I have the somewhat unique experience of being a 2x uni dropout so I have some of the education and none of the qualifications. Just ended up getting a job in a factory as an operator and becoming an engineer anyway within 5 years. Now I just wonder where I might be if I didn’t waste that time and money and got a job straight out of school.

Remind me the point of higher education again? I’m not seeing its ROI anymore.

1080 might manage it

Get a bunch of security cameras and have rolling 2 months of footage if u like. Or download the entire netflix library forever.

• Nextcloud - I basically just use it as a Google drive replacement
• Immich
• SearXNG (will probably remove it because I don’t really use it)
• Jellyfin + arr stack + qbittorrent for 🦜. I also have IPTV hooked in. Everything that needs to is routed though nordVPN / mullvad
• Jellyseer
• Home Assistant (I’ve barely scratched the surface, mostly just used for:
• Predbat (manages solar with agile tariff)
• frigate+ (3 cam reolink NVR)
• keepassxc / syncthing
• ariang - download manager. I have it set up such that anything I add to the download queue downloads between 0000 and 0600.
• Some vibe coded app I made to rank movies using pairs and suggest new ones.
• adguard
• grafana
• ntfy
• coolercontrol (fan curves for server)
• otter wiki (my own idiots guide on how it’s all set up)
• and a homepage/dashboard

Only external access is from my phone via tailscale. I also run Claude code on there so I can remotely do stuff on the server using natural language while away from home.

The server is just a mishmash of old parts I had lying around. I only needed to purchase a case and a drive to get it going.

Server runs ubuntu lts I5 4690k 16gb ddr3 Rtx 2060 6gb Currently about 11tb storage