Yes you can, easiest is called tailscale funnel, you’ll just get a url leading to whatever you have hosted. Slightly more complicated is either installing tailscale on family devices and use it as a VPN (so your service is safely shielded from the public internet ), or you can use a reverse proxy on a cheap/free tier VPS.

Tailscale is definitely the most frictionless solution. But you will then rely on tailscale instead of cloudflare, so not ideal. You can also host Headscale so you do not have to rely on them either.

You guys have never had to handle a 300GB tiff file from microscopy and it shows.

This is how I started in a tiny room. I am not proud, but maybe good to show between all the shiny things here.

Bullshit. I can use docker without the docker hub very easily. Anyone can host docker images, and docker allows this, no weird hacks needed.

Docker does not lock you in with the docker hub though. So no hostage taking.

They will shame you, for your messy code. People suck sometimes.

No (or very limited) editing in Okular…

The micro USB standard was also an EU thing, just voluntary, and not just for Apple.

Yes, but under treath of lawmakers mandating a single standard. And the EU has now forced a single standard anyway on smartphones, tablets, etc.

Although I agree that there are quite a few examples of a “naturally emerging” single standards without lawmaker intervention, but this is not really one of them…

Yes