Isn’t there a free version of visual studio? The community edition. Or was it ditched away by Microsoft? I used it for my personal projects in the past and never felt the need of paid tools I have at work.

What do you mean with “paying to use” .NET/C#? You can use them for free. Or am I missing something?

I come from VyOS and really liked it, but still prefer opnsense for the GUI, constant updates and plugins. VyOS started losing appeal once they opted for subscription stable iso access (even if they did give me a free subscription for some comment contribution in their repo). Also, I have to admit, that VyOS needs a fraction of the resources needed by opnsense.

Since last update, 2.13 I think, it does not work well with gog games, at least was not able to install flatout and pillars of eternity, both from my gog library. Nonetheless I was able to install pillars from the epic store, using heroic. With flatout I spent a week trying to debug installation problem, clear cache, reinstall of heroic, and everything else and then simply used lutris which installed flatout at first try and let me play right away (steam deck)

I tried virtualizing Windows on proxmox and it went smooth

I would try this route first.

Here is my logic: it’s the effort to find what you are looking for in a bunch of files and I don’t know how many lines of source code versus the effort to search for some packets (which you should listen for anyway in the final solution) sent from a specific IP address over a relatively small amount of time.

I played it first when it was a free mod and then bought on steam and put on my backlog list because I really enjoyed what I saw back then.

Now, wouldn’t be amazing if someone develop, you know, HL3 or at least episode 3? The game script wasn’t published some time ago because of copyright expiration? I would pay for it, and I am sure I am not the only one.

I know Microsoft didn’t get this right with naming and you got caught in the trap but there are 2 (actually 3) ways of hosting Blazor.

I also see that this confusion won’t help OP choose Blazor over some more coherent dev environment hehehehe

You are talking about Blazor webassembly, I am talking about Blazor server side, which loads as fast as a “normal” website.

Server side Blazor has other caveats, that’s why I specified it is an intranet project, where server side Blazor fits very well. Anyway, at the moment, Microsoft is still putting effort in polishing both type of Blazor hosting model.

This is not our first Blazor intranet web app and some of them are running in production for one year more or less.

It is really a joy to program using Blazor, especially if you need cross tab/browsers/device/user real time communication, which comes almost free thanks to underlying SignalR channel.

My two cents: I strongly agree with this. We just deployed an intranet blazor server app running on Linux (don’t know which distro) and apache (we might switch to nginx soon). It works very well and we had to write less than 100 lines of JS (mostly for file download and upload) One of my workmates was hired one year ago and at the time he didn’t know anything about .Net stack. Now he is mostly autonomous and he loves .Net and blazor in particular. Obviously YMMV.

I am not saying your server is not secure, but just fencing off IMAP from the web is not enough to limit spammers from relaying mail through your server. They usually exploit a misconfigured SMTP server, which does run on port 25 (plain or start TLS mode)

Hope devs eat speed module lvl 3 for breakfast

You can also evaluate to buy something like this for 3.5 or 2.5inch disks.

Your point still stands, but the Great Wall visibilty is overrated. Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-chinas-great-wall-visible-from-space/

Do you have any guidance on how to do on windows 11?

Windows 11 as my everyday os

But everything around me is Linux (proxmox running Debian LXC) or BSD (opnsense, truenas)