I love this community, I used to rant about efficiency all the the time on reddits self hosting community and everyone thought I was insane. If the damn thing is going to run 24/7 for 5+ years then put a little thought into its power usage!

I personally love old Dell optiplex micros on eBay. Cheap, plentiful laptop hardware in a cute little box which allows modest upgrades. My primary server in a full sized case is just a laptop CPU, Ryzen 5600g. It brings me joy that my network has four servers and still is under 75w idle for everything including networking gear.

I migrated from WordPress to Grav and love it. If you know markdown Grav is easy, efficient and FAST.

I host my own cloud and various other services for myself and whole family. Any 404 resolves to a rickroll and I’m never mad, often letting it play fully.

Americans avoid it like the plague for some reason. I always back in because I can look at the spot for objects or problems before I start backing in to ensure I dont hit anything. Backing out blind can be risky otherwise.

33% have severely deficient IQ

I just installed mine for the first time 4 days ago. I was excited, it worked, looked great. Then it cracked, in 4 days. I have no faith in screen protectors anymore.

I went a little crazy and setup my own wireguard VPN network, all the remote hosts connect to the VPN and the primary server connects to each of them and pushes backups. Because I use btrfs and lots of snapshots I use btrbk, annoying to setup but now my hourly snapshots get pushed everywhere, minimal bandwidth and it flawlessly has worked for years.

I do this except the offline copies are raspberry pis, they grab an update then turn their network card off and go black for about a month. Randomly they turn on the network card, pull a fresh copy and go black again. Safe from randomware and automatic.

I have a trailer (workshop) with solar power, batteries, a raspberry pi controlling everything and a cellular hot spot. It pumps all the solar, battery information and light controls over MQTT and home assistant over cellular. So yes its possible, what do you want to do?

This is an outrageous recommendation but it is a pretty complete filter to find the educated, 55+ crowd!

Shit I thought I was so damn novel. Blast you.

Ditto, my daughter thinks its great.

I came into this thread all puffed up with pride, only to be humbled by your post. Humility is important, thank you. Please accept my upvote as an insufficient offering to those who came before us.

I host it on the host that runs the script and proxy it. I have one mission critial pi that is my uptime bot, pi hole and backup VPN if my elaborate server falls on its face. But you could easily use docker volumes too, and have the script push to that folder.

Yep, here is the yaml but redacted

- type: entities
            title: Communication
            entities:
              - type: weblink
                name: Webmail
                url: https://postale.io/
                icon: mdi:email
              - type: weblink
                name: Mattermost
                url: https://mm.stuff.com/
                icon: mdi:chat
              - type: weblink
                name: Mumble Server
                url: https://mumble.stuff.com/
                icon: mdi:radio-handheld

Similar, but more fancy, I have a bash script that runs every 15 minutes and ingests a config file. The config file has a super simple CSV format of every service I have. It checks that all the services are operational and generates an HTML file from it. If any services are down the HTML will show its down, otherwise its just a helpful link.

I just made a landing page in HASS, if you’re already running three instances could you make a page in one?

Older speakers like that use always on transformers, constantly wasting energy to keep the core energized. You’re correct those cannot be made any more, they must use efficient switch mode supplies.

Not directly answering your question, but I’m an avid Gardner with 15 years of hobby experience and I stopped growing spinach because it attracted so many pests and I don’t spray. I found varieties of kale with delicate leaves better because they grow faster, were much more bug tolerant and tasted as good or better.

If you have some outdoor space and interest, growing some greens for yourself is very easy if you get the right varsities.

I know way too much about the propagation of plasma in fluorescent lighting. When you first hit a fluorescent tube with high voltage you need some cosmic radiation to rip off the first barium ion off the cathode which causes a tiny little lightning strike of plasma that skitters across the inner surface of the tube. Once it makes its way across the length of the tube to the anode you now have a conductive path. This path then grows tremendously until it envelopes the whole cross section starting from the anode and works it’s way back to the cathode until the whole tube is filled with wonderful plasma that makes light when it excites the phosphor coating.