Ideally see if you can do a battery charge limit. Lithium batteries are happiest around 40-60% charge. If you can limit it that low then you keep your built in UPS, don’t risk the CPU running at a crawl, and the battery is happy. Even just the normal 80% that good laptops offer will be sufficient.

What about a nice middle ground option? It has all the features that most sane people would want, but not the kitchen sink.

I hate diagnosing 3rd party jank so if I had to pick one or the other then I’d pick all in one. Oh you updated and now your whole ui is broken? Good fucking luck guessing what adon wasn’t updated for this change.

My dynamic IP almost never changes. I’ve had 3 in the last 10 years. How often does yours change?

There’s also dynamic dns if yours changes often.

Once you accept the certificate it being not blessed isn’t much of an issue. And just turning it on should just generate a self signed certificate on anything not a piece of shit.

Then you’re losing pcie lanes, and you have to deal with split storage or software raid which doesn’t always work the best.

VMs mostly. What are you hosting on Minecraft that isn’t using >=4 gigs?

Also ZFS.

Wireguard + OpenVPN works well for me.

OpenVPN fully supports multiple simultaneous connections. But Wireguard is such a pain in the ass with this. But Wireguard dgaf about OpenVPN connections.

I’ve been looking at VPNs, but it feels weird, to route everything through my home IP

You don’t have to route all traffic through the VPN. Only traffic for your home network.

A slower CPU sucks, but swapping sucks even more. Is the ram upgradeable? You can get 16gb ddr3 sticks of ram. Idk how much EOL/the ram pocalypse has affected their pricing though.