I’ve been running the original Unifi Dream Machine (the can, not rack) since it released in 2019. Been pretty solid, no complaints; it replaced my trusty Asus RT-N66U w/Tomato firmware; I think the UDM has been deployed longer than the Asus at this point.

The single built-in AP on the UDM was getting a bit overwhelmed, so recently I bought a U7 Lite AP to help split the load a little better. Working great so far, but now I’m looking into adding an NVR for cameras.

I like my Unifi setup, I’m just scared of a rug pull.

Same here.

Proxmox, ironically, is also based on Debian.

One of us… One of us…

There is still the topic of power usage, data usage, time spent doing maintenance, and accounting for failing hardware and hardware upgrades.

The fuck? You know self-hosting is classed as a hobby, right?

Never, EVER get into a hobby expecting some sort of monetary return. The only real “return” of any hobby is all the aspects of enjoying said hobby.

If you’re not enjoying it, why are you even doing it?

Still gotta configure ports for the reverse proxy to access.

I don’t run a service unless it has reasonably good documentation. I’ll go through it first and make sure I understand how it’s supposed to run, what port(s) are used, and if I have an actual, practical use case for it.

You’re absolutely correct in that sometimes the documentation glosses over or completely omits important details. One such service is Radicale. The documentation for running a Docker container is severely lacking.

Short answer: Don’t.

Long answer: Your SO can use a personal laptop if they absolutely must have access to it. For slow work days, I bring a personal laptop and pair it with my personal phone hotspot to get it online. Work doesn’t see it, nor do they care so long as I don’t circumvent any IT security policies.

Seriously, my ISP (XMission - local and fucking awesome) charges $27/mo minimum for a VPS

We don’t deserve Weird Al

My minivan has a roof-mounted DVD player with inputs, so I built a mini media center out of a Pi3 and Flirc IR receiver, running OSMC. Got a Toyota boot screen and everything.

Kodi these days is essentially a real-debrid frontend (which might be what you’re looking for if you want integral torrent downloads!). The normal streaming apps for Kodi are not maintained even PlexJellyfin don’t work out of the box.

XBMC has fallen quite far from where it originally started.

I blame sketchy entities reselling Raspberry Pi/Android TV/etc boxes loaded with Kodi and all the pirating plugins to the moronic general public.

Oh, damn.

Edit: Seems the new dev and the gplay maintainer have resolved their differences and are working together.

The maintainer for the Play Store version recently started maintaining a non-Play Store version as well.

Same here. I still have a Monica instance running, but I don’t think I’ve touched it in at least a year…

Oh that will be handy.

I’ve tried rolling Monica multiple times, but I absolutely hate manually logging things, especially when the mobile implementation is ehhh at best.

Used office PCs are some of the best value home servers you’ll come across. The Lenovo ThinkCentre, HP Elitedesk, and Dell Optiplex are fantastic machines with oodles of official documentation available straight from the OEM, and many come with built-in OOB management in the form of Intel AMT.

I have variants of all three. Love them.

Fair points. My entire homelab setup of five PCs pulls a total of 90-120W at any given time.

I’m gonna go check that 6th gen now that I’m home…

Intriguing, but not within the scope of this post. I’m not asking for KVM solutions.

I’m already very familiar with the AMT portion of vPro, all three of my Proxmox nodes have it enabled and locked down. Really handy to get in there when needed. The KVM route is rather expensive as I would need one that supports at least 5 systems.

vPro’s out-of-band management is the entire reason I use it, because my little lab is tucked in a utility room all the way in the basement, where I would have to cross the treacherous lands of scattered children’s toys.