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DX Engineer | Head of Developer Relations at /pinata | Building orbiter.host | stevedylan.dev/links | opinions are my own

im maybe halfway way there, it takes years to cultivate this lifestyle but i find the peace of mind very rewarding. me and my selfhost/smarthome would probably survive 2-4wks fully off grid with proper power rationing, long term target is 2-3mo.

i selfhost a modest rack in my closet, dozens of inhouse services, solar backup battery still WIP but i could keep the fridge cold and a single node running

4tb of video in jellyfin serves about 60% of the media i watch, adding 40tb disks WIP, plus an "apocalypse folder" with wikipedia, survival, medical texts

growing significant quantities of food is really hard and takes a lot of learned experience, but my hydroponic garden is a WIP research space and ill be ready to scale it up 20-40x in a few years

i don't have a p2p lora mesh or anything yet but im keeping an eye on the space.

im also working to fully integrate my campervan as an external site; van will run it's own solar, k8s, wifi, home assistant, iot, cctv, and jellyfin

Need more self hosting walls of text in my life

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