Yeah I feel like that is where I’m at; taking the time to learn everything and then dive into doing this. Why not the start9 for you? Also, are you accessing the node remotely?
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Just the first time I got something running consistently other than an SSD on an old laptop with Bitcoin core and constant resyncing when I needed to use Sparrow. Finally managed to get umbrel working after having reflash a couple times.
I occasionally access through Tor but Zeus has been sufficient. And I still use the laptop with Sparrow connected to my electrum server. Like I said I'm not very good at all this. Sort of just my play thing right now.
Now that I've got one going I'd like to get a Start 9 OS running someday.