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  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldSimplify home hardware for selfhosting
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    Yeah, that is my standard way of doing things. Old desktop becomes the server, and it’s specs blow everything I want it to do out of the water, so things like file storage (and the CPU required to encrypt-on-disk), etc have no chance of ever presenting an issue. Though, I do have a pair of Pis with POE hats on them (as well as a POE switch), because I really like POE.

    Then I set it up for auto-updates and proceed to ignore it. Love very simple home networking setups that still accomplish every goal.

    The dedicated NAS appliances really annoy me. Every time I have had to use one I just think ‘I can just do this in Linux on any random desktop lying around, why am I learning another proprietary thing?’