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I started using FreeBSD on a VPS a couple months ago, and I've moved my home router to be FreeBSD -- PF is /so much better/ than anything else wrt understandability, and putting miscellaneous services the router runs in jails is pretty nice, and feels simpler to set up "right" than the same with Docker (e.g. no messing around with Docker volumes, only to discover you've accidentally deleted years of family photos).

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> you've accidentally deleted years of family photos

Oof, that hurts.

I'm going to add a check right now to PhotoStructure to assert that people's library is not stored within the container to prevent this from happening to my users.

It's good stuff, but I would also suggest tinkering with OpenBSD and its offerings. A bit simpler, but still fun. It's all good stuff and fun to play with.

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