Really the “requirement” is electricity, passed that you’ll need to define “do it all”. I had a desktop with 4 hard drives and 6GB of RAM. Ran containers with Proxmox and it handled most of what I needed (file sharing, Plex, pihole). Then I wanted more, and found an old laptop that has a bad battery and 8GB of RAM1. Installed Proxmox and used containers and ran HomeAssistant and Searx and moved Pihole and Plex to that and turned the Desktop into dedicated storage. Then I wanted more, spent $300 USD on a little mini PC with 32GB of RAM. Now I am running several services (really just for myself) as a mixture of VMs and containers. I still want more, I am hoping to upgrade the RAM in the desktop, and run a backup server directly on my storage.

tldr; you can start with just about anything, but you may always want a bit more

From the look of it, your phone is not on the same network. If you do want to use it that way, you may want to look at something like tailscale (mesh VPN). Otherwise, you would have to open it up to the internet which should be considered a security no no in most cases. If you are on the same network, you may need to check firewall rules both network and I don’t know if iPhone has anything on device.

2 different things. Caddy is a reverse proxy, so exposing your server to the world. Tailscale is a mesh VPN, so private access behind your firewall. I use caddy to expose something like searxng so I can use it easily no matter what device I’m on. I use Tailscale to administer my network/virtualization.

An elevated platform that is raised on one side (forming a “back”) designed with the intent of sitting… No “back” = stool

I just encrypt devices that leave the house. I do have access to a hard drive crusher if I lose a drive (recently crushed a tablet that wouldn’t power on)

Podlet looks amazing. Here I have been writing Quadlet files like a noob

Firefox user?

We use it at school. It’s great because no one has to sign in, and does most of what’s needed

I hold on to them for awhile, then duck another jeep that I like. Some people have rows of them. Personally, I think that’s getting into cat lady territory

I work in a state government and we can’t “donate”, but I have happily paid thousands for maintenance/support or hosted options. I appreciate when projects offer other ways to contribute.

I haven’t gotten to it, but I’d like to try and set it up as an android TV replacement. Just have distro of choice load on boot with Bluetooth remote/controller for input

Thank you!

What griddle is that? I’ve been looking for something like that, but wanting to use it on my gas grill

Thank you installed

Gotcha, I think that’s where I was getting confused

Thank you, I couldn’t find it before

I didn’t think they took donations?

Pretty fun so far, a little confusing to get started

Yikes, I haven’t used MQTT what so ever yet. Willing to learn but I was really hoping to just connect it to WiFi and straight into home assistant without messing with a broker. I just hate that Chamberlain pulled what they did.