docker-ce v29 update somehow messed up my homelab so badly that I had to downgrade to v28 to restore my system.

Sorry, I just noticed that now.

You may create a bootable/live USB with Mint [1] installed on it, and try it out to see if its works perfectly for you - from functional and performance POV.

With Linux, at least you will continue to get security patches. For Win 7 and 10 are out of support now.

[1]https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/burn.html

Self hosting essentially stores all of your data on your hard drive, but it also allows access to that via local network (while at home) and over internet via secured tunnel (e.g. Wireguard tunnel, Tailscale) while away from home.

Thanks for the info.

The good news is Nvidia consumer grade GPUs don’t even support vGPU and can’t be passed though if Host OS is using it.

My 3070Ti also doing just fine - both for Gaming and for running Llama.

Now, to be honest, I never had a chance to use AMD GPU on Linux, so I can’t really say if it is at par with AMD GPU performance or not.

When it comes to Nvidia driver for Linux, my suggestion is - always stick to the version you find stable enough.

In my case, Last Nvidia 580 driver version works smoothly on my Desktop. Earlier I was on 550.

On a side note, faulty RAM often cause system freeze/crash. You might want to run memtest from boot menu as well.

PGP integration? Thunderbird has in-built support for PGP, isn’t it?

BTW, most of my incoming emails are routed (and encrypted) via addy.io and never faced any issue in opening encrypted (and signed) emails in Thunderbird.

Off-topic: For RSS feed, you might want to have a look at Miniflux[1] if your also into self-hosting.

[1] https://github.com/miniflux/v2

Is it a docker based solution? If yes, can you please let me know if you faced any specific challenge in setting it up?

and a lot of random external drives

Somehow it rings home :-)

Thunderbird

Do you know if a similar report exists for Intel based CPUs?

Not sure about Fedora, but openSUSE Tumbleweed and Arch have this enabled for a while now: https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-TW-x86-64-v3-RPM

Miniflux - https://miniflux.app/

If you consider the core count in modern server grade CPUs, this makes sense.

Nate’s side of this story:

https://pointieststick.com/2025/09/16/a-few-corrections-about-the-transition-from-blue-systems-to-techpaladin

https://tailscale.com/ This is essentially a mesh Wireguard Tunnel connectivity that ensures only you can access your service remotely.

:D