I've found a listing for a bunsh of these for 57€. Looking into them, I saw that there is a non mini, sff, that is waaaaay better for a homelab. Still small, but impressively expandable, 4 dimm slots, 4 pcie slots (low profile i7 ), one of them x16, internal space for 2 3.5 drives plus an ODD tray, where you can mount a 2.5 hdd or ssd, a bajillion usb...
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o7 cmdr, welcome aboard!
I am in the process of getting homelabbed up as well, I have been running piholes for years but I have gotten deeper into doing my stuff recently. My ISP is finally running fibre to my place this week and I had a game plan to get a lot of things setup so that I could do a switch over to my own firewall the day or two before the fibre was installed. I have a pi 5 with 1gb ram running openwrt, the plan was to do the switch over to it the day before the fibre was installed so I listed out all the things that would need to be changed, and on what days I would do it. My plan kept getting more compact as I am excited to do the actual switch, I have been crash testing things across my LAN but all the stuff I had planned on working on until Wednesday got comprised into this weekend so that I could do the important switch over and crash testing Monday and Tuesday and some fun stuff on Wednesday for the fibre to be installed on Thursday.
Talking about parents and setting things up for them I plan on showing my father the things I can do and try and convince him to join me use my services for the small price of off site backup.
Nice! Great thet you prepared well, It will come handy 😊
Good luck with immich, I constantly break mine somehow. Congratulations on the breaking ground on the large rabbit warren.
Welcome aboard. You're going to feel so fulfilled and accomplished when you got all your things hosted on your own. It's such a peaceful and safe feeling. I have a tiny dell optiplex that runs Debian and it's been a host for all of my services. Navidrome, audiobookshelf, jellyfin, pihole, own DNS with unbound... Etc. Even built my own android app for music/audiobooks.
Then got me a domain from cloudflare for $10 a year and now I can access my stuff anywhere I got. My son and wife are both loving it.
Welcome to the club, bro. Pleasure to meet your acquaintance. Sounds like you've done your homework. Better than how I started. I just dove in and whacked my head against a wall until something worked. First real Linux server I ever stood up online got taken down in short order. So I went back and did some learning, and took note of what others did/do. Now I'm no pro at it by far. Lots of very knowledgeable people in here. Stick around, pay it forward. good group to hang out with.
With the niceties out of the way, let's get right down to the the real issues: What are your thoughts on AI? /s
You've done your part to make the internet a little bit more distributed like it was always meant to be. Good work!
Sounds great. How does Zima compare to Synology?
ZimaOS is the native OS for the Zimaboard. It's evolved from casaos and gives beginners a friendly start with an app store like experience for containers.
Congratulations! It's such a rewarding experience to set up your system.
Congrats!