I’ve been playing with Stalwart-Email as a combined SMTP/IMAP server. Its open source and written in rust, still pretty early in development and I haven’t played with it enough to give any real opinion on the pluses or minuses compared to other software, but its worth taking a look at.

Which eventually leads to the Dark Side

The tutorial series by DivRhino was really helpful for me – https://divrhino.com/articles/rest-api-docker-go-fiber-from-scratch – she has several tutorials that build on each other.

I dont think the covering of webcams with tape on windows is necessarily about a malware or an exploit watching you, but more about windows itself monitoring and selling off everything you do.

Do you recommend any resources about this? I’d be interested in learning how to implement this.

While I normally agree on #2, it doesnt really apply to Tailscale. Tailscale isn’t completely free, they have a free tier to generate business but it’s limited to 3 users per tailnet. Also its cryptographically impossible for them to snoop on your traffic.

Can you make the domain somehow personalized to you so you can say its for an online resume to further your education and employability? If you happen to host other personal stuff that won’t cost you anything extra, just make sure you have a fancy looking CV at the root.

They happen to be running Fedora Kionite on their desktop since I got sock of troubleshooting windows 😂

I laughed, then had to explain the joke to my parents, which meant I had to explain what Linux was, what daemons were, and why I was giggling

Good point, I like the ability to choose between VMs and containers. If I had TrueNAS in one VM and Nextcloud in another, how would you link Nextcloud to TrueNAS? SMB share?

Would you use something other than TrueNAS, then?

From the brief research I just did, this does seem like a good direction to take. However I’m doing a lot of learning right now and I’m trying to stick with just one or two technologies at a time and adding in Kubernetes and Helm is a little beyond me right now.

Every time I bring it up with friends or coworkers they’ve never heard of it

Dirt Rotten Scoundrels - Michael Cain and Steve Martin play two con men in the French Riviera trying to out-do one another.

Yeah looking like that’s what I’ll have to do, I just hate having dongles all over the place

This looks interesting and promising, thanks!