I like FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Alpine, and Devuan.

I thing going layer-by-layer is the best strat here.

That looks like 179⁹ or 35263

It’s stereotypical humor and not meant to be taken literally or held against women

Weird. My last setup had a NAT with a few VMs hosting a few different services. For example, Jellyfin, a web server, and novnc/vm. That turned out perfectly fine and it was exposed to the web. You must have had a vulnerable version of whatever web host you were using, or maybe if you had SSH open without rate limits.

I might or might not finish up later.