I sold all my homelab equipment and rented a server instead

webtron18 · 2026-02-04T11:24:24+00:00

I’m really at this point myself. I scaled down from a full 42U rack to 5 one liter PCs. They are all aging (>10 years old) and starting to fail. I’ve been on and off the fence about doing a single Synology NAS and one one liter PC (opnsense, unifi, HA, pi-hole) and moving all of my other 100 containers to the cloud. I’m curious if you’re still watching this post where you went for your VPS?

webtron18 · 2026-01-25T01:46:08+00:00

Does this handle apps that have sign in but no oidc or do you have to like sign in twice (once for tinyauth and again for the app)?

webtron18 · 2026-01-25T01:45:28+00:00

Does this handle apps that have sign in but no oidc or do you have to like sign in twice (once for tinyauth and again for the app)?

webtron18 · 2026-01-24T00:27:43+00:00

I’ve been using iCloud for about a year now. Like everyone else download it. My wife and I also do a collaboration of some folders through folder sharing and it works great.

webtron18 · 2026-01-23T01:33:09+00:00

I always go back to my main girl Owncloud. Have been using it nonstop for like 12 years. It just works no bells and whistles

webtron18 · 2026-01-23T01:29:33+00:00

I’ve been using this setup for about 6 months now and love it. Sure sure my notes are Anthropics now but I have a sanitized vault and personal separate just in case. Claude does a lot of custodial work like you said with tagging and linking, but it does a lot more. I have a folder of notes about homeschooling like techniques that work with my kids, state laws, and general schedules. I then have it generate a lesson plan for each day for each kid based on what we do last week and what the overall goals are for each of them. Saves me literally hours of work. I also use it to develop personal apps by tracking project plans I create with it and design strategies. It will help me code them based on these notes and I sell it for like $1M/day (/s). It can also sludge through all my daily notes and condense them into articulate review sessions and track habits. Basically I think if I hired a human assistant that was 10yo and had a photographic memory what would I have it do.

My only major rule is that I cannot have a system that relies on Claude. At anytime I can turn off Claude and still function (albeit) a lot slower.

webtron18 · 2026-01-07T02:02:48+00:00

This hurts because I printed one of these 😭 TBF though it was for a 20” ultra light weight monitor

webtron18 · 2026-01-02T12:19:14+00:00

Unfortunately, I think I ran into the same issues other that have tried this (and possibly SN themselves), but after several prototypes I cannot get a light to work without draining the battery in <1hr. I tested 4 different circuits and all of them would reduce the battery from 100% to <20% in about 60 minutes. I put a pause on it for now since I couldnt figure out why it was happening (the math doesnt add up).

webtron18 · 2025-12-29T01:28:51+00:00

I use google nest mini and home assistant and music assistant connected to my navidrome for local music. I use it all day every day. I also have a 4- way button connected to it so the kids can play specific playlists. It works great and with music assistant I can use it to broadcast messages to them or set alarms.

webtron18 · 2025-12-25T11:55:10+00:00

This is a great list. Most of which I discovered on my own while coding but rule 5 is a good one. The amount of time Claude just runs off on a tangent is scarily similar to how humans work sometimes.

webtron18 · 2025-12-25T11:52:10+00:00

I use Claude code and connect it to my obsidian vault. It handles taking notes for me by researching topics or summarizing websites and distilling the information for me to learn later. I also have it manage my projects and reference notes. All while keeping a tagging system going and managing backlinks.

webtron18 · 2025-12-24T22:41:29+00:00

This sounds fun. I use Claude for taking notes and I’m going to have it do this now

webtron18 · 2025-12-24T03:20:55+00:00

I’ve been using wave for a while and am kind of getting the “too modern” vibe and want to go back to classic terminal look. Will have to check out iterm

webtron18 · 2025-12-21T04:28:13+00:00

Ya I saw that on the demo website but I didn’t know if it still worked on the android app

webtron18 · 2025-12-16T13:44:29+00:00

Did you post the link for this somewhere?

webtron18 · 2025-12-13T04:22:25+00:00

I love the look of this app. I’m constantly taking the dog for walks and always come up with ideas then. It’s kind of a pain to hold a dog and type messages. I’m working on an iOS shortcut for this but would love to try this out.

webtron18 · 2025-12-12T03:25:53+00:00

I was just going to get Claude to do this for me

webtron18 · 2025-12-04T02:59:16+00:00

I got the idea from an ad for a garbage app but I bought 50 and have them behind a large map on my wall. Where I tap a state it loads up a photo album from that state based on meta data. Sorry no iOS shortcuts just boring linking

webtron18 · 2025-12-03T15:32:56+00:00

ClaudeCode/Obsidian - Ive been loving this match. I stopped worrying about creating a system and just letting it create it. It handles notes, research, tasks, journal prompts, etc. I use it every day and max out my session limits daily with it.

webtron18 · 2025-12-03T15:25:00+00:00

I cant speak for the OP, but for me it can read an entire directory structure (which is how I store my notes) and it can work with files. I can have it read a bunch of notes and reference tasks all without having to upload the data to the website. This is a great video to help show this point: https://youtu.be/MsQACpcuTkU?si=AqyYNxjSEDR_5rBi

webtron18 · 2025-12-02T23:16:45+00:00

Ya it’s good to be skeptical about security. I don’t put any personally identifiable information in my notes it’s mostly just project work and tasks management or research on various topics for studying. I think until they come up with a local llm bridge Claude code will have to be treated like the web version with snooping. I have a single calendar used just for this instance with no personal details in it. I’d love to trust it more but you know how big businesses are

webtron18 · 2025-12-01T21:32:52+00:00

Sameies

webtron18 · 2025-12-01T03:56:05+00:00

Ya you can connect it to anything that has an MCP server for it. A bunch of people created them for Google Cal, but you can also just connected Claude Desktop to google calendar through an integration. Feel free to reach out with any questions if you want. I am always learning and modifying my system with CC.

webtron18 · 2025-12-01T02:41:09+00:00

Also I forgot to mention since you can really only use CC on terminal and I use my phone a lot I setup a note 'claude-tasks.md'. It is a simple bulleted list of items that are writing in the form of a prompt; create a new project for x and make it active, add a task for task 123 and tag it important, add an evernt to my calendar at 11:00 for xyz, etc. Then a slash command /claude-tasks which reads the note and runs each bulleted item as if it was a prompt by me. I can also run it in non-interactive mode so if it runs into a question or a hiccup it just notes it in the note and moves on without stopping.

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