Having the ability to run docker containers and VMs on the same device is incredibly useful
You've been able to do this on NAS's for years.....
But not from being disabled which is what we’re talking about. If it can’t run it can’t do any of that.
Why? You have a copy, you have an offsite copy, and you can browse and download from the copy at any time of any device via the cloud.
Don’t take sleeping pills is the simple answer.
Just buy an external SSD and sign up to backblaze. Honestly if all you want is storage and backups there’s not much better or easier.
You obviously don’t though lol. Using a VPN is not exposing it to the internet - it’s a private network. It’s even in the name!
None of those articles say a thing about on-device apps being able to overrule being disabled by the OS.