Yeah it’s a special game, and a masterclass in “show, don’t tell” exposition.

This has been a great alternative for me so far. Very straightforward and functional.

Overview is here https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/roth-iras , but generally 59 and 1/2 is when you can start taking distributions without penalty.

Yep! I have one that I use for music when I go running. It’s over 10 years old now, and still works fine. Phones are too heavy for that use case.

That’s awesome. Thanks for posting the pics and assembly.

Depends on what sort of underlying file system you want to use on the drive. For Linux filesystems (ext4, btrfs, zfs etc), here’s a good start: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt

For NTFS, BitLocker is already baked in to Windows.

That’s awesome to hear. I’m looking to set up some self-hosted stuff, and I see a lot of recommendations for Tailscale for the VPN element.

That’s interesting. I had thought of doing TrueNAS Scale as a VM running in Proxmox, but you’re suggesting have TrueNAS itself be the bare-metal hypervisor? What do you find annoying about Proxmox?