Your CPU should be perfectly capable of that. I ran Proxmox with some VMs and containers on an i5-2400 with 16GB RAM just fine.
You could run on bare Debian as well but virtualization will give you more flexibility. If you get a Zigbee Dongle or the like, you can pass it through to the VM Home Assistant is running in.
I don't know MergeFS but usually the recommendation is ZFS.
Cool thread idea! TOR has already been mentioned, a relay seems to be save to run in most of the world.
This thread recently popped up and had some other nice ideas: https://lemmy.ca/post/40649656
Regardless of how you host Nextcloud, what you described is one thing I really like about Nextcloud: the major part of it being synced to several devices. As long as you have a computer with the desktop client that's on every once in a while, your stuff is saved across different devices.
I've had a similar thing happen once btw, deleted the wrong server. It was "just" monitoring data, but I had spent a lot of effort building it properly. I eventually started over it, but knowing the whole thing is gone feels really bad.
Does it? I think it logs you out and after logging in again, you need to provide your encryption key/verify with other device again in order to access the history. Or wdym with breaking?
Ah! I don't know what exactly these mean, would be interesting to see what Element says what those mean. I don't think Element actually adds these to your messages etc but I don't know the protocol enough.
Does IRC have performant voicechat?
Does it? On Android, it never asked me to grant location permission unless I try to share my location to another user. Similar with contacts and calendar, it's working perfectly fine without them. Where exactly does it link those identifiers and with what?
Thanks a lot for your response! I too was a bit misguided by the way Proxmox presents LXCs but I'm mostly on VMs and haven't explored LXCs further so far.
What's your motivation for the switch? Second time in a short while I've heard about people migrating to incus.
You can have the best of both worlds - scheduled auto updates on a time that usually works for you.
With growing complexity, there are so many components to update, it's too easy to miss some in my experience. I don't have everything automated yet (in fact, most updates aren't) but I definitely strive towards it.
I think auto update is perfectly fine, just check out what kind of versioning the devs are using and pin the part of the version that will introduce breaking changes.
You have some options that aren't in the installer e.g. full disk encryption