a gui.

I would put vpro as a nice to have but not essential component option.

Non-vpro with amt will still get you to the pre-os screen I think.

You posted this into the /c/fediverse community. It should be in /c/news or somewhere else.

Might be best to delete it and post again.

Welcome!

Evaporative air coolers only need enough power to run the fan.

It’s not clear what paid licensing gets you. What’s an Enterprise OS for example?

Set up a VPN to your router as a backup. If something goes down, you can still vpn into your LAN and reach all services.

Generally speaking, when using resistive heat, it’s best to use them as little as possible. Direct application to your body (electric blanket) is cheaper than heating the air (heat strips in hvac air handler).

Some people think that using one of those oil based electric radiators is cheaper than a heat pump but it’s not.

Buy Bitcoin.

Self signed certs are usually created with OpenSSL. Find an example online. If you own a domain create your cert against that name.

The better option is to get your backend also using let’s encrypt and change to https. The whole point of lets encrypt is “encrypt all the things”

You should be able to fix your browser cert error messages by adding the cert to your trusted root store. Easy to do on desktops, mobile devices might be harder to do without an MDM.

Sysadmins would know right away.

The beauty of it is that it electron/webview2 will probably get improved and you don’t need to fix the apps.

Enterprise firewalls can detect if you’re running services on non-standard ports.

For example if you try to use ssh on port 443, I block that.

If you try to use https on 8443 I block that.

Also if your domain is on a dynamic dns domain or is relatively new then it might get blocked.

It’s not common in enterprise to not auto-update.

Web apps are a godsend and probably the most important innovation to help move people off of Windows.

I would prefer improvements to web apps and electron/webview2 if I had to pick.

75 isn’t a whole lot. If you don’t have a financial management tool yet, you should put it towards that.

Look for something with no fees. I believe Sofi has no fees and might not have a minimum amount. Their app is also really easy to use.

A local credit union is also a good choice since you can physically talk to a person when you have questions.

Jellyfin logs will tell you if it’s transcoding. If you have a dvd you can use handbrake to convert it to any format you want.

If you stream to a different device and have the same issues and it’s also not transcoding then you can isolate the issue to your tv, network, or hypervisor.

What makes you think it’s the r usb-c adapter? Switch to wifi and see if there’s any difference. Try a 4k source that doesn’t need transcoding to confirm it’s not a hw acceleration issue.

Lots of text here but a firewall with inbound deny default rule is considerably easier to manage than port and ip address translation. It’s also possible to get unexpected inbound traffic with NAT. It’s how Tailscale works for example. Sounds like a security failure to me.

I’ve used no-ip.com for years without issue.

My NAS supports a few services out of the box. If you have anything like that, see what they support natively first.

If you have enough IPs then not using NAT makes everything less complicated without any downside to security. If you think otherwise then IPv6 is going to cause you some problems.