spaghettiwestern

You left out DDNS. It’s free, easy to set up with lots of detailed guides online, and works as well as a static IP.

The anti li-ion crowd here is really strange.

Dell bios settings often include battery charge limit settings. I have mine set to a 70% limit which provides hours of backup with the display off.

Modern laptop batteries when kept cool and undamaged are extremely safe despite what you might read in these comments. Parking your car in your garage is hundreds of times more hazardous.

I’ve had so many instances of free to use, lifetime licenses, and purchased software that have turned into subscription services that I refuse to install anything that requires an account unless it can’t be avoided. The fact that Plex required an account be created to view my own local content years before they started charging for use made it obvious subscription fees were coming.

Jellyfin works great. Combined with Wireguard it works great anywhere.

DDNS (Dynamic DNS), one 3rd party service I do use.

My network is reached by URL, not IP (although IP still works). When my IP changes the router updates the DDNS service in minutes. Lots of providers out there and it’s easy to switch if needed. I like DuckDNS. It’s free or you can choose to donate a bit to cover their expenses.

Nomachine with local & Wireguard access only.

When I was running a mesh topology I often had the same issue. Switching to a star topology fixed pretty much everything.

I’ve been using Syncthing and it’s been almost flawless but was going to switch to Nextcloud for everything. Looks like I’ll be sticking with Syncthing for the foreseeable future.

Thanks for posting this.