I’d recommend ZFS for most home server/NAS scenarios. Gives you everything you need, and nothing you don’t.

Stuff like Ceph is just as hungry as it is powerful. The performance sweet spot for Ceph barely begins at 5 dedicated nodes (with at least a dozen drives each, ideally). I could never recommend it for home use unless you want to run it in a lab for the sake of learning.

Source: I’ve designed/built/deployed several 1PB+ Ceph clusters over the last ~5yrs.

Lowest barrier of entry would be to run a coder model (e.g. Qwen2.5-Coder-32B) on Ollama and interface with it via OpenCode. YMMV when it comes to which specific model will meet your needs and work best with your hardware, but Ollama makes it easy to bounce around and experiment.

1. zsh, ghostty (enable the ssh shell-integration option for auto terminfo installation on the remote), lazyvim

2. Containers are your friend, especially when you’re going to be doing dev work. Keep the server lean and clean.

3. Yes:

https://neovim.io/doc/user/remote.html#_remote-editing

https://github.com/barrett-ruth/live-server.nvim

Also, +1 to the Forgejo recommendation.

I’ve tried them all. CachyOS is the best by a mile, IMHO. Been daily driving on my RTX 4080 rig (and my Lenovo laptop) for almost 2yrs. Haven’t found a game I can’t run.

Pretty sure you could run Pulp in pull-through mode and add your local Forgejo/whatever registry as a remote, which would at least give you a unified “pull” URL. Then just use Forgejo actions to handle the actual build/publish for your local images whenever you push to main (or tag a release, or whatever).

Pulp might actually be able to handle both on its own, I haven’t ever tried though.

I hope people are liking the new SSH integration options :)

I’d recommend setting your sights on the 3-2-1 rule. 3 copies of your data, 2 different mediums, 1 off-site. Hetzner Storage Box is a good cheap offsite option.

Yeah serverpartdeals is legit. Between work and home, I think I’ve tested & deployed 150+ drives from them over the last 3yrs. No duds, no failures, no complaints. Great customer service on the corp side for big orders, too. 10/10 would recommend.

Move over, bud. That’s my hill to die on, too.

Can’t catch me, FBI-man. I’m behind 7 proxies.

Fun fact, some of the more impressive examples from that era (like Mary Poppins) primarily used the sodium vapor process to get perfect mattes directly in-camera, no rotoscoping needed. It’s a fascinating and impressive bit of tech: https://www.historicmysteries.com/science/disney-prism/39484/

127.13.37.69:420

CachyOS is great, much better than Bazzite or Nobara IMO. Been daily driving it on my gaming rig with an NVIDIA GPU for ~9mo. Great performamce, no complaints.

Oooh, ouch looks really neat! May actually cause me to retire my extract function. It suddenly feels a little incomplete by comparison, lol.

# Extract any archive
extract() {
        if [ -f "$1" ]; then
                case $1 in
                *.tar.bz2) tar xjf "$1" ;;
                *.tar.gz) tar xzf "$1" ;;
                *.bz2) bunzip2 "$1" ;;
                *.rar) unrar x "$1" ;;
                *.gz) gunzip "$1" ;;
                *.tar) tar xf "$1" ;;
                *.tbz2) tar xjf "$1" ;;
                *.tgz) tar xzf "$1" ;;
                *.zip) unzip "$1" ;;
                *.Z) uncompress "$1" ;;
                *.7z) 7z x "$1" ;;
                *) echo "'$1' cannot be extracted via extract()" ;;
                esac
        else
                echo "'$1' is not a valid file"
        fi
}

I’d recommend using OpenTofu (Terraform) for initial provisioning of VMs and then use Ansible for post-provisioning config & management. That way you’re letting both tools play to their strengths.

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/bpg/proxmox/latest/docs

Did you mean Netbox?

Well, yeah, thats why I’m saying if the action isn’t available directly from Forgejo, just write out the full action URL like the example in my last comment and pull it directly from GitHub. Most/all of the actions you’re pulling from Forgejo are originally forked from GitHub anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

With both Gitea and Forgejo, sometimes you need to hardcode the action URL, like:

https://github.com/actions/setup-java@v4

Skill issue.

I agree. Years back, when I was getting my CDL in the construction industry, my trainer recommended I get some overalls for comfort. I was in fairly good shape at the time, but man - the relief I felt from not having a belt digging into my gut while behind the wheel made it a lot easier to hop out of the cab and throw chain at a good pace, and I never had to worry about anything coming untucked. Was certainly a game changer.