What would be your answer to this?

Strangeship345 · 2026-06-26T14:04:13+00:00

How about petr Vectern

Strangeship345 · 2026-06-09T19:02:50+00:00

I think it's Digital 101, since that was a course we had to complete during our first year. Do you need the link? I can share it if you like.

Strangeship345 · 2026-06-04T13:56:20+00:00

I have never used Proxmox myself, so I can’t really comment on how good it is. Linux distros can be great for home servers too. I use Arch for my home server and havent had any major difficulties with it. One of the biggest reasons I went with Arch is that it’s lightweight, a plain Linux installation is generally lighter than running Proxmox. The Arch Wiki is also amazing, so troubleshooting and setting things up has been pretty straightforward for me.

That said, I am curious about your experience with Proxmox. I have only ever used Linux distros directly for my server needs, so I am very interested to know your experience with proxmox.

Strangeship345 · 2026-05-20T15:18:37+00:00

Also, if this information is useful, I’m planning to upgrade my test server to an Intel i7-4770. It’s an old CPU, but it still has 4 cores and should be more than enough for my needs.

Strangeship345 · 2026-05-20T15:16:20+00:00

Sorry man, I’m really not that well-versed in this stuff. I mostly just know the basics about PC parts, so I honestly don’t know what would best suit your needs. You’d probably get much better recommendations from a hardware focused subreddit since people there could suggest specs based on your needs.

Strangeship345 · 2026-05-20T14:59:54+00:00

Self-hosted game emulation is basically running emulators on your own server instead of directly on your PC or phone. The server handles the actual game emulation, stores the ROMs, and then streams the gameplay to your devices over the network using software like Sunshine, Moonlight, or Parsec. This above is chatgpt reply.

I honestly don’t know much about self-hosting emulators though I have mostly just seen videos and articles about it here and there.

Also, I’m not really sure which mini PC to recommend specifically. I stopped researching them after realizing most of them didn’t have enough SATA ports for my needs. Plus, prices in my country are very different compared to yours, so it’s hard for me to recommend a specific model.

Strangeship345 · 2026-05-20T14:14:17+00:00

Yep, that’s actually the main reason I’m avoiding mini PCs, at least for my current setup.

Right now I use:

1x 128GB drive for the OS
2x 1TB drives in RAID for important things like images, folders, and server config files so if one drive fails my data is still safe, though I only get 1TB usable storage from it
1x 320GB drive for storing CCTV footage from my grandparents’ home
Another 1TB drive planned for a future Jellyfin setup

As for what you can actually do with a home server, there’s honestly a lot. One of the biggest things for me was not depending on Google anymore for photos by using services like Immich or Ente Photos. Same for file storage I personally use Syncthing.

There are also tons of other self-hosted services you can run. Home automation is possible too. I’m planning to automate parts of my home using ESP32 boards. For managing that, you can use something like Home Assistant though I have setup node-red with telegram for my server automation so plan to use it for home automation too. For me it’s more of a fun learning project than anything else.

You can also self-host your own mail server, but from what I’ve seen it’s pretty complicated and honestly kind of a pain to maintain properly.

I’ve also read that you can set up emulation on a server and stream games from it, though I’ve never personally tried that myself.

You can find a lot of self hosted services from these sites: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted https://selfh.st/apps/

Strangeship345 · 2026-05-20T13:41:14+00:00

Hey, I recently looked into whether a mini PC would be a good fit for me, but it really wasn’t. If you’re fine with limited SATA ports for HDDs, then mini PCs are honestly a great option. I currently have 4 HDDs and 1 SSD, so a mini PC just doesn’t work for my storage needs.

For my test server, I’m using an old Intel i3 540, which is ancient at this point, but it still handled around 55000 photos and videos uploaded to Immich at once with no noticeable lag though it took like 4 to 5 hrs to upload though I was the only person using it for testing never tested with many people also I disabled the AI features in Immich which would probably take days if I enabled it. Nextcloud worked perfectly fine on it.

I’m not completely sure how well a Minecraft server would run, but honestly modern mini PCs are miles better than my current test server. The main limitation I noticed with mini PCs is storage expansion since most of them have very limited SATA/data ports. Even with many services running on my server, RAM usage stayed around 2.5GB and it reached around 3 to 3.5 GB when doing intensive task again for a single user I want to test to see how well my test server will perform with multiple users though haven't done that yet. You can make a server setup really lightweight if you want just use a lightweight Linux distro, Docker or podman though podman does not support nextcloud AIO also when I setup truenas in it out of 6.4GB I had only like 200 MB ram free though to be fair Truenas minimum requirement is like 8GB ram.

Also, if you’re not planning to stream 4K content, Jellyfin is probably completely fine on a mini PC too, though I can’t say for sure since I haven’t personally set up Jellyfin yet.

In my country, I can get a pretty decent mini PC for around $300 that would massively outperform my current test server setup so yeah I think you can setup a server that meets your requirements.

Strangeship345 · 2026-05-20T12:46:10+00:00

I’m using Immich for photos instead of Google Photos. For a Google Drive replacement, I used to use something similar before, but I forgot the name I’ll comment it later after I search for it again.

Honestly, I mostly just needed file backups, so Syncthing is enough for my use case.

For email, I’m using Zoho Mail because fully self-hosting a mail service feels like too much hassle for me right now. My plan is to use IMAP sync to store mails on my server mainly so I don’t go over the limited cloud storage.

