Totally fair. I also started with Debian for a Minecraft server, at the request of my partner. I might try out Icarus, is it cross platform?

Hehe tbh I only run 5 😅 I found it useful when I had to diagnose some cpu hogging off one of the containers and the ease of backups. Even though have not needed it yet.

Have you thought about running proxmox rather than Debian? I found it to be useful for managing/tracking/backups of containers.

The man pages are also really dense. I agree with the author that for time efficiency LLM is better. Although optimal mode would be to feed it the man page and then ask the specific question.

What do you mean? FOSS? Open hardware or able to integrate with existing foss like home assistant?

For the latter, I’ve used ecowitt based weather stations myself. they’re very durable, give reliable data and came with a quality manual for not much money.

They come with an app but you can just decide not to use it, all the data is available on the device, hosted as a web server. It has good integrations with HA which is what I use for long term storage together with influxdb.