It’s definitely not legal, especially if your school is funded by the public. That “free internet and power” is paid by someone, and if it’s the public, it’s kind of a dick move.

They can’t see what’s in your ssh or VPN tunnels necessarily, but they can usually see where the packets are originating from and going to. So if you’re say, accessing it from home directly to the server via VPN or SSH, if you’re not doing so using a full VPN service like Mull, they’ll be able to see the origin IP of your SSH or VPN handshakes, and thus your home IP.

Thanks. I actually have advance bait stations, however it should be noted that this won’t really work for active infestations because they already have food from your home.

Interesting, even the commercial grade ones die that fast?

Yeah, it has a built in pump, so currently I’m pumping it outside into our french drain. I highly recommend dehumidifiers with pumps so you can drain the water anywhere.

That’s another thing I’m definitely paranoid about, and it kind of does come with similar paranoia. Come to think of it, there’s moss growing on part of our roof… really should get that cleaned up.

Sorta, that’s how the foam kinda works - you drill small holes in the drywall and then inject the foam into the void. The foam expands about 30:1 to cover much of the bottom part of the void.

Absolutely, this is good advice. I forgot to add that I bought one of those giant commercial dehumidifiers once discovered. Since it’s so oversized it keeps much of the house pretty dry.

Ah, yeah, OpenBSD would do it. You’d basically be limited to running it in a VM which would have severe overhead. For Linux based stuff, though, it has minimal overhead.

Interesting, what OS are you running? I’ve never ran into one that it doesn’t work on so that’s surprising.

I would counter that disadvantage with this: due to testing constraints, docker containers are usually updated more quickly when there’s a 0 day, and you don’t have to patch your entire OS if one single container has one. It reduces operator overhead greatly, because that’s what it’s designed to do. Even if one of your containers has a vulnerability, because it’s a container, it won’t necessarily affect your entire system, depending on the vulnerability.

I suppose that it adds technical overhead (not sure I would call it severe though), but in my opinion the benefit of docker is how easy it is to spin up a new service, and how easy it is to update and maintain the containers.

You can host remote files via SFTP + cloudflared (or another reverse tunnel provider) without opening any ports. Then you use a file manager to add a network share with your SFTP information.

For the calendar, WebDAV is probably your best bet, which also works with reverse tunneling. You can also use WebDAV in place of SFTP if you prefer to only have one (or two with a reverse tunnel) service configured. Nextcloud is a great option since it has WebDAV and file management built in.

I would use Docker to do it all, but there is a learning curve associated with setting all of this up in a secure way (which is what the reverse tunnel helps with).

Graphene can shut it off at the hardware level, or just allow charging. It’s slick.

It should be noted that email servers, no matter the setup, require you to follow strict standards to achieve proper delivery. It’s very easy to get blacklisted, and it’s next to impossible to get off of said blacklist once you’re on it.

I used to host my own mail server with this, but it got to be too much to get my emails to actually send. I was always wondering if my email was actually delivered or if it was silently bounced or sent to spam. Email is the only thing I’m not willing to self host.