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My Debian host has GUI installed. Sometimes it’s handy when i connect keyboard and mouse to do some repairs.

virt-manager for qemu. I also did some cloud init script with LLM to have a nice way of spinning up new vms with a server user, ssh and my access keys. VMs have also on big advantage. It’s easy to back up entire qcow2 disk image and then if necessary move entire VM to a different host.

I personally go with VMs. Except of some services that I run on Hetzner.

I got one Debian server that runs multiple VMs with tailscale. Then one Hetzner VPS with Caddy. This one acts as a public gateway.

Some things are still running bare metal, like Immich or Jellyfin because of apple hardware. However the level of entropy I have now is th opposite of all eggs in on basket. I sometimes forget what do I have where and have to look it up in my docs.

This is such an insane headline that it’s either an ultimate click bait (and if that’s the case I even like it) or OP is on drugs.

I use a mix of few things

• kapus.app for starters where a device is completely new and I need to pass some secrets like login to Nextcloud to get keepass or something
• Nextcloud - documents that I rarely access. Some bigger files
• syncthing - for often access files like main keepass. Home server acts as a de-facto hub.
• quick share for an airdrop replacement
• if quick share is not working for some reason I also have a private channel on matrix where I can share some stuff quickly as-hoc

Borg + hetzner backup storage (that supports Borg and rsync but I use Borg so my backups are encrypted)