Up until recently, Debian on everything. Main PC/ laptop are running Artix (Arch minus systemd) and my servers are still on Debian

Really wanted to try the Debian version of mint, but unfortunately it’s systemd based

Lol, thanks. I think it’s still worth it if you want more ownership over your searches, but just expect some rough edges

Recently I’ll often get results that aren’t at all related to what I searched for. I also get a lot of timeouts from the upstream search engines, and sometimes I get results that are in Chinese for some reason

Self hosting and the maintenance is painless, but the results have been pretty terrible lately

Sell to pay my electricity bill

These are all great suggestions, but you will still show up on data brokers sites.

SFF Optiplec are great. I went with a decently spec’d Intel NUC running Proxmox that handles all my home services nicely without using too much power.

Fully custom? Sick! Where do I get one? 😅

Rsync or SCP?

That would be my exit sign

Reminds me of project Silica. Media historically was more durable (stone/ ink and cloth paper, etc) but had a low data density. As density increased, so did fragility

So sad, I remember seeing his YT vid announcing his health updates and mentioning he was getting things in order to make his network more manageable for his family :(

He seemed like a great dude.

Is keeping everything inside of a local “walled garden”, then exposing the minimum amount of services needed to a WireGuard VPN not sufficient?

There would be be no attack surface from WAN other than the port opened to WireGuard

StandardNotes for me

I try to balance things between what I find enjoyable/ worth the effort, and what ends up becoming more of a recurring headache

I have a somewhat dated (but decently specd) NUC running Proxmox, and it’s the backbone of my home lab. No issues to date.

I was using a WD PR4100, but I upgraded to a Synology RS1221+ and it’s been fantastic :)

I have a beefed up Intel NUC running Proxmox (and my self hosted services within those VMs) and a stand alone NAS that I mount on the necessary VMs via fstab.

I really like this approach, as it decouples my storage and compute servers.

4 currently with 8GB RAM and no pass through for transcoding (only direct play)