No Children - The Mountain Goats

But not in a “fuck you world, I’ll do what I want” kinda way. More of a “I wanna watch it burn” kinda way.

Thanks for the recommendation, stranger. I’m gonna watch that!

My favorite movie is probably Brazil (1985). It’s a dystopian movie, but the population is suppressed by absurd amounts a bureaucracy (also the state surveiling and killing it’s people). You need to fill out a form to fill out a form, and every screen is tiny, but magnified by a lens to be small instead.

But what I really love about it is the the “terrorist” Archibald Tuttle (who, very much, is not the protagonist); a repair man, who risks execution by the state, zip lining around the city fixing things like the protagonist’s air condition.

I think we should all strive to be more like Tuttle in our daily lives.

Cockpit is great.

It’s pretty simplistic. It gives you an overview of your system ressources and handles libvirt VMs and Docker (i think. I used it with Podman, but in this context both should work).

My impression was that the container and VM interfaces were pretty simple, and I wouldn’t have liked it as my main interface for those services, but it would be perfect for getting an overview and restarting them!

Grounded danish plugs don’t fit Schuko sockets, but Schuko plugs fit danish sockets (but aren’t grounded).

This leads to a staggering amount of ungrounded devices in Denmark, as most are imported and making a variant for such a tiny country isn’t profitable.

Fun fact: the danish power plug was created by Lauritz Knudsen, a Danish company who had a monopoly. They are the reason Denmark uses this plug as the only country in the world, and Schuko only became legal to install in houses quite recently, so 99% of houses still use their standard.

LK has since been bought out by Schneider Electric but we are still stuck with our special plug and most imported devices are still ungrounded.

Thanks for listening to my Ted Talk.

Node-Red can do dashboards. I don’t know if it does data logging, but I would guess so since it can do dashboards. It also supports MQTT so it should handle ESPHome devices without a problem.

It’s made for automations (and great at it) but it can be a minimalist HA hub too.

Use a passphrase (not a password) and a physical security key, like a yubikey. It also supports TOTP or whatever 2fa Proton uses, you just connect it with a laptop or phone and it gives you a key.

A physical key is much more secure than 2fa from a password manager (although both are probably fine)

Nextcloud doesn’t verify your email and has tons of other nice features as well. ProtonDrive (/ProtonMail as another user suggested) probably doesn’t or you could use your Proton address for that.

You mention allowing weak passwords are a plus. Please use a weak password, especially without email as 2nd factor.

Have you considered using mnemonics for your passphrase?

Generate a number (i would use around 5) of random words (EFF has a wordlist, humans are really bad at randomness) and link them together using silly images. For example:

• sparrow
• window
• automobile

First, you link sparrow to window: imagine a sparrow trying to break through a window, not just flying into it by accident, no, this sparrow is mad and is set to destroy it.

Second, you link window to automobile: imagine an automobile with huge windows. The car is completely normal sized except every window is at least 3 meters tall. It looks absolutely ridiculous and you feel embrassed that youvhave to drive it everywhere.

Repeat this proces for the rest of the words. It helps remembering them if the image makes you feel something, like making you chuckle or feel angry that you have to deal with this stupid contraption (only in your mind, hopefully)

Also, make sure each “link” is distinct. Eg. Don’t make the second link an automobile driving into a window when the sparrow does the same. It will mess up the order and make you jump around between similar mental images.

Podman is CLI and API compatible with Docker (except where differences in implementation doesn’t allow it)

Running Podman as root is 99.9% the same as running Docker.

I have been running my homelab with Podman for several years and it is absolutely mature enough for a regular user.

Also, the docs are really good.

You already have some good suggestions, so i just want to mention openWRT which can be flashed on off-the-shelf router combo (just check their supported devices first, if you go this route)

Pareidolia is what you are looking for, friend.

Not OP but, consider using something like a YubiKey or similar hardware key for your second factor authentication.

They usually support multiple protocols so you only need to carry one around - and storing your second factor with your passwords is like putting all your eggs in one basket.

Print out recovery codes or get an ekstra hardware key for backup and you get great security for surprisingly little effort.