For those of us behind double NAT (CGNAT) forwarding ports is not an option as we do not control forwarding on the second gateway. This will limit you to any of the solutions that include a device outside your network with a public port that tunnels traffic into your server.

If you don’t mind me asking, which model did you have these issues with? I’m sorry to hear you had a bad experience.

I like your idea, but minisforum has much better platforms for self hosting. The better options do cost twice as much. Not sure they are cost effective as far as purchase price goes.

I run one with an AMD chip set and very much like it. Its fairly low power usage, but I haven’t measured in a while. For what it’s worth, I really like mine.

Man, that really bums me out. I really like our Bambu printer. They are such a successful company already. I don’t see why they need to resort to these tricks.

I don’t find self hosting lemmy to use much of either.

Are you strictly self hosting with this device? If so there are whole operating systems that make this easy. TrueNAS Scale for example.

I would suggest broadening your search. Debian vs Ubuntu is not much of a difference in my opinion. Videos and just trying some can help you decide.

I love this software. I started self hosting it as a way to make grocery lists easier for my family.

So far I don’t have many recepies in it yet. We are planning to add a lot of regular meals to it to have a list to pick from easier.

I’m not quite sure what rules you mean to tighten up.