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Cool! Which installation method did you use?

I hadn't heard of Talos Linux, sounds cool! We are using haproxy as ingress controller with stepca for local certificates at work.

None. I won't install something that checks the whole system, but maybe a tool something that checks installed packages or container images against some known cve database and alerts me if it has findings.

I didn't know that, cool! Though I should probably talk to the mods before setting up such a thing.

Personally I'm mostly involved with my homelab migration so there's not too much on the selfhosting page except os updates. I set up meshmini earlier to access my thin clients via vPro/AMT but I need to configure the clients before being able to actually using meshmini. Once I'm done with that I'll finally be able to set up Lemmy and Pine pods.

My selfhosted stuff currently works fine without me doing much which feels good and lets me focus on hardware stuff currently.

Not answering every single point but generally: I'd set up proxmox, test everything, make notes, reach a state/config that you like, and then start over doing it "properly" from start.

Personally: ZFS yes, quemu/lxc depends on use case

I shy away from running all services as Docker on the same machine for backup/restore purposes and rather have VMs per service. Is there anything wrong with this approach?

No, but you'll have much more overhead. I have a VM that hosts all Docker deployments which don't need much disk space (most of them)

Personally I'm waiting for Ghost to support Activitypub but generally exposing WordPress is perfectly fine.

Some snowdrops came out during the last days, other than that I didn't notice anything. Need to trim the apple tree soon - just ate the last apples from last year :)

In Mastodon you need to mention the person you reply to or they won't get mentioned. Clients usually set them automatically.

Use whatever you have and test different setups. I would start by installing Proxmox and setup ZFS on some drive that not the boot partition. For just checking it out with some lightweight VMs and containers any CPU that's not 20 years old will suffice, the more RAM the better. Play with VMs, backups etc in small scale. You can use your old external USB HDD, etc, just to figure out things like ZFS.

Don't buy anything before getting some experience and having some kind of plan.

Hm, I never really liked Conversations and decided to end xmpp for good. Maybe I need to give it another try but I really like some Matrix features.

Better mobile clients? Have things changed this much in the least three years?