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I use it as a last resort backup for things that are worth the recall price if I lose them

Docker still makes sense on your own hardware. Especially if you're the type of person to try out different programs often

I tried this but I always end up with tea leaves floating around my cup

Pretty sure it's Samsung specific

Zerotier, although it's similar to tailscale so you might have issues with it too

+1 for buzzkill in general though, it's a good app

I've done it with docker swarm and it was awful, the connection latency would break the cluster constantly

I hate backronyms

Possibly, the last time I flashed an OS was 2019 and I lost a lot of features that i had on the stock rom and had a lot of battery life and lag issues.

When I was rooting/flashing custom ROMs I was spending a lot of time tinkering or debugging issues. I could deal with forgoing bank apps, Netflix, etc but I stopped in the end after cyanogenmod had an issue that meant emergency calls would soft reboot the phone. It made me realise my phone was an appliance not a hobby, I need to be able to rely on it and not be wondering if something won't work because of the ROM I have installed or because it's rooted.

You still need a reverse proxy just doesn't need to be on a seperate server. If you want to do it without people having to install something, you may be able to use cf tunnels for the web pages but game servers definitely don't work through that and you'd have to have some sort of external forwarding. Keep in mind though that will introduce possibly an unacceptable amount of lag to the server.

As far as I'm aware you don't need a seperate VPS if you're using tailscale, or you don't need tailscale of you use a reverse proxy via a vps. You can just host it in the same place you're hosting the games and apps.