Immich is so good. I love it

Yup I sure do

Off the shelf something like and EdgerouterX is great,

You could consider running Crowdsec as well on yr firewall that way known bots will be blocked

Alton Brown/Good Eats

Adam Ragusea

I don’t necessarily use them for specific recipes but they are detailed and explain why they like doing things a certain way. I think that is the biggest thing when you are learning to cook and not just follow recipes.

I’d also put Ann Reardon/How to Cook That in a similar spot but more geared toward baking.

I’m with you there

I love it, it’s so nice for quickly jumping between apps

Immich without a doubt

Works great with PIA, highly recommend

I run Dietpi on 3 PIs, one is a remote backup that is wireguarded into my network and my server runs BorgBackup to it

Do what you can to make this the place you want to be.

Pretty much, strange in the self-hosted community to have stuff like that happen.

Wireguard is super quick and easy to setup and use, I’d highly recommend to do that now. I don’t understand the recent obsession with Tailscale apart from bypassing cgNAT