While I’m morally in the opnsense camp I know pfsense has more third party packages available.
Running docker in an lxc sounds interesting, I’m a bit old school and enjoy the isolation that a true vm gives you.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

These would be the big three alternatives:
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/VBA_interoperability_in_OpenOffice
https://help.collaboraoffice.com/6.4/en-US/text/sbasic/shared/vbasupport.html
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/lo/text/sbasic/shared/vbasupport.html

You wouldn’t want that and I wouldn’t want that. Trust me. :D

Of course it does. The guided meditative walk is essential as every step helps you leave the toxicity of digital life behind and prepares you to open yourself up to the present.

With all the rage about digital detox trips you could probably get people to grow food for you while paying you for the opportunity, if the marketing is done right.

Router: opnsense/pfsense
Switch: I guess look at something like Open vSwitch After some more reading I would go for a proprietary managed switch here. WiFi/Mesh network: OpenWrt with 802.11r setup - https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/roaming
Server: Proxmox or Debian Bookworm with KVM/Qemu
Docker/Kubernetes: Portainer CE version as a VM in Proxmox - https://github.com/portainer/portainer
Collab software: https://github.com/nextcloud/server
Server Backup: Proxmox backup server or Borg backup/Restic
Client backup: Borg backup/Restic

Most of my data are on 2x16TB HDDs running an mdraid1 and then I backup it all to a usb drive with Borg Backup.
The os.qcow2 files live on my m.2 NVMe and are manually backuped to the mdraid1 before running the borg backup.
I should automate the borg backup but currently I just do it manually a few times a month.
Would also like to have two usb drives and keep one offline in another part of the house but that’s another future project.

Interesting, gonna check out the selfhosted bookwyrm later.
I’m not much interested in sharing book reviews and the like so I will probably stick to https://calibre-ebook.com/ though.

https://docs.joinbookwyrm.com/

For those of us using Firefox there was a post on !youshouldknow@lemmy.world on how you can use uBlock Origin to create word filters.

To do so, open up the uBlock Origin dashboard, go to the ‘My filters’ tab, and add this filter:

lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/word1|word2|word3|word4/i)

For example:

lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/Trump|Elon|Musk|nazi/i)  

Running games on Linux:
Using the Heroic Game Launcher you can install GOG/Epic Games games with a simple click, Steam works pretty much the same in Linux as in Windows today.
There’s also Lutris that’s great for running local windows installers (downloaded game installers from GOG f.e.). I used Lutris when my wife needed to install the EA App to run Sims 4 as a usage example.

PLEASE NOTE
The exception is some games actively blocking non-windows (Fortnite) and others using Anti cheats that requires Windows to work.

Gaming on Linux links
Where I usually check if a game runs properly on Linux - https://www.protondb.com/
A site that lists games that doesn’t work due to anticheat - https://areweanticheatyet.com/
Game launchers for other storefronts than Steam:
https://lutris.net/
https://heroicgameslauncher.com/

Linux DE and Distros
If you want a desktop environment that is similar to Windows as default and uses the latest graphics protocols in Wayland and so on then look into KDE. As a bonus KDE is developed by a non profit based in Germany.
OpenSUSE is a distro developed by a german company that uses KDE as default - https://get.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/?type=desktop
Normally I recommend Fedora KDE as a distro but that is developed by Red Hat which in turn is owned by IBM which feels a bit contrary to “Buy European”.