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My suggestion is to migrate the server to the Java edition and use one of the projects that support plugins like paper or purpur.

After that install geysermc, floodgate, viaversion, and viabackwards plugins.

https://geysermc.org/download https://github.com/ViaVersion/ViaVersion https://github.com/ViaVersion/ViaBackwards

This lets people connect to the Java server from bedrock clients and it gives some flexibility in the specific version used to connect to the server.

This way you can use whatever official or questionable version of the Minecraft server client.

Migrating the world might require a special tool like chunker.

https://www.chunker.app/

Once your on the Java edition client all kinds of options open up for you in terms of plugins and options should you wish.

The geysermc plugin supports extensions as well one I recommend is:

https://github.com/MCXboxBroadcast/Broadcaster

This one let’s you add an Xbox friend that you can join from most bedrock clients super easily.

If you go with your option A, you could virtualize the windows install and run it inside of the truenas or other os using qemu.

You would still need to have enough drives for a new array, but that was always going to be the situation

It’s just from my phone. I have all the notifications off from the original app

https://docs.mau.fi/bridges/go/setup.html?bridge=whatsapp

Or if you prefer docker

https://docs.mau.fi/bridges/general/docker-setup.html?bridge=whatsapp

Proxmox backup server is my jam, great first party deduplicated incremental backups. You can also spin up more than 1 and sync between them

Once in a while discord signs me out and I have to do a bunch of extra sign-in steps on the official client. But otherwise I have discord, WhatsApp, Google voice, Google chat, Google messages (sms), Facebook, telegram, signal.

All the mautrix bridges are will made and robust

There will also be a Steam Deck 2: Episode 1 and Steam Deck 2: Episode 2

So, one thing that’s not clear here. Is the server and your desktop both at the same location? If they are I see no reason why you couldn’t just leave all the files on the server, have an NFS or Samba share then just stop it on the server and start it (over the network share) on your desktop. It would be functionally seamless, would require no effort to keep the files in sync, and would ensure your running things in the box you want.

Ha indeed, every room in the house is getting 2 faceplates (on roughly opposite sides of the room) with 4 Ethernet that runs each back to the server rack. Is every room having 8 runs right back to the switch excessive, you bet.

In my old place I had one faceplate with 2 ethernet, coax and phone to each room, but phone and coax is useless and I didn’t have enough Ethernet.

Top to Bottom:

• 48port Patch panel
• Cisco 2990 48 port Poe
• 48port Patch panel (future)
• Cisco 2990 48 port Poe (future)
• 24 port patch panel (spare)
• Pfsense 2.5gb eth minipc
• 4u server 20 bay (proxmox)

Bottom area:

• 2 mini pcs (proxmox)
• PiKVM and ezcoo switch connected to all PCs
• Couple of UPS

The access to the crawlspace isn’t great so the CrapRack ^tm had to be assembled in the crawlspace.

I agree with this, though I think a lot of people don’t differentiate between operating system containers like LXC provides and application containers like docker provides.

Just 3.3 cents per day seems pretty reasonable

To be fair the post was 2 days old when you posted

At least we did get another half life game (Alyx), I greatly enjoyed the first 4 core games (1, 2, ep1, ep2) and felt that Alyx fit nicely into the bunch though it was interesting that they ended it in such a way that it opens up more options for any future games.

As an aside while I know the market is definitely smaller for VR releases, if the next half life was a VR release again I would love that, i found the experience for Alyx to be stellar

LLM AIs think any sentence that starts with who what where when, why or how is a question.

Obligatory if you install HA on a raspberry Pi. Use the SSD option as you will wear out an SD card or usb key pretty quickly since those devices aren’t intended for constant writes from things like logging and generally don’t have any wear out leveling.

There is actually infrastructure involved… payment infrastructure, servers, modems and cell connectivity. Sure none of those things would be needed if there weren’t subscriptions, but there certainly is infrastructure used to verify your subscription and cut you off when you miss a payment.

Have you ever tried using aurora instead of the play store for devices that don’t natively have it?

https://auroraoss.com/

I think what’s funnier about this is that most home assistant users make purchasing choices based on support in home assistant. So anyone that bought one of their units and used it in home assistant would have just bought something else without the support in home assistant being there.

As a result I would think they actually made more money from having that plugin existing.

I think the issue here is more that interacting with certain companies or services is unavoidable. As an Android user I often will have to interact with iPhone users and the impact of their vendor lock-in techniques is that the experience of those interactions is worse on both sides.

I can’t convince every person to stop using an iPhone, or even just just a different messaging app, most people can’t even agree what to have for dinner…

So users that take it upon themselves to try and improve the experience by trying things like beeper or beeper mini are actually trying to help others maintain their choices and preferences without the degraded experience.

So sometimes a person voting with their dollars isn’t enough, since it’s others choices that still have an impact