Please. There’s no need to continue repeating yourself. I read it the first time. You should give it a try.

How will they detect “VPN traffic”?

Oh my God, are you still here? Not anymore, goodbye.

Ok? So what was the point of your first comment?

I really don’t know how to be more clear about this without just repeating things I’ve already said.

you weren’t aware a car can be delivered straight to your house

I wasn’t “unaware” that it was possible, I’ve just never even heard of that happening. Every car I’ve ever bought and every car I’ve seen someone else buy had to be picked up from somewhere.

You can absolutely get a new car delivered to your house

I’ve never heard of this.

the topic of discussion in this thread is having the car drive itself to your house, not to the dealership for you to pick it up.

Yes, that was my point. 🤷‍♂️

They get delivered to the dealership, not your house?

Okay so the car driving itself to you is ridiculous. Having someone drop you off to pick up the vehicle is ridiculous. How does the car get to your house without being ridiculous, exactly?

Many admins say it is a lot of work and they put a lot of effort, money and energy in it. Some even close their instance after few years, because it is just too much.

I would say you should limit the number of active accounts. Probably to a few hundred at most in the beginning. Close registration when things start to become too much. Re-evaluate periodically and re-open as necessary/desired. There’s no reason you have to allow thousands of people on your instance.

I don’t even understand what you’re trying to say. Are you under the impression that Tesla operates a concierge service that picks you up from your home?

I see where the confusion from. The OP says “from the factory floor”, but that was never said.

In a new post on X by the official Tesla account, it posted “One day it’ll drive itself right to your house” to which CEO Elon Musk replied with a simple “this year”.

your new car racks up miles on your own dime before you even get to drive it.

What? LOL You would prefer to coordinate to have someone drive you over and then drive it back home for the pleasure of…watching the miles roll over in traffic?

Fair enough, mate. Good luck.

especially w/ fast NVMe drives as swap

These won’t be fast, as detailed in the OP:

Since Intel’s Alder Lake-N processors only have 9 PCIe lanes which have to be shared between the SSDs and other hardware, the M.2 slots include five PCIe 3.0 single-lane connections, and one PCIe 3.0 x2 connection

I mean, that’s fine if that works for you, but consider more than just your current situation. If you ever wanted to upgrade it or it ever failed sometime in the future, you’d be boned. Personally I have had RAM fail and it cost me about $8 and 10 minutes to repair, rather than several hundred dollars replacing the entire machine.

Again, not necessarily. I have something very similar I use as a server.

I don’t doubt it’s not great to live next to them.

you only think it’s quiet because you’re the house making all the noise.

That’s awful presumptious of you. Why would I think it was quiet if the noise was coming from inside the house? How does that make any sense to you?

I only use it when I travel in large groups. At which point it’s really really nice. It’s private. It’s quiet. It’s cheap (per person). It’s more social. We usually also save money on food by buying in bulk and cooking.

Yes, for purposes of noise, size, speed and power efficiency

Depends on your usecase. This could very well be more than just a NAS.