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Obvious recommendation from my side is homeassistant if you are into smart home stuff.

If you go for an upgrade, old micro pcs like the lenovo thinkcenter tiny are good. Not sure if those are what you mean with thinclients. The main advantage of those imo is their x86 processor and enough power and ram to run proxmox and install multiple VMs on there for different stuff while still being quite power efficient overall.

I still have a NAS running like that by passing through my USB HDD to a Truenas VM. My other 2 VMs are one for Homeassistant OS (Using homeassistant just with docker is a bit complicated) and a separate VM just for docker applications.

I’ve heard that said about PETG in general before. Personally I never had any issues though. Is it worse when printing CF-PETG?

Self-Hoster 🏡

• Fleet: 2–3 devices · 11–20 TB
• Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Fun / the hobby itself
• My MVPs: Home Assistant, Navidrome, Jellyfin

Depending on how you define multiple operating systems, you can use proxmox

You can use a gps logging app (I use gps logger on android) to create gps tracks and sync them with your photos via the timestamp. Digikam has a tool for that built in, not sure what other software supports it.

This way I don’t have to manually tag every photo but instead only those where the gps failed because I was underground or where I forgot to turn it on

The Fractal Design Define R cases can house a lot of hard drives, but they are kind of big. My Define R6 can theoretically house 11 3.5" drives iirc in addition to 4x 2.5" but it does not come with that many drive sleds out of the box. For the 2.5" drives only 2 sleds are included. I think for the 3.5" it was about 6.

For phone <-> PC I use localsend. If I do PC to PC, possibly even large amounts of files or large files in general I put them on a network drive specifically intended for that purpose

I know you didn’t mention video but if you think you might want to host jellyfin in the future, make sure your CPU supports hardware decoding for modern formats.

For example, my lenovo mini pc with an i5-6500 has support for h265 but not h265 10bit or AV1, which makes playing those formats on some devices basically impossible without re-encoding the files.