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For remote access I use two solutions that both have the features your looking for.

The first one which I have used for longer than I can remember is MeshCentral https://github.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral

This one works great, is web based, let’s you access a shell, or you can make port tunnels been agents, access RDP or vnc in the web UI, the file system etc.

it’s a really great one stop shop that more than covers what you’re looking for.

The second is RustDesk https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk with the betterdesk server and web UI https://github.com/UNITRONIX/BetterDesk

This one scratched my TeamViewer itch and weekend pretty well. It’s newer than MeshCentral and not as easy to setup however on top of the web client it’s got apps which in my opinion provide a better experience for remote desktop access than MeshCentrals novnc client especially around copy paste.

All in all, of your looking for something ultra easy I recommend MeshCentral, it’s minor quirks around novnc are so easy to overlook since it just works so well.

If you want a modern TeamViewer then go with RustDesk/betterdesk but it’s newer and needs some extra work to get going.

All these projects are open source, free, self hostable, has headless file and terminal access, and have web clients.

For using Linux on any remote solution you pretty much have to run the desktop on x11 instead of Wayland. I don’t know if any software has found a great Wayland solution yet.

I think it mostly depends on the type of locomotion.

For teleport it’s fine, for sliding it’s not as easy to keep dinner down.

Half life Alyx is the best VR game I have ever played, and it might be one of the best games I have played due to the VR element and carefully crafted experience.

My experience is the opposite, WhatsApp is my most reliable bridge requiring exactly zero intervention to reauthorize or troubleshoot.

Your right you still have to have the app because of how it works. But you can’t bridge the calls anyways, I just have message notifications off.

This isn’t about continued uptime. It’s total time on. Rebooting doesn’t reset this figure.

Opnsense or pfsense are good options. Most people would suggest the former.

If you use your existing router as an AP you need to ensure it has a different IP address then your firewall and turn off DHCP.

If buying APs most would suggest unifi access points for their features and ease of use.

The *sense options let your use wire guard, openvpn, or others like tailscale, tinc.

For hardware any dual nic (in the speed you want) any n95, n100, n150 mini PC should more than meet your needs.

I would consider zoraxy.

https://github.com/tobychui/zoraxy

Single go binary, works on Windows natively if you need that and somewhat more feature rich than npm (if your not custom writing configs)

While the idea of this is interesting there’s some unknowns. 3000km at what efficiency? Even at 10kwh/100km that’s still a 300kwh battery. To charge that in 5 mins ignoring losses you would need a source able to supply like 3.5 megawatts.

Looking at the largest Tesla super chargers near me of 325kw that would still take 55 minutes (again no losses).

We are going to need massive grid investments to be able to support fast charging at scale and if batteries are going to be that large than we will need to also consider higher capacity chargers.

My kitchen has 4 different lights in it, and often a random one will be on.

One light is on a 3 way switch with a switch at either entrance, if I hit that switch (then realize I turned on an extra light, instead of turning off one of the other lights) and turn it back off within 2.5 seconds then it will turn off and other of the the lights in the kitchen that happen to be on.

Every time I accidentally trigger this automation it makes me smile because it’s silly

Least year I paid $485 cdn for 22 tb wd red pro drives. Right now the same drives are $749 cdn.

It’s already too late

For the ones I imported it seems like the location data is still there

https://takeout.google.com/

Export your photos with take out

Then use immich-go to import

https://github.com/simulot/immich-go

Ubuntu is based on Debian, by the nature of that it will have more things than Debian.

Ubuntu generally has more cutting Edge features and tools by the nature of what it is, but the company supporting it also is pushing snap files for compatability containers which may or may not be your cup of tea.

Debians official packages can sometimes be a tad older since their ideology is stability over everything else.

A popular hypervisor distro proxmox uses Debian as the base for it’s great stability.

Honestly the best thing to do is just start trying things and don’t only rely on your own stuff until you have a good understanding.

Just get an old computer and install an os you want to learn, worst case you break it and reinstall.

I suggest proxmox since you can lean on community scripts and can backup and restore any containers pretty easily if needed.

But as with anything don’t go in expecting to be perfect, just get started, break some eggs and learn from mistakes. You will learn what you like about it, what you would change and you can burn it all down and start again if you want as well.

If you use tailscale you could pretty easily get similar results.

Tailscale to broker connections between devices and then access with the tailscale IP address

Here’s a very old flow chart I made for some folks that didn’t want to use Linux. Though it mostly applies to any serup

This confuses me a bit, technically nextcloud is just a PHP script that only runs when you actually perform a page request.

If you don’t enable the Cron then it does even less than a normal install.

Depending on what services you want to give access with, I have had great luck with an ultra cheap VPS

https://lowendbox.com/blog/1-vps-1-usd-vps-per-month/

Then I host my edge services on a container and use an ssh tunnel to the remote host which gives me an ipv4 and any port forward that I want.

For example I have my reverse proxy inside my network and my VPN server then I use a command like:

ssh -R 8080:localhost:80 public.example.com

Which would forward publicip:8080 to localhost:80

Read more here: https://www.ssh.com/academy/ssh/tunneling-example.

I use autossh to keep the tunnel alive at all times.

https://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/

This is an ultra cheap way to get any ports you want and self host the whole thing. The remote VPS also doesn’t get any extra access to your local network and doesn’t initiate the connection so it doesn’t have credentials for your local network

Really I think we are going to see an increase in jellyfin uptake given the changes which is great for that project

But if you don’t already have lifetime and are paying monthly or annually then that price is also almost doubling