what internship are you doing?
When you spur of the moment decide to turn your gaming pc into a proxmox machine and then miss gaming so you end up down a rabbit hole of iommu groups to pass your Gpu through to a steam os VM to wrestle with Linux virtual display drivers so you can use sunshine to cast your games to your laptop
It eventually worked but you can quickly end up in a niche hell hole with little to no coherent documentation.
Trash guides is a gateway drug
I converted my gaming machine into a server a while back. I like to live dangerously though, no proxmox. Baremetal. If my blog is slow, sorry y’all, I’m gaming. Deal with it.
You seem to have similar setup
Though for gaming I still use it mostly “directly”
Sunshine only when Im bored on work laptop
The VM still outputs to same display and has keyboard/mouse/etc. passedI’ve been happy with the setup for the last year and half or so
Holy shit you just described my setup to a T
Or you just spin up Games-On-Whales and have the same with almost no work!
Ive been thinking about this for a while, but I imagined it could become hell on earth, thanks for the warning! It will keep the idea away from my head for another week or so
lol at ‘accidental’ beta testers. I tell my family they’re testing my shit
Isn’t that what they’re for?
I think I have reached stage 4: No hosting, off-site backup is on an external SSD in a locker at work
Stage 5 - you live in the woods and talk to a rock
I’m definitely stage 3 but it’s still an enjoyable hobby that isn’t that time-consuming. I think stage 4 is creating your own services and spamming social media in search of users.
I just use flash drives to transfer stuff from my computer to the ipad so i can watch in bed lol, keep my music on an mp3 player
Surprisingly those dual-ended USB-A + USB-C flash drives can be pretty decent, especially for stuff like this.
it’s easier to wait like 5 minutes for files to transfer than to maintain a whole wireless streaming setup. i think of it like walking over to the video rental store lol
It’s a peaceful life.
“Wow these R730/R740 ear destroying rack servers are super cheap on ebay”
No lie, they’re awesome. I’ve got two R720s, and they really aren’t bad. I leave one off. The other runs 4-5 VMs and doesn’t spin loud at all. Lack rack, surplus drives, a refurbed UPS and it just goes.
Had an R710 in my bedroom for a few years, do not recommend
I’m worried I don’t know if I’m 2 or 3
I’m in stage 2
Me too but now I’m afraid
I’m also in stage 2 but getting closer to stage 3 😂
Same, been there for a decade.
I’m careful about what I want to host because I know I’m the asshole that needs to fix it when it breaks, and password managers that my wife uses are 100% off the self-hosted menu.
Vaultwarden requires Bitwarden to keep on allowing client access. Even if there are FOSS plugins/clients, I still need ot host it between my house and a cloud and it needs to be highly available.
I’ll keep paying for that one.
Same here for pretty much the same reasons
How about a basic ass keepass file that you put on your Nextcloud? I’ve been using that for years and I’m happy with that
Works for me, would NOT work for the wife and kids.
I’ve barely got them convinced to use a low friction password manager. Even the loss of autocomplete on phone would be enough they’d start using browser based secrets.
Fair enough! I gave up moving other people to password managers :(
Stage 2 is ideal. Normie self hosting. Once you figure out docker youre cooked in the pipeline
Nonsense! The old laptop I run proxmox, home assistant, and most of my containers on is mounted to the wall in the garage, not under the stairs.
I’m trying to figure out where to put my server, currently it’s on my desk. I want to avoid the garage because of exhaust/dirt/temperature swings. The understair closet is next to the shower, so humidity could be a concern, and also it’s a small awkward shaped space. I would prefer to set it up in the utility room, but there’s humidity and dust from the dryer and washer. Maybe I’m just being too precious though
Mine is actually in a toilet cubby in my garage, it’s the only part of the garage that’s heated and it’s mostly separate from the mess I make in the rest of the space. But I do blow it out with compressed air semi-regularly because its still less than ideal.
It was convenient though because it’s on the other side of a wall shared by my entertainment center, so it was easy to cut holes and put in keystone plates on both sides.
Airflow solves humidity. Cut a hole in the door and install a fan
Stage 4: “I’m done. This isn’t worth it and I don’t actually NEED any of it! rm -rf / it all and wander silently off into the woods. Curl up on a mound of moss and watch all the things that bumble.”
Level 4 would be using some sort of off-grid decentralized networking instead of the internet?
Level 5, building a rocket pad in my backyard to start launching cube-sats.
i uhh yeah host abt 10 containers on an i7 laptop currently. in my small office (kids bedroom) closet. I do also have a 3tb storage available but its what I had … an external wd drive. sigh. i am nbr 3 huh?
I’ve been pretty happy in #2 for years.
Stage 4: code your own social network and run it on the ThinkPad under the stairs with a DB server in a wardrobe… Fight scrapers and spammers incessantly.
What scrapers and spammers? You’re the only user there.
