I have a low tech solution. I use this https://github.com/gamosoft/NoteDiscovery

Every time a thought comes to my mind, I create a new document and add a tag to it. I come back to it from time to time.

my real hobby is collecting hobbies

You just described a friend of mine.

• Astro photography
• Guitar
• Piano
• GPU for LLM
• Old Nintendo 3DS

Saving money? What’s that?

Green solution? That sounds like communism

Edge VPN: Instead of Patricia from marketing, your traffic will be analyzed by Sam from security.

If this wasn’t the top answer, i would have been very disappointed

I remember that MBAs were in hot demand during that time, specially after wasting 4 years in engineering.

The 2008 crisis and how the government reacted is partly why I live frugally

I understand this sentiment. As someone who didn’t see wealth during their childhood, people get confused as I still travel by public transport instead of driving. I just assume that things can go sideways at any moment. Yes, it can seem like I’m a bit paranoid, but it’s not illogical.

Thanks for sharing.

That’s why I have a significant chunk of my little personal wealth in fixed deposit. The market is too wacky for the little guys to make any money.

Holy jumpscare Batman!

I feel personally attacked, but I can block it with my thick wallet.

Ahh, a fellow Darknet Diaries enjoyer.

I meant it as a joke but one should be vigilant when handing out/ their personal information.

Nice try, FBI

wanted a free solution

ends up buying a domain

Welcome to the club, buddy!

Cortisol reduces empathy

That makes a lot of sense

People who don’t take care of themselves can’t take care of others.

I am looking for a PDF editor which has support for digital signature. There are some which perform add a gpg signature, but clients want to see the green tick that Adobe provides. That’s why I have a internet-less Windows 7 VM having only Adobe Reader and Filezilla.

I’m probably too new to be offering advice, so I’ll just pile on the encouragement. You can do it!

That’s what I need the most. This project could be a bit ambitious for me, but I’ll go slow. Thanks a lot!

I think you have a typo here, eth1 is WAN not WLAN

Corrected!

When the VM goes down you can still configure the network manually on your PC and access proxmox directly

Yes, that’s why having this MGMT port is so important. Time to make some more cables :P

This is why the hardcoded ip will still work.

For some of the critical infra, I will probably hardcode the IP

I saw that you added the detail that you’re also running another vm - AFAIR you could route that via the management port as well with via proxmox without added complexity.

I’ve elaborated upon this in this comment in this thread. Please check and let me know your opinions.

I have one more doubt.

(Nothing setup as of now, just checking all possible angles)

Since, as per your suggestion, I have passed the NIC to OPNsense, so Proxmox won’t see the dual NIC card. The onboard ethernet port eth3 is connected to a switch and Proxmox will use eth3.

Here’s a fresh diagram

You can see that I have a Ubuntu VM. How will the PC communicate with the VM? (Links E and D are hypothetical. I don’t know which one is better given my scenario). Will it be C -> B -> D or C -> A -> E?

Case #1: C -> B -> D

The switch must differentiate between uplink traffic/proxmox traffic/other physical devices connected to the switch (phone/TV). I prefer this solution because even if OPNsense is down, I can still access the Ubuntu server. But the switch must handle this complexity. I will be getting a managed switch anyway.

Case #2: C -> A -> E

The interface eth2, which OPNsense is using, must have some sort of routing table which redirects to links E or F depending upon destination IP (Probably implemented using virtual bridge or virtual switch). This is simpler for the switch but if OPNsense is down, i lose direct network access to the VM. I can probably access it via Proxmox web-interface.

Can you tell me which one is preferred or which one you would have done?

Sorry for my ramblings.

I have saved your comment and will try to implement them when setting it up. Thank you!

Have done something similar, you’ll discover the joy of have no internet while you do server maintenance, upgrades or disaster recovery and worst case, hardware failures.

I may purchase another lower powered device to prevent a single point of failure, but I want to get this thing working. Sorry, too excited with Proxmox now :D Also, in the worst case scenario, I’ll just use my current router while I manage my OPNsense