Have you seen the ai girlfriends/boyfriends communities? I genuinely think the rate of chatgpt induced psychosis is really high, even if it doesn't lead to death
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Depending on the services, you should be able to make a backup and restore without needing to delete the real version until you're sure everything is working
As someone who also started proxmox fairly recently, I found that the community has these really cool scripts that you can use to get started. Obviously you're running bash scripts on your main node for some, so there are risks involved with that but in my experience it's been great.
I'll share my experience with my very unprofessional but working setup.
I have two locations, both using retired PCs. I don't need anything fancy, but some considerations could be GPU/encoding hardware if you wanted something like jellyfin/Plex. I use proxmox and proxmox backup server for managing everything and so far it's been working well. Definitely not plug and play like an aio nas but that's because a nas wasn't my only goal as I needed cameras (frigate) and homeassistant.
I would highly recommend headscale/tailscale (as others have suggested) as it "just works" when setup in my experience. This enables safe remote access without opening any ports on your families networks so you can troubleshoot if something did break.
Regardless of which solution you decide to use, the most important part about having a backup is testing. If you can't see when your backups fail or don't know how to recover you may as well not have a backup.
I use headscale and it's been working wonderfully for my nightly offsite backups and remote access.
I need a gif of a tungsten cube dropping from the top shelf of a vending machine and folding it in on itself
Yeah, I used to cry constantly as a kid and got so self conscious about it, thinking it's not something to do as a man or wtv. Now it's basically impossible to cry when I need it, extremely frustrating
Don't have advice, I just want to wish you luck. You're valid and deserve love, we all do.
Actually Indians
Euler's logo would be too complicated to fit in a simple png
John Green would be rolling in his grave if he were dead