Universal media server works for me. I run it headless on a small instance. Streams my movies and music just fine.

Oh nonono. Real men rest in rest. Then push to stage for QA testing, then flip blue green to go to prod.

Anything else is insane.

How many non tech people would use this, especially if not in play store. 95% of people don’t know fdroid exists

+1 for CMK. It’s built on nagios. Been using it for decades. That shit is rock solid and has never let me down.

Prometheus is metrics and grafana reports it. IMHO, better reporting and graphing, better eye candy. But also harder to setup and get right.

CMK agent works on 95% of what you want with just the agent.

I use it on reclaimed hardware … Works great for me. Has all the features you’d want for a home lab, and I run a few production hosts there as well

I have a rack in my garage.

My advice, keep it simple, keep it virtual.

I dumpster dove for hardware and run proxmox on hosts. Not even clustered, just simple stand alone proxmox hosts. Connect to my Synology storage device and done.

I run next cloud for webDav contacts and calendar (fuck Google), it does photo and do. Storage. The next client is free from F-Droid for Android and works on debian desktops like a charm.

I run Minecraft server

I run home automation server

I run a media server.

Proxmox backs everything up on schedule

All I need to do is get off-site backup setup for Synology important data and I’m all set.

It’s really not as hard as you think if you keep it simple

We had that, but people knew what the delivery driver looked like or maybe reception had a secret list of buddies to notify …whatever. When breakfast was delivered, within 10 seconds, all the vultures in the office pounced in it, leaving nothing.

Anytime pizza was given on Fridays, same vultures would rush to be 1st in line then walk out with a plate stacked with a whole pizza… Rest of us usually got nothing.

I bought a sager laptop, matching the models that system76 uses. Loaded pop os and away I go.

So far, very stable. I am forced to use Nvidia performance mode if I want an external monitor which is slightly annoying, but I can reboot into normal mode when on battery.

Its the poor battery usage that irks me. The battery life gets me 90 min of use, so not great.

I got steam for some gaming, guitarix and ardour for music, libre office, IDE and git tools all good to go.

Worth it

Yes you can.

Surprisingly accurate

Dont trust or use Google drive. Google wouldn’t offer that space for free…they get something out of it.

Would be more appropriate if it was the datetime library creator.

Starting off a noob programmer in Bash… Pure evil