If you haven’t bought cameras yet then you can always check for one that works with thingino Open-source Firmware for Ingenic SoC IP Cameras

If your N100 mini server has an ITX motherboard with several SATA ports then changing the case to something like a Jonsbo N2 might be a solution that works better than USB.

Depends on the operating system of the NAS, but generally the NAS will want to format the drive. Even if you can somehow get it running without a disk format you’re generally in an unsupported configuration.

A big point of a NAS in my mind is to run some sort of redundancy, which means you will want to setup a RAID on the drives in the NAS, and that in turn means that my recommendation wouldn’t be to chuck existing drives into the NAS solution but to setup the NAS drives and then copy your data to it.

Dedicated NAS hardware storage is usually accessed over SMB, NFS or SFTP and most software has support for one of those protocols.
Some services can have hiccups when running against networked storage, f.e. Jellyfin might lose library metadata if the Jellyfin service’s library scan is started and the networked storage is unavailable.

We’ve done our first crypt this playthrough then we got busy building rest stops and roads, farming and all that. Good job getting to the mistlands!

First time meeting a monster can be a bit scary, especially the sea serpent on a stormy ocean, but you get used to them and soon enough they start to look like moving resource piñatas.

Practice blocking and dodging and prioritize having a good shield and good food buffs and most things work themselves out.

The wife and I has returned to Valheim on a selfhosted dedicated server during the holidays, not sure if an adventuring party is the party you were thinking about. I’ve been /dancing on the ship as she steers it over the ocean though.

Most of the “party” games I have require no self hosting, it’s just split/shared screen co-op on the TV, Gang Beasts is a favourite and depending on what friends are over Genital Jousting can also be booted up for some laughs.

If you’re in a situation where you can replace your router with a pfsense or opnsense as per that guide I would definitely go for it. I’ve setup some pfsense devices with openvpn servers and it’s been one of the smoother installs imo and they make the self-signed client certificate part really easy to get right.

I must be lucky with my ISPs then, no trouble using 443/tcp for me.
To my knowledge Wireguard runs over UDP.
edit: And the reason to use 443/tcp is because it’s a port that will be open as outgoing from wherever your client tries to call home.

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I have no idea what the FUTO guide is but I would make sure to setup the openvpn server so that you connect with user+password+client certificate.
That and being able to set it up to use 443/tcp are the primary benefits to openvpn compared to wireguard in my mind.

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