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  • Just kinda flipped through his guide. It’s a bit dated on knowledge and techniques, even for beginners.

    You don’t need a computer for a router. Get a router that ships with OpenWRT and start there. GL.iNet makes good and affordable stuff. Use that for your ad blocking, VPN, and so on to get started.

    I’d just skip OpenVPN altogether and get started with Wireguard or Headscale/Tailscale.

    If you want to run other heavier services, start out with a low-power minipc until you’re settled on what your needs or limitations are. You can get a very capable AMD minipc for $250-300, or an n100 low-power for a bit cheaper. Check out Minisforum units for this. Reliable, good price, and solid warranty.

    If you deal in heavy storage, maybe consider adding a NAS to the mix, but maybe that’s a further steps. OpenWRT is a good starting point just to get your basic network services and remote access up, then just move on from there.

    A good and fun starting point for some people is setting up Home Assistant on a minipc or Raspberry Pi (honestly, the costs of Pi boards now is insane. Might be good just to get the minipc).



  • “Game Saves” depend on the core being used, because some consoles attach pseudo devices as memory cards, while others like NES emulate the storage cart in the game cartridge. All of these use files on the emulator filesystem to store the actual saves, but use the game code to save data as the game is designed to do, and will show as saves in the game. Each core will have its own docs on how this works.

    “Save States” are a point in time dump of the game state that sort of replays data where it was saved from. Like pausing music or a video. these are also dumped to files, but loaded differently, and will not show as saves in game menus.