has anyone noticed more "Spotify" created songs in their queue? I had a sleep playlist and discover weekly that had maybe 20% ai generated songs created by "Discover weekly" or Spotify.
This is great. I would however be very surprised if Xbox did try to step in like the author hints or hopes for. it would very much be against their best interests to support Linux and take away market share from Xbox and windows.
I've never used Netbird or casaOS. I run debian and docker containers.
I would recommend looking at wg-easy as a VPN. it also uses wireguard but for me it just works. you open 1 port on UDP and route it to wireguard, it's a secure way to access your network and is quite hard to detect from the outside.
I've heard good things about caddy.
"data at rest/LUKS" is something you should consider if your personally worried about someone physically trying to get information off your computer/server. if the server is running or an attacker gets into your system remotely, it doesn't matter. as a beginner, I would determine if the data your saving is worth the extra headache of encrypted media, especially if something goes wrong/an update breaks something or your configs/setup messes something up. if you do, keep a copy of your decryption keys on a NEW USB drive (flash drives go bad) or printed out in addition to saved on your workstation/laptop/password manager.
Personally for new systems I recommend Proxmox hypervisor instead of running directly on the laptop. having your debian OS/casa or whatever you use virtualized gives you the ability to take snapshots in time of your OS, makes backups easier and can help when you expand later (backup and restore on the new computer running proxmox). mine is:
proxmox on bare metal old office PC
| debian > docker w/ portainer (I plan to replace portainer w/ komono)
| TrueNAS > S3 bucket application (garage)
if Casa becomes limiting as you learn and grow, I would recommend docker compose stacks w/ a web gui like komono.
one final note, although AI can be very useful for troubleshooting and getting some code to fix a problem (albiet logic/problem solving isn't their strength) it's awful for retaining knowledge and learning in the same way that using a calculator or other tool before fully understanding how to do addition/multiplication manually. I would strongly recommend taking some time to learn the basics without ai if your goal is to understand how everything works.
resources to start with are using and reading "man + command", command help flags, online courses and websites:
https://linuxbasecamp.com/https://explainshell.com/ - copy paste a command with all arguments and it tells you what it does.
https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/introduction-to-linux/
I run proxmox bare metal (debian-based hypervisor) and virtualize debian which has all my docker containers.
with virtualization you can take a snapshot and backup everything that way. super simple to roll back if you mess something up. the added bonus is you could probably take a snapshot of your VPS and migrate it to a local vm.
Ubuntu is something I played with about a decade ago and I never felt like I was "missing" something for debian, especially on servers.
kde desktop, which you can install or select as an install on nearly Linux distro as your gui. It has themes that you can use to basically mimic apple's feel.
For hardware, framework laptops have great Linux support. I have a Dell and some things like fingerprint sensors took some tinkering to get working.
I'm not entirely sure about the technical differences but from my understanding VPN connections are preferred.
From a security perspective, ssh has some more considerations since it's easier to detect it's open, and you should lock down root access and other privileged accounts. but SSH seems simpler to actually get working vs a VPN solution which would probably require a reverse proxy or something to get the TV working.
For example, compromising a ssh service gives you access to the shell immediately vs wireguard or similar that historically (from my knowledge) has had fewer critical vulnerabilities that could lead to remote code injection or access. This is also why many corporate and best practices recommend layering ssh through a private VPN like IPsec, OpenVPN, wireguard, etc.
in practice it's most likely fine as long as
you don't use root or an account with sudo to do the ssh forwarding
require a ssh key for all connections (at minimum any remote/internet connections)
update the system regularly. you can automate security updates with unattended upgrades on debian-based systems.
Are you connecting from a public network or something? like a hotel wifi or other?
The easiest solution would be to setup the pi as your router and use a VPN like wireguard (wg-easy) or tailscale.
if it is a public network, you can double NAT. There's dedicated boxes like the GL.inet travel routers that support wireguard/openVPN and beta for tailscale. they have some features that work well with captive portals.
If it's a home network, you can probably use your PI as a entry/exit node or VPN client instead of using ssh.
wireguard is self hosted and you do have to "expose" one UDP port. From the outside it's difficult to detect that this "opening" exists because wireguard just listens and ignores everything unless you send the encrypted credentials. Compared to hosting a webpage or jellyfin directly this is much more secure. As long as you keep wireguard relatively up to date you don't really have to worry much about it.
I personally use wg-easy. It's designed to be deployed into docker (using docker compose is by far the easiest).
Then you can either use your IP address, or ideally a dynamic DNS provider so you'd connect to myexample.com:51820. Duckdns is free, otherwise options are available like cloudflare.
If you can get jellyfin working, this should be relatively straightforward.
I recently had to increase my proxmox storage as well from an old 256 to 1TB. What I did was make a copy of /etc via PVE Host Backup and saved that on my NAS/external storage. Almost everything is in /etc/pve. Then I created backups of all the VMs and stored those on the same external storage.
I then installed proxmox as normal and compared configs between backup and new configs then restored VMs from backup. The reason I did it this way is because 1) I had installed proxmox a while ago and new config > old config for stability after adding some necessary PVE scripts (e.g. intel chip, and 2) I've had weird issues before cloning drives and a fresh install was easier than risking some weird edge case troubleshooting. It also let me keep the old SSD as a backup in case something went wrong.
Edit: Also recommend going with zfs mirrored on the new install during the setup: target disks options and zfs mirrored. ZFS offers some benefits vs the default lvm.
Absolutely no problem with it being virtualized as long as you have a pci storage controller and pass that through to trueNAS. HBA cards can be found that do this without raid or anything so you can use zfs in trueNAS.
Rename it for the current president and phrase it like it's preventing aging republicans from dying and allowing liberals to overwhelm "us" at the polls.
Then basically rebuild the ACA under the new name after running it through a few translator apps to avoid plagiarism/s.
So Linux is a collection of different software, companies and volunteers. If you think of cars Linux is basically a paper design of an engine that anyone can use for free. Then Ferrari, Toyota, ford and all the other companies build their own physical engine on top of that. Some of the companies have "dealerships" or support but they primarily cost a lot of money and cater to companies, not people. There's no Linux store the way there would be an apple or Microsoft store.
The comments here are right, in that most computer repair shops should be able to figure it out the same way you can take almost any car to almost any general mechanic. There might be some complicated issues that requires someone who's good with that specific brand, but a basic install isn't super complicated in the same way changing the oil on a car should be straightforward for all mechanics.
Since you're in a rural community you can either do it yourself, try to find another computer repair shop, or ask a friend/family member nicely in exchange for food, money, whatever (please don't assume this person wants to be your dedicated support person). Linux is great and it can be pretty straightforward if you dedicate some time to learning.
If you do it yourself or have a friend do it:
buy 2 flash drives that are at least 8GB
go to windows website and download the windows 11 media creation tool.
run the media creation tool, select one of your usb drives and go through the steps to create a "bootable USB for windows 11". This is your failsafe if anything goes wrong. Label the usb and put it somewhere safe.
find a "brand" aka distro that you like. Visit their websites and look at the pictures, themes etc. Friendly options are zorinOS, Linux Mint, and Ubuntu. Framework's website has some options and instructions.
follow that distros instructions or the instructions on framework's website to create a second "bootable USB". Don't use the same one you used for windows.
The next steps will erase everything on the framework laptop including windows 11/10. Follow your specific guide.