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The IoT edition of Windows 11 runs in 4GB ram and performs ok. I don't recommend more ram, I recommend either Linux or LTSC IoT.

You mean like the one that Plex provides with Plex pass?
I haven't been able to find a free proxy provider that is ok with streaming video. Closest I've found is CloudFlare, and video streaming isn't permitted on their free tier.
Plex pass is a lot cheaper for me than paying for CloudFlare's non-free tiers, especially since I got myself a lifetime pass 3 years ago.

Plex's remote play works for me when I'm away from home - which is on starlink. Jellyfish does not, because starlink uses cgnat. 🤷

I'm more concerned about 'AI' telling people incorrect information - and that information being further indexed and presented as fact elsewhere.

It's a compounding problem

I just asked 2 IT guys "hey, do you know what punycode is?" And the answer I received was "I've heard of it but don't know what it is."
Thank you for informing me, but I'm far from alone in not recognizing it or having knowledge of what punycode is.

Looks like a totally legit domain. Much trusting.

I run audiobookshelf through it and it works flawlessly.

Funny how we've forgotten already the rage and backlash from users when it was revealed you could never completely disable telemetry in windows 10.
Now the general attitude is 'well, it's not as bad as 11.'
For the better part of a decade I used windows only for gaming, and now I've dropped it for that too.
I'm not sure why some people still refuse to consider using an alternative to windows these days.

I'm on their free tier. If you don't have a domain you need to get one, but CloudFlare does offer domain registration basically at-cost.
Because I'm on free, I can't break down my analytics like a paid account can. i can say though that for the past 30 days my account has generated 886k requests and 47.56GB of bandwidth. I can't tell you how much of that is nextcloud and how much is other stuff, like audiobookshelf, but hopefully this helps answer you.

100% this. I have one running in a lxc, and I expose it to the world through a CloudFlare tunnel so I needn't worry about dyndns or people probing my public IP.

We can put that off until the Chinese are dealt with.

For basic hosting of stuff+storage management, TrueNAS has a highly polished product that lets you install docker containers with ease.

They have a curated collection that includes every piece of software you mentioned, plus the ability to install dockerhub images as 'custom' images.

Originally I started with a single Pentium 4 with 4x1.5TB disks, and it's grown over time. Now at home I have 2 TrueNAS machines giving me 80TB of storage, and 3 HP elitedesk Minis running proxmox for general VMs.
I also have a managed switch, which lets me pipe the raw Internet into it, and deliver it to the proxmox hosts so I can run a virtual router with high-availability.

OpenZFS, which TrueNAS uses as its primary storage filesystem, has recently gained the ability to increase existing disk arrays by adding additional disks (as opposed to replacing all disks with larger ones) and this makes it even more flexible for future growth.

I will say though, that if the machine is dated and you load up 'all the things' in it, you might not be impressed by performance, so be sure to manage your expectations.

I also suggest that you consider making yourself a roadmap, so that you can plan out what hardware you'll need to implement the 'next big thing'

Also - the steamlink you mentioned - I'm not sure what you're chasing there exactly, but if your steam rig is already in your home, the only thing you can do to improve latency is provide Ethernet to both the streaming sender and receiver.

Good luck!