I humbly disagree with others that 16 Gigz of ram is not enough. A. For the first server it is definitely enough, before you know what you really need. B. In current rampocalypse it would be crazy buying ram without knowing that you really need it (only for it to sit there unused later). Your setup is fine and only time and your inner hobbyist selfhoster will tell later what you need.

Edit: and fyi I curretly do have 48 Gigz 😂, bought it a year ago very cheap and my system uses 10. Therefore I have set a high ARC to 16 GB. I used to try local LLM but didn’t find it useful for the high power consumption. Just wanted to show you where my opinion come from. Nowadays I wouldn’t buy more than strictly necessary.

I’d recommend using eficient procesors as well, so with ryzen with grafics and efficience it’s GE at the end. I recently switched ryzen 5 5500 for ryzen 5 4600GE (because 5500 doesn’t have efficient variant) and the consumption halved (- 30Wh). And both were/are basically idle with very low loads.

I think they are talking about sso, not 2fa.

I think we will see. If it’s as good as it sounds there will soon be good apps to use it. It would be funny though how we’d “return” to basically rss. Everything runs in cycles I guess 😀

Yeah, that post was amazing honestly. I had no idea about atproto before, now I feel like this is the way and I will definitely try it.

You can use tailscale + gluetun docker containers to use your favorite commercial vpn as an exit node on the same machine. https://github.com/alexmaisa/tailscale-vpn-exitnode

Or you need to update iptables of you don’t use docker and have e. g. wireguard out as an exit node. Or if you have vpn out on your router, and tailscale on the home network, you just use it as exit node.

Do you use tailscale as an exit node? What device are you using to access the home network when you are away? What are your speeds on that device without tailscale (but still away)?

Or did you mean that the speed drop happens for the server, not for the connected device? So when you are connected through tailscale the server would be unable to e.g. download anything fast?

Dont waste 5k on an ai computer. Of you want new one, buy for 2k at most. Ai will get optimized more and more. Now we have MoE with which we can run things at home we couldn’t even dream about. The companies loose money fast, there will be massive optimization sooner or later.

Are you using any other networking sw?

How are you running tailscale at home? Docker? Or natively?

Ye that’s the one. I agree with you, and I am the first case, audiobooks are the main thing for me 😊

There is a plugin for koreader to get books from audiobookshelf, I have it, i can check what was it tomorrow.

I just use Audiobookshelf because i dont want to have two apps for books 😀

Of course, of course :)

Just a small sidenote: If you do not trust your local machine you should think about why and how to change that.

Yes, the best option is to deploy your services on it. That Nginx is well established doesn’t mean its secure. A) popular software is preferred target for hackers and B) Nothing is safe, especially now, when LLMs are getting good at finding holes in software.

1. I would recommend a VPS for publicly facing services, you simply don’t want to open your home network, one mistake is enough, old router software, one small misunderstanding or a bit of bad luck. If someone gets into your VPS, few services will be hurt, if someone gets into your home network its game over.
2. There is nice little app called immich proxy, I didn’t yet try it myslef (but I plan to), but basically if you want to just share some albums or photos, you can make the proxy accessible publicly but your Immich stays safe.

There is already so many answers so maybe you won’t even read this, but the main point I think is just start, this is not valid only for self hosting but for any project. Just start doing something, anything and the path will draw itself. Doesn’t need to be correct or perfect, it just needs to be started. Maybe you can start with the old laptop. Have you tried linux yet? Try it because that will be a basis for your self hosting. Just get the vibe, use it for a while, install shit on it. Go through tutorials. Maybe you realize it would be cool to try and host a simple website on it, just for funzies, just on the local network, you will learn so much on it and half way through you will have a dozen other ideas… I know this advice may be vague, but just go with the first thing you see and you think to yourself “this would be cool to have/do” 😊

You can create an accout using trow away gafam account. Create network, then invite yourself over email. When invited you can actually make an account using only passkey. So create second account with passkey, you can leave the invited-to network and create new one completely separately from the first one. You can delete the first account and the gafam account. Job done 😀 (and yes I did exactly this) 😀

I think the problem is not your opinion but the attitude.