PieMePlenty

11th gen i3 NUC, headless Debian.

7 or 8w idle for the server. Comes to about 10eur per year. I couldn’t justify using more without feeling like a hypocrite who also advocates for energy conservation.

• Music directory -> directory for each artist -> directory for each album
• All files are properly tagged, also contain album art
• Lrc or text lyrics files next to mp3/flac files
• Locally, directory is reachable on SMB network share and DLNA for network players
• Navidrome serves the whole thing for streaming on the internet when I’m not home and presents everything in a browser for convenience when no app is used, on android I listen with Tempus
• Nextcloud can also reach it
• lrcget used for lyrics, mp3tag used for tagging
• Generally deal with full albums only

Even ABS?

My server got hacked once and was mining crypto! I noticed it when I heard the fans were at 100% when walking passed the room lol. Turns out, qbittorrent-nox used UPNP for its web admin endpoint enabled by default and qbittorrent can do many things like run custom scripts. My mistake was not changing its login credentials. Exposed my full system. Live and learn.

I remember a time when the gaming community’s darling, CDPR, sent lawyers to people’s homes, demanding they pay because they pirated The Witcher 2.

I don’t know how times have changes, but it definitely happened depending on when and where you lived.

waves hard drives with loose cables around
It’s just a hard drive! What’s the problem?!
gets shot

You’re installing a headless system right? Ubuntu and Debian are going to have very similar if not downright identical day to day operating procedures, including installing and setting up new things. Ubuntu is going to have software packages coming from a different repository and they may be newer (though this rarely matters) and the initial install may be different. One is backed by a for profit corporation and one by a large open source community. Whenever you need help, guides for Debian will probably work on Ubuntu and vice versa.

For home self hosting use, it boils down to you own philosophy. In practice, it won’t really matter… they’re both really similar.

I proudly use Debian BTW.

I generally agree with you and its what I did, but why do i need yet another device plugged in, draining power all the time? I dont want to leave an even larger co2 footprint and software support on existing hardware could aid in that. The android box is a workaround, not a green enough solution in my opinion.