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To each their own but I think I prefer to stick to Nextcloud and just continue to keep things organized the old fashioned way for the most part.

Though for documents those all get fed to paperless-ngx

Don't sleep on the Teamspeak 6 beta. It is very close to being a total discord replacement and in its current form is still extremely usable.

Check out the Teamspeak 6 beta. I've checked out probably all the most popular discord alternatives at this point (as I refuse to use it and am always looking for something to convince others to get off of it) and the TS6 beta is almost right there as far as core features and experience goes.

That sounds fine. I would only say don't use Syncthing to actually make your backups. My preference and recommendation is restic, possibly combined with the helper utility autorestic.

Lidarr isn't really meant for that so you're always going to fighting things I unfortunately

NPM likes to eat the let encrypt requests which is what I'm assuming is breaking the cert gen inside the container. I believe you can work around this, but honestly I'd recommend just moving to a more advanced but more flexibile proxy solution.

Personally I recommend Traefik. There isn't a friendly gui to help you but once you wrap your head around it things just work. It also allows for defining proxy parameters right in your compose file via labels so it takes out the need to log into NPM and manage proxy entries there. Just deploy you're compose fils and you're off.

As far as making what you've got just work, you can either try to get NPM to stop intercepting the LE cert requests or hack up the signal-tls-relay container and jam the NPM certs into it. I wouldn't recommend either of these options though. I've been in a similar scenario and it's this among other reasons why I moved off NPM. I started with NPM because I thought it would be simple and easy and it is, right up until you want to do a thing even slightly outside of its fairly limited box.

And as someone who uses Linux for literally everything I know better than to preach as if Linux is a full replacement for Windows. It's not and there are absolutely reasons to still use windows. OP isn't asking about the OS and given the nature of the question probably isn't ready for such a switch in the first place.

Can you build it yourself for cheaper?

Also, IMO 16GB is bare minimum in 2026 if you are using Windows. I'd really go to 32GB.

Not yet but I plan to. Just haven't gotten around to setting it all up yet.

Instead of 8080:8080 port mapping you do 127.0.0.1:8080:8080

To my knowledge there is no such thing available however you have just enlightened me about TS6's featureset. It sounds like it is the exact solution you are asking for (and one I'm going to immediately try out myself.)

So you're going to start backing it up immediately then right? Right?!?!?