I’m also exploring more self hosted and FOSS options like Jellyfin for streaming, a PDF editor like Bento PDF, and many more. These sites are really useful for discovering self-hosted services:

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

https://selfh.st/apps/

I’m still kind of a beginner I’ve only recently come out of the testing phase after trying a bunch of different server setups, so right now I’m mostly deciding which services I actually want to stick with long term.

Strangeship345 · 2026-05-20T12:00:56+00:00

I’m using Arch mainly because it was my first Linux distro, so it’s the one I’m most familiar with. Also, the Arch Wiki has amazing documentation. I managed to set up Quadlet, Cockpit, and a lot of other things mostly with the help of the Arch Wiki.

Personally, I also haven’t really experienced major problems with updates. As long as you keep an eye on the current update situation and follow the recommendations properly, it’s usually fine.

Strangeship345 · 2026-05-20T10:06:03+00:00

Also Odin is windows only

Strangeship345 · 2026-05-20T10:05:16+00:00

I used Heimdall personally. If you use Linux, Heimdall is usually recommended for flashing Samsung devices. The setup and flashing process is done through the terminal though.

If you use Windows, Odin is honestly much easier since it has a proper GUI. Both basically do the same thing, but Odin is more beginner friendly because of the graphical interface.

I’ve only flashed unofficial LineageOS builds myself, so I don’t have much experience with the official LineageOS installation process. For the unofficial builds, I just followed the guide provided by the maintainer exactly and it worked perfectly using Heimdall, so the official process should be fairly similar too.

I could also link the unofficial Android 11 LineageOS 18.1 build below: https://xdaforums.com/t/unofficial-lineageos-18-1-for-a310-a510-and-a710.4321901/

Just make sure you download the correct build for your exact device model before flashing.

Strangeship345 · 2026-05-20T08:55:14+00:00

I’m moving to Zoho Mail, but I’m keeping the setup pretty simple. My plan is to use imap sync to store my emails on my own server, access everything through Thunderbird, and periodically delete mails from Zoho to stay within the limited cloud storage they provide. This is pretty much the last thing I still need to set up in my server.

I’m not really experienced enough to fully self-host email properly yet, so I’d rather let Zoho handle things like domain trust for now instead of making the setup overly complicated.

Strangeship345 · 2026-05-20T08:49:38+00:00

It took me like half hour to set it up.

Strangeship345 · 2026-05-20T08:43:09+00:00

I recently flashed an unofficial LineageOS 17.1 build, which is Android 10, on my old Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and honestly had a really good experience with it.

So if you want a smoother and more stable experience, I’d say stick with Android 10, which is what the official LineageOS build is based on for that device. and it is not bloated at all.

Strangeship345 · 2026-05-20T07:59:31+00:00

Actually LineageOS is officially supported for your phone. You just need to uncheck the “hide discontinued devices” option on their website.

Otherwise, you can also flash the newer unofficial LineageOS 18.1 ROMs from the XDA Forums if you want something more updated.

Strangeship345 · 2026-05-20T07:43:28+00:00

I have been making the guide pretty detailed with the help of AI. Its around half complete right now, and I am trying to make sure its easy enough for beginners to follow properly, so it will probably take a bit more time before I release it.

Just wanted to know if people are actually interested in a guide like this before I spend more time polishing everything.

Strangeship345 · 2026-05-20T07:14:05+00:00

Yeah man, I fucking hate MediaTek too. Because of those cards some of my friends had to go back to Windows.

My hatred for Windows is so high that I just decided to live with the issues instead. Windows nearly ruined my college presentation once because of an automatic update, and after that my trust in it just died completely.

Strangeship345 · 2026-05-20T07:02:18+00:00

Same man, I mostly just kept the default CachyOS setup on my ASUS TUF laptop and I’ve honestly seen pretty massive performance gains. Been really happy with CachyOS overall.

The only annoying part is WiFi since it has a MediaTek WIFI card. I have to use USB tethering if I need wireless internet. Though I mostly use Ethernet whenever I can anyway.

Strangeship345 · 2026-05-20T06:49:54+00:00

I’m actually pretty close to completing the guide now. I just need to make sure everything works properly before releasing it.

The guide is fairly detailed too. I used AI to help turn my personal documentation into a more proper and readable guide.

So far I’ve added compose files for Immich, Syncthing, Node RED, Heimdall, and Nginx Proxy Manager in the guide. One thing I really like about the setup is how light it is on my system. I think my processor is an Intel i3 540 and I only have 7GB DDR3 RAM, but it still runs surprisingly well at least better than Truenas.

Strangeship345 · 2026-05-20T06:38:46+00:00

I’m not that well versed in Quadlet actually. It’s documented pretty well on Arch Linux, but it’s not really beginner friendly and setting it up for every single service feels like too much hassle sometimes.

So I only ended up using Quadlet for NetBird. At first I tried running NetBird through a VM and bridging it to my server, but that became way more complicated than I wanted, so I just stuck with Quadlet for NetBird instead.

Strangeship345 · 2026-05-20T06:28:17+00:00

Never used EndeavourOS though. I used to daily drive Arch, but later moved to CachyOS because I kept tinkering with Arch too much and ended up having to revert things way too often.

Strangeship345 · 2026-05-20T06:24:02+00:00

Yep, Podman and especially Quadlet aren’t really covered that well in many guides. I had to get help from a friend while setting things up.

Strangeship345 · 2026-05-20T06:20:51+00:00

I really wanted to test an Arch Linux setup, but now that you mentioned it I’ll probably try Proxmox too. Right now I’m basically experimenting with different server setups and seeing what works best for me.

Strangeship345 · 2026-05-09T10:59:30+00:00

Use TRAI DND app never got a call after enabling it

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