That’s me. I don’t regret not pursuing a career though because my achievements don’t make me feel accomplished. When I get a service running I mostly feel relieved. But, I want the things self hosting provides, so I do the work self hosting demands.

Fedegenerate
The beer bottle for our beetle brains. These beautiful bots bemusing these bewildered boomers don’t exist.
Old workstations perhaps? Hp z440esq things? An example of such a project.
Perhaps even that is overkill though.
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Shame there isn’t a “your deezer” that sounds really cool. Anyways user facing service LXCs (eg. Jellyfin) have Tailscale installed. Here’s my services by box:
NAS: Ugreen DXP4800 pro-Proxmox
-Pihole
-NginxProxyManager
-Homarr
-Audiobookshelf
-Jellyfin
-Seerr
-Immich
-Syncthing
-Searxing
-Paperless
-Vaultwarden
-Mealie
-Joplin
-Docker host #1(Romm, LibroFM downloader, audiobookshelf/hardcover integration)
-Docker host #2 (*arrs)
-Proxmoxx
-Redundant pihole
-Redundant NginxProxyManager
-Syncthing
-Immich machine learning
-DietPi
-Tailscale
-Pihole
-NginxProxyManager
-One poor soul has syncthing and a couple of drives for a remote backup.
I have a spare no name n100 box that I would like to turn into a network box one day, then I can manage my Airvpn and Tailscale access through that. But for now the ISP router is fine, I guess.