Beans

I run Proxmox on my router (an Intel NUC) with an OpenWRT VM (though I used to run OPNSense, and might try going back to it later). It makes things more complicated, but I’m familiar enough with Proxmox that I’m okay with that complexity.

Setup right, I don’t think you’d experience any performance hit in terms of your network, and your 8th gen i7 is likely better than my Celeron J4025, so I imagine your Web UIs will be fast enough even virtualized.

I virtualized my router because it let me experiment with different router options way more easily (I could switch from OPNSense to OpenWRT and fall back on my old OPNSense VM if I messed anything up, I could setup VLANs in a cloned VM and fallback to my old VM if I couldn’t get it working, etc.). I’m a very indecisive person loll. But if there’s no reason for you to virtualize it, then I wouldn’t bother unless you just want to.

I vaguely remember my Intel NIC gave problems with OPNSense, but running virtualized meant I could use Linux drivers (via Proxmox) and give OPNSense a VirtIO NIC that it would be happy with. Oh, and it’s nice being able to run the Unifi Web Server in an LXC on the router so it doesn’t go down whenever I mess with my server PC.

Personally, I only run network-specific things on my Proxmox instance on the router (so, OpenWRT/OPNSense, and the Unifi Web Server). My more home-lab stuff is run on a completely separate machine. Like others have said, I don’t want my internet to go down when I mess with my server.

If you do end up virtualizing ur router, in my personal experience using VirtIO network devices for the VM seems to work best for me (the E1000 seemed to hamper my upload/download speeds quite a bit, VirtIO made it pretty much line-speed — that could just be OpenWRT quirks or my NIC, idk).

Reddit made it simple for me; they banned the app I browsed it with (Boost, along with every other 3rd party app).

I don’t browse on my desktop, and I refuse to use their 1st party app, so using Reddit became too inconvenient.

Touché.

Me and my 100GB of ‘Linux ISOs’:

I prefer buying CDs for music & physical games for my consoles when I can (physical games on PC is kind of a distant dream now…). For TV, I think the only option to actually own your media is through BluRay/DVD. The digital stores (like Amazon, Vudu i think?) only let you watch on their platform & don’t give you any files.

I do have a small number of vinyls & cassettes, but that’s more for novelty than any practicality.

Mostly rock & metal (Examples being: Architects, Beartooth, Chaosbay, While She Sleeps, Dark Tranquillity, Ice Nine Kills, Periphery, Babymetal, & Hanabie.. Though, throw a piano solo in and I’m sold (Corelia’s “Treetops”, for instance — I need to explore more symphonic metal. Not that Corelia is– anyway).

With that said, I’ve also got a few outliers that mostly include game & TV OSTs (Hoyo-MiX, Crush 40, kessoku band). Add in a few tracks from LiSA, and “Ghost” by Hoshimachi Suisei & the cover by Rachie to really leave my Spotify Recommended dazed & confused.

TL;DR: The spectrum of rock & metal all the way from Incubus to Lorna Shore, with sprinkles of J-Pop, Electronic, & random OSTs to really hospitalize my Spotify Recommended.

I feel like heavy metal would be like biting into a gumball and realizing it’s a jawbreaker/gobstopper.

(Love the genre; just thought this description was funny)

Absolutely agree — that entire album is amazing tho

Spotify links cuz I’m lazy — not in any particular order:

• Architects - “Spit the Bone”
• Chaosbay - “New Age” Do take a listen to the whole album if you like this song. It’s a concept album and the music really flows quite well from track to track.
• Beartooth - “Below”
• Beartooth - “In Between”
• Ice Nine Kills - “The American Nightmare” This band’s interesting, in that their last two albums’ tracks are all inspired from/are about various horror movies.
• While She Sleeps - “Sleeps Society”
• Periphery - “Wax Wings”
• Bury Tomorrow - “Begin Again”
• Everture - “Empire”
• Dark Tranquility - “Eyes of the World”
• Countless Skies - “Tempest”
• Shylmagoghnar - “Transience”

beer proceeds to shatter on the ground

Yo momma so fat — she managed to tip the Iceberg.

(Club Penguin — though, it might’ve been obvious from my profile picture lol. It was just too easy.)