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Build Your Privacy Machine Room: Docker + Portainer on Proxmox LXC

Install Docker & Portainer on Proxmox LXC (2026)

🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: What This Guide Builds (And Why It Matters) Your Proxmox server is the building. This guide builds the machine room inside it. Every privacy-first application you will ever self-host runs on top of...

Install Immich on Proxmox with Docker & ZFS (2026)

The Privacy Problem With Google Photos 🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: Google Photos is not a free storage service. It is a data collection engine that happens to store your photos. Every image you upload is analyzed by...

Build a Privacy-First DIY NAS on Proxmox with Native ZFS and a Lightweight LXC FileServer 🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: Your First Step Away from Google Drive and Google Photos Google Drive scans your files. Google Photos trains...

🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: The QNAP TS-669L has been end-of-life for years. QNAP stopped shipping QTS updates for it long ago, and anyone still running the original firmware is doing so on borrowed time. I had one...

TERRAMASTER F4-424 Pro as a Proxmox Host

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase something through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend products we genuinely use and love. TL;DR Verdict The TerraMaster F4-424 Pro is...

🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: I bought the TerraMaster F4-424 Pro primarily for its hardware. My plan was always to wipe TOS 6 and install Proxmox. But before I did that, I wanted to give TOS 6 a...

TERRAMASTER F4-424 Pro Review: The Best Proxmox Mini PC Base for Your Homelab in 2026? 🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: My old QNAP TS-669L had a good run. I bought it roughly 12 years ago, and three years...

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In Part 1 of this series, we proved that the €37 AVATTO HA 70 is a surprisingly capable little Home Assistant server. But a server without devices is just a plastic box sitting in your closet. Today, we are going...

In November 2025, I spotted something on AliExpress that seemed too good to be true: the AVATTO Home Assistant Box HA 70, priced at just €37.56. It looks exactly like a generic Android TV box, but the listing claimed it...