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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • For me, I’m Team Proxmox. It’s just easy to spin up containers for pretty much anything I need. No need for the resource overhead of a full-on virtual machine if I simply need to run a LAMP app. Anything you really have an issue transitioning from Docker to LXC can still be run inside a container with Docker installed. And if you need to set up a VM for Windows or pfSense or some other OS for whatever reason, it’s insanely easy to do.




  • Proxmox on a Lenovo micro form factor is probably a good cost effective option. Get a business class ThinkCentre, like an M720 or something similar that’s 3-5 years old that a corpo has just upgraded away from, i5 or Ryzen 5 with however much storage and RAM you want. Spin up a container specifically and only for PiHole+Unbound (and consider adding a pi or some other dedicated hardware for DNS later on for redundancy in case your main goes down), and then the rest is however you want to build your environment.

    For me, I’ve got a Pi dedicated to 3 key tasks: PiHole, Unbound, and PiVPN (edit: and Nginx Proxy Manager. It’s dedicated to 4 key tasks…). It’s basically my filtering interface between the home network the rest of the internet immediately after my router handles the frontline defenses, and then I’ve got a Proxmox cluster to run most of the rest of my internal services.






  • You’re doing great already, and your desire to do well by your child means you’ll continue doing great.

    Talk, sing, show your kid by example what being a person looks like. Read to them every day, and keep it up until they pick up the mantle and start reading on their own. Introduce them to new toys, sounds, foods, and experiences as they develop. But right now, literally everything is still brand new to this person and the best thing you can do is provide Level 1 “How to human” lessons. Your voice, touch, and demonstrated behaviors are your best tools right now.