I liked Day9’s take on the matter.

As a child then every year is purposefully pointed out. School education years, birthdays, clothes for your age, siblings being older/younger.

As an adult when you stop paying careful attention then time all merges into one mass. Age doesn’t really matter much and certainly isn’t pushed in your face constantly. It’s easy to keep doing repetitive things at work and home and before you know it then another 4 years go by without you keeping track. I did a job with a very extended period of postgraduate training (10 years). Then again there was a constant interest in your year of training and what stage you are at. Even other events in life are better bookmarked (that happened when I was in year 5 of my training).

If you’re more mindful of the time, then it seems to pass more slowly and is better delineated.

It works fine with 2 simultaneous direct play streams. Haven’t tested beyond that.

All that is running fine on 16gb of RAM?

My dashboard says that containers are using 50% of the ram. The server PC itself is using a bunch of ram on top of that because I ended up installing g Debian with the full KDE desktop emvironment. I ended up removing some resource hogs that I didn’t need (Element server, Linkwarden, etc).

The best way to get to grip with how this works is to start using it.

Yup works great. The NAS drive auto mounts as an NTFS drive on the server with read/write access. All works smoothly.

You don’t need much to self host and don’t let people online gatekeep or exclude you or intimidate you with complex racks. An old PC repurposed to a home server gets you started and is enough for a lot of stuff. You can always expand as needed in the future.

Here’s my setup:

Storage is on a NAS: synology 2 bay NAS with 8TB (media: photos, movies, TV shows, books, comics) and 2 TB HDD (Kopia backup snapshots). I don’t need RAID configurations. Important data is already 3-2-1 backed up and if an HDD fails then I’ll just replace it when I get to that point.

Server: Headless mini PC with Debian with a 12th gen intel, 16gb ram, 1tb NVME (mostly live data, shared folder, game saves, etc). I’m building a new machine and have yet to decide if I want to replace the server or use that as a gaming machine, but the has a Core 5 Ultra 125H processor and LPDDR5 RAM and is super power efficient and silent.

Docker containers:

• actual (budgeting)

• affine (note taking)

• bentopdf (PDF editing)

• beszel (server status monitoring)

• dockge (Docker management)

• guacamole (server remote desktop access)

• immich (photo application, backup, gallery and Al tagging)

• jellyfin (video and music server)

• jotty (quick notes and task/shopping lists)

• kavita (comic books and ebooks)

• kopia (backups)

• floccus (bookmark backup and sync across browsers)

• mattermost (used solo for sharing text, links, files, etc to myself)

• papra (document scanning and OCR)

• opodsync (gpodder podcast sync backend)

• prunemate (automated scheduled docker pruning)

• samba (file sharing on the local netwrok)

• syncthing (mostly used to keep retro/emulated games in sync across devices)

• tiny tiny rss (RSS platform)

• vpn-torrent-stack (conatining gbittorrent, prowlarr, flaresolverr, radarr, sonarr, all running through gluetun VPN on a VPN server)

• watchtower (automatic docker updates)

Synology Cloud Sync sends the Kopia backup snapshots to my Backblaze online storage and also keeps a local folder synced with my Mailbox.org cloud drive.

Synology also handles the reverse proxy access.

Flawless logic. Instant job offer.

Wholesome. This comic is worthy of love.

Charisma 1000

Also: orcs and golems need love too.

m’lady

It’s 55°C inside and constantly sounds like a jet is getting ready to take off. Also the bucket is lost so you need to be ready to piss on the server at a moment’s notice.