Different chemistry and voltage levels, power banks use Li-ion which is 3.7V nominal per cell, and the UPS needs a 12V nominal battery which you can’t get with Li-ion cells since 3x = 11.1v, and 4x = 14.8v.

However in some UPS models you can replace the batteries with LiFePo4 replacements, as that chemistry does match the voltage and charge profile (at least close enough). If it works or not depends on the UPS and if it complains about the slight differences.

Glad it was helpful info!

Yeah I’m familiar with that part, I just meant in context of a browser being able to connect to it.

I don’t think I’ve had any wear out yet, but I also am gentle on them.

I didn’t even realize 0.0.0.0 was a valid address to enter into a browser! TIL.

Yeah that’s true. I just have worries that the app might do something weird and require a log in and re-sync.

Yeah for large folders and stuff probably better to use SFTP or WebDAV

Localsend works great for me.

I have another 2FA app (Aegis) with the same keys added for my email and any other critical stuff.

The other option for traveling that might be better is use Keepass with the file stored on your phone, that way no internet is needed and there’s no chance of lockout from your password DB.

Seems fine to me, they need to make money somehow.

True, modern hardware can easily route 10gbps or more though so for most of us that won’t be an issue. Often OpenWRT on consumer routers struggles to route even 1gbps.

I agree on the external AP, that is needed.

Yeah start with pass through, without that no physical hardware will show up inside the VM

If thats what your needs are. But proxmox has nothing to do with the hardware being better.

It’s a handy router OS, why not?

Consumer router hardware generally under performs a lot, so running your router on better hardware solves that.

It would be fun as an experiment, but often using wifi adapters as an AP generally doesn’t work that well. Most of us are running an external AP such as Unifi hardware.

As far as getting this working, have you done the passthrough setup on the VM for the wifi adapter?

And have you confirmed that OpenWRT supports your wifi adapter?

Thunderbird on Android should support push, have you tried that?

Mailbox.org

It still protects against sites getting breached and the password leaked which is very common.

2FA has backup codes, plus you can keep TOTP on your other devices too.