I remember trying Retroshare… no offline message is the biggest obstacle.

If the firewall just means no incoming connections, your computer can still reach out to the other side (if they open their port)

try ncdu?

sudo ncdu --one-file-system /

I would 100% exploit this (insurance for family).

Forgot to answer this question, yes I think it would work.

Yes, speed would be much slower.

Yes, you can host a normal website through tor.

AFAIK tor websites (onion service) doesn’t require exit node, and no one knows your IP unless you are unlucky enough all nodes you connected are controlled by same entity.

I am pretty sure you can set your own DNS server in Android.

I think most up-to-date OpenWrt routers can do later (with normal, unencrypted DNS requests), see https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/firewall/fw3_configurations/intercept_dns.

The model you mentioned (Flint 2) is supported by OpenWrt.

route ipv6 dns to a destination of my choice

Does this mean setting custom DNS server (so devices using DHCP picks up what DNS server you want them to use) or intercept DNS requests (MITM or use firewall rule to drop outbound 53 port requests)?

One thing notable of Sierra Forest is that the CPUs don’t have SMT (only 1 thread per core), so in theory it doesn’t suffer from speculative execution attacks.

Epyc CPUs still provides more PCIE lanes, which is crucial for GPUs.

ASUSTOR has NAS that can have up to 12 NVME SSDs (but speed is very limited by PCIE lanes).

NVME SSDs are still very expensive compares to HDD.

NAS that have many HDD bays are expensive but designed for easy setup and easy management.

Fractal Design Define 7 (XL) can have up to 18 HDDs by design, but then you will need to search for PCIE to SATA cards and PSU that have many SATA connectors (for example RM850x/RM1000x) and Molex to SATA cables.

FSP CMT370 is a much cheaper case with up to 3.5" HDD *9 or 2.5" SSD *10 but it’s not on amazon, it probably doesn’t sell to western world.

SAS drive enclosures (and SAS cards) are also an option, but the cages might be very loud because they are designed for servers that also are very loud.

I still use X11 in my work computer because I need keepassxc to auto-type password to non-web programs.

There is also lowendtalk and lowendspirit, both the them are forums where you can make a post to ask.

Not a Metroidvania game but I had fun playing ASTLIBRA Revision last year.

In NetworkManager you can setup network sharing using Ethernet port on the laptop, then connect cable to your server.

Downside of that is you need to setup port forwarding in your laptop if you want to open port.

If both Ethernet NIC is over 1gbps, you are fine with using normal cable.

I had no luck with mesa’s implementation as well, BOINC only recognize ROCM’s opencl library.

systemd-homed can also do it.

Late to the thread, but SFTPGo is very nice.

It can be exposed as web server, (S)FTP Server and WebDAV, has built in authentication system, have built in brute force protection.

All in a single executable.