great answer, thanks for sharing the knowledge and taking the time to comment

mostly it is the hardware I have on hand; first project in mind is ROCm machine learning for immich. after that it’s pretty much trying to understand the technology, I’m sure I’ll come up with something fun.

cultivate the niche hobby subs, thats really all that reddit still has going for it because it reached critical mass.

thanks for taking the time to comment here, think I’ve gotten it mostly straightened out now!

one last thing I’m curious about, Id like to continue using a VPN for privacy concerns, would directing all my traffic through a vpn be the only way to benefit from VPN service while also benefiting from DoT and DNS self hosting.