

- Forgejo - git hosting
- actual budget - spending tracking mostly
- Vaultwarden
- home assistant - still configuring
Mama told me not to come.
She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.
Main issue is drives. If your data is modest, multiple NVMe drives could be affordable, but if you have lots of data, you’ll want HDDs, and those won’t fit. Make sure you actually want a miniPC down the line before buying, because expansion is limited.
Yeah, the case and mobo are frequently 2x the price of a mATX build. But pretty much everything else can be done on a budget (e.g. I’m using an ATX PSU in my ITX case).
SSH tunneling is absolutely amazing, glad you figured it out.
We had a similar issue at work. Basically, we had a corporate laptop (Windows) that we couldn’t install anything to, and we needed to set up local development against a service running on the laptop. But since we couldn’t actually install anything w/o going through the IT dept (nobody wants to do that), I remembered that they had gotten git installed, and that comes w/ a shell which has SSH available. So I used that to SSH tunnel to the dev laptop (running macOS) and they were able to continue working.
SSH tunnels are a fantastic tool to have in your toolbox. :)