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That's basically what I'm doing right now but the web version sucks in my opinion. Embedded content takes forever to load since and it's not cached across sessions which makes quickly switching between multiple pages annoying

What do you use on android? The main thing I want linux compatibility for is for reading my notes on my computer, not for actually creating them. I thought about just annotating PDFs directly but I'm not sure how good that will work

On the topic of note taking programms.

Is there anything like onenote that is linux compatible, especially for handwritten notes? The closest in regards to decent handwriting support I could find was xournal++ but that felt kind of limiting to me especially without the infinite canvas and the ability to switch notes within the program (think onenote sidebar)

Running a webserver is not the same as hosting a service. For the software examples requested by OP, an ESP32 is useless

Wow. I was not expecting such a comprehensive answer. This mostly matches up to my experience with plexamp where the UI gets really sluggish while symfonium handles things just fine.

How does Jellyfin handle large playlists? I originally used plexamp but that was getting laggy when I had a playlist with about 800 songs open

I use symfonium which is connected to my navidrome music server

Can definitely confirm this. I started with a Proxmox system which had a TrueNAS VM. TrueNAS just used a USB HDD for storage though. Setting everything up and getting the permissions set correctly so I could connect my computers was a pain in the ass though.

Later I bought a synology and it just works. Only thing I would recommend is getting good HDDs. I bought Toshiba MG08 16TB drives and while they work great, they are obnoxiously loud during read and write operations. They are so loud, that even though the NAS is in a separate room I have to shut it off at night.

Meanwhile the Seagate Ironwolf drive I used for TrueNAS was next to my bed for multiple months and was basically silent.

Thanks for your reply. I think I managed to solve this issue and have updated my post to reflect this. Apparently I had a setting disabled in Pi-Hole which caused my DNS requests to be forwarded upstream for some reason, even though there existed a local DNS entry.

It returned the local IPv4 address of the server and two IPv6 addresses belonging apparently belonging to a cloudflare server in california.

I think I managed to fix the issue though. I have updated my post to include my solution

I think I fixed the issue by enabling the Never forward reverse lookups for private IP ranges option in Pi-Hole. After that I flushed my dns cache again and called tracert for my domain name. I only get one hop directly to my server now. nslookup also shows only local addresses now.

Outside hosting isn't really something I want to consider. I didn't mention this in my post but this setup is for my media server which needs a lot of storage space. I don't know about the pricing for a VPS but I am pretty sure it isn't as cheap as I would want it. Also uploading my media to a VPS with my upload rate would take a lot of time whenever I want to add something new.

Using two hostnames for accessing the same service isn't really an option either unfortunately. The specific part I'm trying to set up is a navidrome server for music. The app I use to access the server is called Symfonium and can only add one address per media server. I could get around that by adding multiple media sources but that would result in all of my media appearing twice in searches.