I have been using Open EVSE for years and love them, They have a nicely documented API so i can control them with just about anything.

Now you get a 10 minute ad for a 2 minute video

Windows 98 second edition By then i was bored with windows and a friend told me about Linux and i haven’t looked back.

Don’t forget Wayland and security into the mix as well. That seems to have caused some of the biggest issues with apps. Don’t get me wrong though, security was desperately needed. X11 had no concept of security.

Have you played with NextCloud

The “allowed host” on the client side is to put the networks in you would like to route to. If you want to use the VPN tunnel for your default route it’s when you use the 0.0.0.0/0

I have been using Proxmox with a couple thousand VM’s and have been very happy with it.

I use OpenShot for all my video editing. It is open source and cross platform.

I had a friend that ran theirs though the air conditioning ducts. For mine though I ran them in the corners and under area rugs.

Maybe you could do port knocking to have the firewall open the port to that IP after you hit a series of ports in the proper sequence.