External. I also have two older laptop drives from different machines that converted to External.

If you’re really paranoid you can export the data to different media types including archival dvd and archival tape. Tape is unreasonably expensive for SMB/home use though.

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.

I just bought a drive. They are cheap and plentiful. They are literally used for multi-decade archival. They will go extinct eventually but you won’t be alive to witness it.

Anything magnetic is not good for long term powered-off storage.

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.

No, hdd are better but archival dvd/bd is probably better.

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.

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.

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.

Can you hit the port?

Ping,Tracert,Knock on the port with Telnet.

I’m guessing firewall rules related to your vpn.

Wait how is there Doom drama?

There’s nothing wrong with hardware raid. You can probably pass them through as individual drives.

I would use them as is but only buy sata going forward.

I will give it a shot. Looks like there’s a free demo.

Need to start somewhere. RISC-v is open source, the others are not.

This is great, but also risc-v please.

You responded to a question with an incorrect answer. I was correcting that.

VPNs shouldn’t need to forward any ports when using ipv6. They can provide an entire ipv6 subnet to you.

Port forwarding is a function of NAT. It’s only needed because there aren’t enough ipv4 addresses for every device, so in most networks a lot of devices share a single ip and specific ports are forwarded to specific internal hosts

IPv6 has a large enough address space that this isn’t needed. You can still do it if you want. But mostly you just need a firewall without any NAT.

There’s more to it than this but you should get the idea.