Justin

Trump and Netanyahu have alienated 92 million people from the west and kicked a massive, nuclear, hornets nest. I worry that the Tehran regime has nothing left to lose at this point. They’re on the ropes militarily, but they’re not out of power.

would probably take a month or two

all home routers have NAT which functions as a firewall, but VPSes don’t cone with any firewall by default, so you’d have to set one up. Also VPS ranges seem to hotter for scanning.

That is not the argument stated in the article

Sánchez argued that Spain doesn’t need to spend 5 percent of its GDP to fulfill its so-called capability targets, meaning new objectives of weapons inventory agreed by NATO defense ministers earlier this month.

He also wrote that a 5 percent defense spending goal would jeopardize the country’s welfare system, force the government to increase taxes on the middle class, scale back commitments to the green transition and curtail international development cooperation.

“It is the legitimate right of every government to decide whether or not they are willing to make those sacrifices,” he wrote.

Rushing to 5 percent would also force Madrid to buy off-the-shelf equipment instead of fostering its own industrial base, as well as take money away from welfare policies, Sánchez also wrote.

The Spanish Socialist party is in a coalition with the junior left-wing Sumar party, which opposes increased defense spending and whose members are expected to attend a counter-summit for peace in parallel to the NATO summit.

Your stuff is more likely to get scanned sitting in a VPS with no firewall than behind a firewall on a home network

Trump can just veto the bill if he doesn’t want to sanction Russia, they should stop trying to water it down.

Wouldn’t be funny at all.

Trump was president during the Hong Kong crackdown, they were begging for help.

Check out NixOS. It can build qcow images from scratch for you to import into proxmox

https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators

I have 8 bare-metal servers and I do everything automated with NixOS, I rarely ever access the servers directly.

Here are the nixos configs for my DHCP server and kubernetes servers that you can use as a base.

https://codeberg.org/jlh/h5b/src/branch/main/porygonz

https://codeberg.org/jlh/h5b/src/branch/main/nodes

For what it’s worth, Ive been using Ansible off and on at work for 8 years, and I think it’s pretty outdated and clunky these days, there are much smarter ways to manage workloads such as kubernetes, cloud-init, terraform, and NixOS. If you don’t want to get into Kubernetes then definitely learn NixOS.