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- Router in VM

- Main workstation in VM with GPU passthrough (saves power by not having an additional machine running)

- Nextcloud for files, calendar, contact sync

- Joplin server for notes sync

- Samba NAS for me and everyone else who lives in the house

- Occasionally one or more Minecraft servers for friends

- Jenkins CI for my open source projects

- Mail server (using the ISP's mail proxy for outgoing)

- qbittorrent for 24/7 seeding or Linux ISOs

- Storj storage nodes for some passive income using spare disk space

- Borg backup target for friends

- Home Assistant (very basic user, only use it to control some MQTT tasmota flashed relays with my phone)

- Matrix server

- InfluxDB+Grafana for collecting various metrics (server usage, temperature sensor, hooked up to serial port of smart electricity meter for power and gas usage graphs)

- WireGuard for remote access, obviously

- Many other random stuff and my own projects

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Do you use your main workstation with directly connected display or via some remote technology? My home server is in the basement and I have several low end devices around but haven’t found a way to use GUI applications remotely. Currently I use only TUI ones.

About 15 meters of one USB 2.0, one displayport and one HDMI cable. Of course a 5V power supply for USB at the client end, soldered to the cheapest USB hub I could find.

I never need more than the speed USB 2.0 provides anyway, and those USB 3.0 optical extensions are way too expensive.

Joplin server, after my own heart. It’s great lets me setup accts for friends/family. I store all my recipes as markdown and anyone on the server can get my shared notebook full of them

Thanks for the Joplin mention. I’ve been looking for a secure, gdpr compliant and preferably selfhosted note app for some time! Bingo, I guess

Joplin is old but gold in terms of open source not taking. However, I always found the experience to be a bit too clunky even after writing 100s of notes.

Obsidian is much nicer but you gotta set up your own sync or pay. Same basic premise of markdown files on your local file system. I've been enjoying it a lot and written more since switching.

Thanks, will look into it

You do not even need to run a dedicated server if for example you already have an owncloud/nextcloud setup, since all clients (desktop and mobile) can sync from a WebDAV folder (among other backends).

How is storj going ?

Have been getting $20-50/mo for sharing 15TB. Probably won't be worth it for the average developer with insane salary here, but I'm not complaining!

Nothing to sneeze at, thanks for the feedback. That project and helium are the two crypto stuff I don’t find completely idiotic. ( or that is not finance, finance crypto “works”, too. But that idiotic too )

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