I use tailscale instead of caring about my public IP or dynamic DNS

Most of the tweaks I’ve done for efficiency can be done on any distro.

9mm is the only metric a Texan needs in his life

To be clear, my point is that you should just start doing stuff. It’s a journey. Don’t spend much on hardware or electricity

I have a garbage dell wyze thin client with tiny11 and hyper-v running Homeassistant OS. I did this because the solar inverters and batteries have windows only software tools plus an android app in WSA. Also runs jellyfin with a few shows. I plan to migrate but can’t decide on what OS. I found out USB and serial passthrough will work, so I can use a Windows VM.

The networking is garbage because it’s actually got two wifi NICs, I haven’t pulled Ethernet. One dedicated to HAOS. Tailscale works great.

Dell Thin Client type machine with a 2TB SSD of the essentials. Backs up once a week to my gaming desktop. Has enough horsepower for Homeassistant, Jellyfin, adblocking. Enough fast USB for two 2.5GBE. Upgraded to 16GB RAM before the crisis, but could make due with 8GB. Cheaper than a raspberry pi for only a few extra watts.

Now that it’s spring, your toes can be out in style instead of inside of your Arch BTW socks

I like my LCD model; I’m glad I got it at a great deal. But I thought it was going to be the last batch of LCD ones back then.

Like how the Australians say No

My napkin math is similar, although I do wonder about transcoding machines where the old one is using CPU vs newer solutions in the GPU.

Have you considered putting your children in one of the storage freezers? /s

From my experience with tailscale so far - there are so many different ways to have it configured well. If it works well for you having it on the host, then go for it. I have home assistant in a VM with tailscale and tailscale on the (windows) host. This works well for my needs and I don’t mind having it running “twice”

Google gave up on their version of DeX or whatever? Good

Multiple versions, paths, and installs of Python. Using pip makes it worse.

I still don’t fully understand how to gracefully have multiple desktop environments and switch between them. When I want to try something new to me like lxqt, I usually spin up a VM.

Two actually

Can you tell me more about that TV?

If you do compile something, it is very easy to make it an installable package you could share. I’m not sure how the repos are managed

I chose to set up grafana, mqtt, etc for an RV instead of home assistant. Little more lightweight for the raspberry pi 3 I used. Pulling together solar info, so we could see how long the AC would keep running on the road