docker-ce v29 update somehow messed up my homelab so badly that I had to downgrade to v28 to restore my system.

Sorry, I just noticed that now.

You may create a bootable/live USB with Mint [1] installed on it, and try it out to see if its works perfectly for you - from functional and performance POV.

With Linux, at least you will continue to get security patches. For Win 7 and 10 are out of support now.

[1]https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/burn.html

Self hosting essentially stores all of your data on your hard drive, but it also allows access to that via local network (while at home) and over internet via secured tunnel (e.g. Wireguard tunnel, Tailscale) while away from home.

The good news is Nvidia consumer grade GPUs don’t even support vGPU and can’t be passed though if Host OS is using it.

My 3070Ti also doing just fine - both for Gaming and for running Llama.

Now, to be honest, I never had a chance to use AMD GPU on Linux, so I can’t really say if it is at par with AMD GPU performance or not.

Nate’s side of this story:

https://pointieststick.com/2025/09/16/a-few-corrections-about-the-transition-from-blue-systems-to-techpaladin

https://tailscale.com/ This is essentially a mesh Wireguard Tunnel connectivity that ensures only you can access your service remotely.

:D

Tailscale is going public, so I don’t really trust them anymore

Even if the source code is open?

In general, for self-hosting, we hardly rely on remote service/server. The whole idea of self-hosting is to shun dependency on external service/server, and run everything on your own hardware and network. So that every aspect of the service is in your control. I don’t think self-hosting comes with much risk, unless you make your service available on Internet.

On a side note: you can remotely access any service running on home network via Tailscale[1] / Cloudflare Tunnel. Your services are never exposed on Internet. Moreover, you don’t need to rely on Plex for that.

[1] https://tailscale.com/ [2] https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-networks/

Just a stupid question - Is self-hosting (and this forum) only applies to open source products?

UX is a subjective topic.

At first I didn’t noticed the 2nd image, and started wondering what kind of children book this is :P

Using Miniflux for more than year now with 0 issue so far.

My Nextcloud AIO :)

Nope, the server itself.

I though Signal Android client is open source and I can changed the server url if I can get server selfhosted.

I actually don’t want to run it on regular signal network. Just want to self-host it on my home server, and allow home devices to use it to communicate via tailscale.

Basically my own private signal network that my devices connected to.