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Im by no means trying to defend our general reliance on Chinese manufacturing nor attempting to make a case rhat using their abused labor force is fine and good.

I am also very much not in the business of defending the ultra rich mega corpos legitimately exploiting anything and everything they can for profit.

I am only defending what appeaers to be an unfair and unnecessary attack of a persons character. It is true she is using Chinese manufacturing but if her words are to believed at her current scale bringing that to the US is impossible for her. I am not even remotely educated in any of these topics so i can do little more than read the article and respond but assuming her words are true then her actions are understandable.

The title is not original to the article. Claiming she is "exploiting cheap labor" is rather misleading. To quote a section of the article:

The other option, the one Trump wants, is a pipe dream: manufacturing her products in the US. Benike would prefer to manufacture here, too. But a mountain of logistics, near impossibilities, stand in her way.

Food-grade silicone, which she uses for her products, is not available domestically. When she looked into the cost of importing the material when she first started, it was more expensive than importing a finished product, and the prices have gone up since then. Manufacturing facilities in the US with the compression mold machines she needed require much larger runs than she can commit to. The minimum requirements for factories here was 20,000 – in China, she could do a couple thousand at a time.

Are you using pihole to also create custom local DNS records?

Set up what you want on what you already have and if your workload is more than your hardware can handle then upgrade.

Overall most of what you rattled off isn't too resource heavy but 12gb of memory isnt exactly a lot and i dont know what your minecraft server will eat up.

Alternatively look up the recommended minimum specs for each of your desired applications and add up the needs.

Additionally if this isnt going to be a headless system and you want a desktop gui that consumes resources as well.

That sounds more or less to be exactly what I'm doing with NPM currently. I don't see how it's easier to configure as all I did was fire up the NPM container, log in, and add my host targets.

NPM also handles SSL both standard http verification as well as DNS auth for wildcards.

Whats wrong with NPM?

Its just a computer, nothing more. You would do exactly the same thing as you would on a desktop or vps.

No you do not have to plug in both power cords but if both aren't plugged in it may blare an alarm. If so plug in the other or just remove the redundant PSU.

+1 for restic. I have additionally started using autorestic with it and have been happy how it operates.

No its Philips. Its odd shape is because its been stripped/rounded/damaged. You'll probably want to consider replacing it.

Reminds me of a tip for a soldering gun.

Haha I think it's plenty durable so long as you aren't dropping it all the time.

The rattle is probably just the side buttons which do have a little wiggle due to the tolerances of the case.

The touch wheel on my was a little loose too which was a know issue. I just put a little piece of double sides tape on the top between it and the case and now it's all good.

I don't necessarily expect it to be supported indefinitely but they only just got the hardware into backers hands and are now taking in a lot of feedback so I don't think it unreasonable to expect some reasonable improvements in the shorter term.

Time will tell though. Personally I'd be quite happy with it after some bug fixes and a few small features. And if worse comes to worse it will become a personal coding project for myself.