They're the only other big plane manufacurer beside Airbus and being the only remaining US based one, probably important for national defense as well.
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For hard drives Toshiba, though SeaGate would be my second pick. Fuck WD.
On SSDs I go on Wikipedia and look at a list of flash + controller manufacturers and pick one of those. (Samsung, Kioxia (I think), Sandisk)
One side of the exchange always needs to have a reachable port so by not having one you're limiting the peers you can seed to and also the peers you can download from.
I'm pretty happy with XCP-ng with their XenOrchestra management interface. XenOrchestra has a free and enterprise version, but you can also compile it from source to get all the enterprise features. I'd recommend this script: https://github.com/ronivay/XenOrchestraInstallerUpdater
I'd say it's a slightly more advanced ESXi with vCenter and less confusing UI than Proxmox.
Using a CPU is possible thanks to llama,cpp, but you'd still want more RAM than the Pi offers.
Graphene does not offer any support at all though once the manufacturer stops releasing new versions. With Lineage I've seen two or three more major Android versions ported than the manufacturer released.
I really like XCP-ng. Imo the interface is more understandable and polished than Proxmox. Similar to vSphere + vCenter, but more advanced options as well.
You'll want to use a quantised model on your GPU. You could also use the CPU and offload some parts to the GPU with llama.cpp (an option in oobabooga). Llama.cpp models are in the GGUF format.
ADDS is basically the only thing I might use Windows Server for.
Sadly Audible and removing DRM with ffmpeg.
If you do go down the VLAN route, make sure to define enforce the networks on the Proxmox and firewall side. If you set the VLAN ID on the client instead, an attacker could change it to a different network.
Not sure how exactly Proxmox works for this, but generally you'd distinguish between tagged and untagged ports.
You'd use untagged ports for client/vm access. Any packet gets the VLAN tag set to what you define.
A tagged port would be used to connect Proxmox to the router. This keeps the VLAN tags in packets intact for the routing you'll need to do.
I use Kavita to host my ripped ebooks and other reading stuff, can absolutely recommend.
Not sure how you can rip your existing Tolino collection, I only ever deal with the amazon DRM.
Some authors, like Brandon Sanderson, offer DRM-free books on their own stores, but discoverability is way worse for obvious reasons.