ELI5 please. What are the benefits over unbound?

I’m using a pretty good VPN and I still get ads.

amazonads has already been blocked but I just blocked amazon and waiting to see if that does the trick.

I haven’t.

Yep. Also as extra protection from any phoning home to Topaz. It’s not possible run the software firewalled, since it needs to download the AI models once you try to run anything.

I tried a couple but had no luck running them in VMs so I gave up.

You suggested just adding the ISOs to local-lvm. Do you think it would be feasible to simply delete the local storage completely and then extend the local-lvm after, storing the ISOs there? I know extending volumes is much simpler than shrinking. And I imagine deleting completely is also easier than shrinking?

It’s really that much of a hassle to fiddle with the volume sizes?

Due to my understanding of it, I was hesitant to use AC recovery in the case that the power goes down more than once in a short period. It could drain the UPS to the point that it might not be able to sustain enough runtime for a proper shutdown. But I’m also a bit confused about the setup here. If the server is sent a signal to shutdown due to a grid outage, who is telling it the grid was restored? The server would always detect power because of the battery backup, so I don’t think AC Power Recovery would work in this case, no? I believe I have the UPS comm server (probably apcupsd) installed on the server itself, so there’s no way for it to know to wake up unless from an outside source.

Maybe you have some further incite into how to make that setup work properly.

I’m brainstorming here, but would it be possible/feasible to have the Unifi Dream Machine execute a script everytime it turns on telling the server idrac to power up. I’d have to see if the UDM has that ability as well. The UDM turning on would only really happen if power was restored from an outage. Otherwise I could send a command manually once I have access to the network.

I was under the impression you need a license to use remote access via idrac. Do you know if it also requires a second run of ethernet cable separate from the server NIC?