I‘m a realist in that regard, once I am gone all my hard work will go to shit in 6-12 months no matter how much I train an instruct my friends and family. They just don’t care enough to put in even a little bit of work.

Chrome probably

Everyone will have their own system.

I save all my credentials in Bitwarden/Vaultwarden and take notes in Joplin.

The good thing about YOUR homelab is that YOU’RE taking notes solely for YOURSELF and only YOU know how YOU work and how YOU organize YOUR thoughts.

I am still using cloudflare tunnels for home assistant, so I am a little annoyed. On the other hand this was a much needed reminder that I need to move home assistant to pangolin/newt as well.

That’s why I burn new ones every 6 months. There’s always some nee stuff to add anyways and it’s easier to just replace the whole backup then.

I actually still burn 5-8 BluRay disks about twice a year with my most important data (Photos, memories etc.) which I store at my parents house as true immutable offsite backups. Furthermore I mirror my TrueNAS Backup Server every night at my brother’s place through a VPN connection .

One big advantage is that you don’t need to run unbound in addition to free yourself from (commercial/non-profit) upstream dns providers completely.

Afaik the budget friendliest local AI solutions currently are Mac Minis! Due to the CPU/GPU/RAM unified structure they are powerhouses for AI and astonishingly well priced for what they can put out.

Last I checked it was abandoned and no one is maintaining a fork either.

You know who lived like this?

High ranking politicians in eastern Germany (GDR - the one behind the wall).

They were scared of the public because they were surveilling and suppressing their citizens.

FYI from the newest release notes for 10.11.0

Jellyfin now actively checks the available free space for its configuration and data directories. If you have less than 2GB of free space in each data directory, Jellyfin now refuses to start to prevent data corruption. Additionally, checks are implemented to prevent certain path misconfigurations that are known to cause issues.

https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-release-10.11.0/

I actually registered my unused landline for the signal rest api account a long time ago, been using that one for all kinds of automated notifications for over a year.

I’ve set up Uptime Kuma this weekend, monitoring everything from Docker containers, network devices (like IPcams, switches, printers, …), wireguard tunnels, etc etc. (I have 65 monitors set up so far) and a Signal rest api for notifications.

Furthermore, I integrated multiple new ESPHome switches into my Home Assistant setup for cable model reset, alarm system controller reset, etc.

Once I have Uptime Kuma finetuned I will automated som resets.

Uptime Kuma is amazing so far.

Pangolin is free for non commercial self-hosting purposes and used quite intensively in the Jellyfin community.

• Headscale is essentially a self-hosted, open-source alternative to Tailscale’s control server, enabling creation of a private WireGuard-based mesh VPN network. It lets you use Tailscale clients while running your own control server, focusing on secure device-to-device connections without exposing open ports. It requires a server with a public IP for the control server but does not natively manage reverse proxy or authentication for web services.

• Pangolin is a more complete self-hosted solution built on WireGuard and Traefik, combining VPN tunneling with a modular reverse proxy and authentication management. It provides centralized management with role-based access control, 2-factor authentication, automated SSL via Let’s Encrypt, and can expose multiple private networks or services through secure tunnels without needing to open firewall ports. It includes a web UI and plugins for security features like WAF, API, and OAuth2/OIDC identity providers.

You also don’t want to be tied to Tailscale, another US company.

Take a look at Pangolin instead.

Same here, I have the 4800 Plus and immediately installed TrueNAS when I got it. Has been running flawlessly since March.

Databases on sd cards are a nightmare for sd card lifetimes. I would really recommend getting at least a USD SSD stick instead if you want to keep it compact.

Your SD card will die suddenly someday in the near future otherwise.

I have a Seagate 105 Megabyte IDE drive from 1992 that is still working perfectly fine in my 386DX-33 RetroPC.

No one location has DSL and the other 5G. Both have around 200 Mbits but thats totally fine.

It’s completely indistinguishable from my main location and nobody can see I am using VPN.