Yeah, that was the last iteration of the setup. I had two SD’s break before I figured out they aren’t suited for running high read/write systems. Lessons learned during homelabbing.

Huge fan of Bento PDF. We don’t have a decent PDF suite at work so most of my colleagues turn to online tools that are likely to collect your data.

I selfhosted Bento for my team and their reactions are very positive.

I’ve put my printer on the guest network.

It’s nearly 20 years old. Originally a Belgian site only available on the .be domain.

His blog got integrated in an other website for a while but then came back to www.lowtech.be after some years.

I took my SD card out of the rpi to reinstall home assistant. Terribly annoyed because I had no backup of my configuration.

When reinstalling my SD I found out it was the ethernet cable that wasn’t plugged in.

Sure

https://www.jellytv.app/en

Agreed. The hardware was essential in my journey. From a pi4b to a second hand mini pc to a small cluster with added cloud storage. I had to figure out a cheap and sturdy setup for reliant self hosting.

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.

Ntfy is a good lightweight option indeed.

Some youtubers like Networkchuck and Chris from BigBearTechWorld. Especially the last one convinced me with his structured and kind style. His Discourse forum is really helpful.

Legendary. Love what they are doing. I have issues with getting people on their platform because of the cartoonish style.

Finamp whips the lamas’ ass?

I’m running Home Assistant on mine at the moment. It’s amazing. Really. Apart from being an great smart home solution I’ve found it a good solution to create dashboards for life.

I have set up our family calendar, train schedules that change routes depending on the time. Waste collection notifications. It warns me to get a raincoat and umbrella in the morning. I get news headlines for my interests…

Before that I’ve tried a lot. It was my first step into home labbing 2 years ago. It brought me back to my youth. Breaking the family computer and trying to fix it before anyone noticing it.

Most of the stuff I ran used Docker.

• Joplin notes
• Mealie
• Immich
• Authentic
• Wanderer
• Homarr
• pihole
• portainer

Within a year I grew out of my pi setup and bought a second hand mini Lenovo that now runs Proxmox. Minor investment, huge upgrade. Moved away from dockers also.

The pi is a fun gateway drug.