In my experience the main issue are configuration conflicts not package issues. They’re usually just annoying issues not breaking issues.

I was starting to think I was the only person around here that wasn’t falling for conspiracy theories.

I work in the physics world and I am continually surprised by how dumb smart people can be, especially if ego is involved.

Curious what you use instead? Been looking for something that’s convenient to use, full resolution pictures and videos, desktop apps, etc. Sadly, WhatsApp is currently my leading choice with this news.

Family currently uses Google Chat and it’s pretty terrible. Buggy on iPhone and no desktop app.

If Google doesn’t keep your watch history then how it can make recommendations? It seems like people who don’t want Google to keep the watch history are probably also people who don’t want Google to feed them videos algorithmically.

I’m all for self hosting but I just recently moved from a self hosted NAS to a dedicated small Synology box and I like it. I still self host several services but now I can do that on a laptop that sips power vs my large tower enclosure. I also bought a dedicated MikroTik router rather than self hosting pfsense or Untangle. Despite now having 3 machines instead of one, in aggregate, it still uses less power than my tower server. The laptop provides its own battery backup and now my router and NAS only use a small amount of energy so I can get a UPS that’ll last much longer. I also like the separation so rebooting one device doesn’t take everything down, etc.

I’m not saying one approach is right or wrong, just throwing out a different point of view.

All the services you point are great. Proxmox is a must imo.

None of your workloads will require anything from the GPU so I doubt you’ll experience much, if any, throttling. That said, that means you are also paying more for the GPU in the M2 Max that you won’t be using vs the M2 Pro.