Not sure why I was downvoted for answering a question accurately.

I use an SMTP Relay for sending mail, so I don’t hit issues with sending.

I’m also using iredmail. Apart from it needing more hardware than it used to its been pretty stable. I use an SMTP Relay for sending mail, so I don’t hit issues with sending. Not that I ever actually send many emails.

No. I host Firefox that runs in a browser.

It’s one of my favourite things. So places that may block certain sites can be bypassed.

Opnsense

Vaultwarden

Email

Home assistant

Emby

Gitea

Paperless-ngx

Firefox

Some context shots. This is in my garage which is directly below my living room. Everything leads back here and the cat cable from the fibre ONT leads here from the other side of the garage also. I have 2 redundant gig links to a switch in the living room where it was weirdly easier to go outside the garage, up the outside wall and then back in to the house.

There is a rack mount standard desktop with a 4 port Intel NIC and an IT mode HBA, 6 spinning HDDs, an SSD and 2x NVME drives. This is my main Proxmox server running Opnsense and a whole host of other services, including email. On to of it I have a monitor, 3 external HDDs used for backups and another desktop I picked up cheap which runs as the Zoneminder CCTV box.

At the very top there is a cheap POE dumb switch that powers the CCTV camera and then a Netgear 24 port switch with VLANs configured for various networks - Main, IoT, VoIP, CCTV… I have the same switch up in the living room also.

At the very bottom almost invisible is a Belkin UPS and a strip adapter that has several smart plugs in which I use to power my backup drives. That way my backup drives are off, not just unmounted unless a backup is running. The aim was to avoid any attacker / system wide issue taking down the backup drives. I sleep a smidgen better at night for that.

Not pictured is an Odroid HC2 that lives upstairs and that I had hoped to rig up as a remote backup device, but I’ve never really got around to setting it up properly or putting anything other than a small capacity HDD in. It does run HomeAssistant though so that’s pretty useful.

A bit more context

More guts showing the mess.

Lets just appreciate how damn lucky I was when I picked up this server rack. It doesn’t fit with the carpet down, so had to peel that back. Millimetre perfect.

I seem to get stuck on them occasionally. Like I’m at the top or bottom but can’t just walk off.

FYI, that’s roughly 50x the normal average over the past 3 months. And also the highest ever concurrent users was 4 hours ago. Not bad.

Just started playing it. So far I can’t remember it at all. I played HL1 so much and have recently started with Black Mesa. I remember a lot of EP1, also. Managed to clock 3 hrs on HL2 today and there’s only one bit I remember, I think. Good fun game. Only annoyance are the ladders and getting on / off them well.

I bought Trepang 2 the other day too and that has a similar era vibe, but with a modern take.

FIA:

I’m the same

That’ll be cool. I’ll dress as Wes Borland

Cool. What concert at the tickets to? I love seeing loud bands play.

Game changer? Literally not at all. It’s a bit better.

That was my point

If it’s for more than a minute I’ll screw in VGA and DVI cables

20 years ago there were 2000000000 fewer people in the world.

Everyday I have skin.

I also use E45 on my awfully dry hands and slightly dry face.

To send to the same account?

I haven’t paid anything for it