Homelabs

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Anyone running a Mac Mini/Studio as a server at home?

Been thinking of coping one for /quil-mining and future projects but running full macOS in the background feels kinda wasteful compared to a lean Debian or Ubuntu build.

I’m having trouble deciding if that sweet Apple Silicon is worth it in the long run.

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homebridge, some telegram bots, yt-dlp, other various cron jobs. this was before i had everything in unraid and didn’t want to run a VM — at this point i might as well get rid of it. 

i set it up once through VNC and now just ssh to it from time to time when needed.

I’m sure it runs fine, but how do you maintain/provision it? What does it do/run?

I’d love to have proxmox run on all my machines, and just have them communicate directly there, but maybe that’s an arbitrary limitation I’m imposing on myself.

i have a very old one running as a server. headless macOS on apple silicon should not be even an issue at all

I used iMac 27' in old time and then replaced by Apple M1 mini. 
Still use iMac for repository or main Redis server. Has multiple VPS as slave servers and iMac as main server. 

Just bought mac studio and plan to add M1 mini into homelab.
Apple silicon should have less power consumption.

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Oh that’s very helpful to know. Yeah I basically want to be able to deploy a few different apps. And ideally run a few nodes for different things. 

Can you deploy apps using docker to proxmox or similar?

I think proxmox is a great starting point if you ever want to dip your toes into other OS'es, especially for a homelab!

Setup is straightforward and you end up with a web UI you can access on your local network. It makes it trivial to spin up VMs where you can tinker around with.

Yeah been looking at that or the odroid h4 but I’m a noob at non osx OS’es.

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Not yet! I only heard of @we running it on a MBP.

As an aside, there’s some irony for me as my first Mac device was actually a hackintosh I made in 2015

I have been doing this since the release of the M1 Ultra studio. Highly recommend it. I use it mostly as a remote backend for my IDE on MacBook Air and iPad, and I definitely don’t see its OS using up much of my resources ever.