doodoo_wizard

You’re overthinking it.

Post whatever you found and just don’t use the banking app.

Make sure your motherboard can support resizable bar. Intels arc cards require it.

Especially for older hardware that may be hidden in a firmware or uefi/bios upgrade.

There’s a good write up on grc.com about it, or maybe security now ep.

You can do it for sure, but it’s a fight.

Proxmox gives you a nice (and limited!) front end to manage containers and virtualization, but it also lets you do other cool stuff like resource pooling, credential management and too much to really get into.

Really powerful enterprise and whole organization level management in that package.

It’s not the only game in town, but it’s free and well documented and I recommended bare metal Debian as a stepping stone as opposed to alternative because proxmox runs on top of Debian so knowing that system is very nice.

The overhead is real. On the other hand, all your little vms and containers are rarely doing something all at the same time so it doesn’t matter.

The downsides of not going straight to proxmox are all pretty much permutations of missing out on features or having to deal with a migration later on down the line when you do switch to it.

Those features are almost universally stuff you might decide to not use or to use in a particular way, so it’s easy to say “pump your brakes and get your feet underneath yourself first” before handing you a tool that can be configured (with the help of Reddit, stackexchange and llms) in infinite wrong ways.

Kind of like suggesting someone learn how to make a simple miter joint before handing them the universally loved and used cordless oscillating multi tool. The tool is really powerful, but the skills and foresight doing even just one miter joint will give you let you make better choices about how to use the oscillating multitool when you have it.

Migration from bare metal to literally anything else is incredibly well documented and not a big deal.

Often times for some of the stuff you said you’d be running there are guides for migrating that particular package from metal to containers, vms, or to proxmox itself.

I want to make it clear that everything you learn from bare metal Debian would transfer over and compliment learning skills directly with the proxmox package because proxmox runs on top of Debian and Debian would likely be the os your vms or containers are made from.

You don’t need to throw yourself in the deep end to learn how to swim.

E: there is the extremely rare possibility that you will have some crash or security problem due to lack of containers/vms. I say extremely rare and I mean extremely rare. My personal server which was bare metal for twenty years just recently had its first one and it was actually related to a problem with containerization as opposed to lack of it. Your mileage may vary but for home users who don’t have public IPs and services getting pounded on 24/7 it wasn’t even something I thought about.

I’m a big fan of gpl everything, but when sudo was getting installed in everything the argument that “this great security technology needs to be permissively licensed so there will be no reason for companies to not make its use standard practice” held a lot of weight!

Another stupendous reason to gpl uutils so that the decades of experence of hundreds of system programmers can be leveraged in the rewrite.

Eventually proxmox will be the right choice for you. Right now it’s not because you’re not skilled or knowledgeable enough to be able to navigate it.

That is not a dig or a slight, it’s a very powerful and complex package built on top of an already powerful and complex package.

Just do containerless normal person Debian then when everything’s running how you’d like and you’re ready you can migrate to proxmox.

The big benefit of doing that instead of jumping into proxmox with both feet immediately is that you’ll be learning more and be able to solve your own problems as you get to the point of using proxmox.

op, if you can’t see any spyware it’s probably fine.

Brb heading to the local group home to retrieve my r-word pass

Okay so, again, the overwhelming majority are telling you that you are outside the norms and need to change your behavior. You’re open to the possibility that your feelings are pointing you in the wrong direction here and everyone is telling you that’s what has happened.

In this situation what more is needed for you to change?

Again, are you open to the possibility that your feelings aren’t accurate considering, last time I read, all but two comments across half a dozen posts on different instances are telling you that?