Russians aren’t brown skinned people tho. We almost exclusively bomb brown skin people.

If going with a standalone dashboard service, which one?

I use Homarr and find it suites my needs. However there are quite a few others out there. Homepage seems to be a popular one with loads of integrations available.

As in a blog or wiki? I do not because I am not authoritative. What I know came from reading, doing, screwing it up, ad nauseam. When something finally clicks for me, I write it down because 9 times out of 10, I will need that info later. But my writing would be so full of inaccuracies that it would be embarrassing and possibly lead someone astray.

OP, totally understand, but this is a level of success with your homelab. Nothing needs fiddling with. Now, there is a whole Awesome Self Hosted list you could deploy on a non-production server and run that through the paces.

Right before the end of your day

Oh, gosh, I did this last evening. I didn’t check what time it was, and initiated an update on some 70 containers. I have a cron that shuts down the server in the evening, and sure enough, right in the middle of the updates, it powered off. I didn’t even mess with it and went to bed. Re-initiated the update this morning, and everything is up and running. Whew!

unnecessary complexity?

I can help with that. It’s a skill I have. LOL

At 71, I have to document. I started a long time ago. I worked for a mec. contractor long ago, and the rule was: ‘If you didn’t write it down, it didn’t happen.’ That just carried over to everything I do.

time to test the backups!

Always a white knuckle event for me

BookLore

I have seriously considered spinning up Booklore. Great looking UI. Oh well.

It sounds like what you really need is a mesh VPN not really KVM.

Ding!

I learn so much :)

I’ve had a computer in front of me since the mid 70s with the Altair. Now, don’t mistake time with skill, but, the learning aspect is what I dig the most.

…oh you kids and your slang!! (We had plenty too) I had to look it up. Going to have to try to work that into conversation. Thanks. I have a fascination with the etymology of words, phrases, and their history.

I don’t feel so weird now that I see a lot of people who have the same guilty pleasures.

No offense intended.

Just pulling your strings man.

Why not run your own socks5 proxy server?

https://github.com/serjs/socks5-server

Welcome! Good to meet you. Looks like you are well on the selfhosting journey.

Man, why you want to trample on my vision? LOL My default is ‘deny all until something complains, and address PRN.’ Some of my more productive lists are the Internet Storm set, a lot of Firebog lists, and some I’ve compiled myself. Tons of CIDR rejects, not a whole lot of passes.

No worries mate. I was just sitting here jamming some blues on the guitar and felt inspired.

Actually one of these free logo maker sites and I just screen grabbed it instead of paying for it, then flooded the background with Gimp. However a logo made with AI that says Zero AI would be irony.

Might want to crop it a bit. Go nuts!