I was doing some hardware repair on one of my servers this past weekend. Then AHT asked me about recommendations for a travel chrome-book. Got to thinking how many machines I have and use in my household. It’s a lot.
- my main linux desktop in my office which runs linux Mint
- my main laptop (also running linux, Ubuntu for this one), which I use for mobile computing around the house and as my travel laptop
- an older Macbook air donated by Claire which I use for fiddling with mac stuff, when I do that
- my main server in the basement (its a tower with 8 HDD and 28TB of storage) which I use as my NAS running in OMV. It also runs a few virtual machines on it – my Plex server, a Duplicity backup server for backing up our family photo collection in the cloud, a Windows 7 VM for my weather station software and my BlueIris weather cam software, a linux VM for running my secondary weather station software, a torrent server, and a server managing my Unifi access points
- a backup Plex server (running OMV, with 12 TB storage) for backing up all my Plex media weekly
- four raspberry pi’s in my office I use these for running various servers such as Pihole (for ad blocking), Network monitor, (Uptime Kuma), a music server, second torrent server, and one which takes snapshots every minute from my weather cameras and makes a daily time-lapse from them every night
- an router/firewall appliance running OPNSense software as my firewall and DHCP server
- two Lenovo tiny PC’s. One of them runs Windows 10 for when the software I want to use only runs on Windows (like the tax software I use) since I’m pretty much all linux on my other boxes). The other one is running my home automation software (Home Assistant) which runs as a VM in Proxmox, a hypervisor for VM’s and containers
- two Dell micro PC’s. One is running my sealweather website (eventually to be moved to a different machine). The other runs some VM’s on another Proxmox node – a VM for my reverse proxy server (manages incoming web traffic), a WordPress site (theseals.ca and eventually sealweather.ca), a live TV server (Jellyfin) and a Nextcloud server for file sharing, and auto-downloading of my photos from my phone to my network
- a raspberry pi running in my garage as an “offsite” backup location for all my photos and music files. Files from my main server are automatically backed up once a week
- a raspberry pi (v1) that I have running an mqtt broker (a message server) which transmits info from one of my weather stations to my secondary weather page in real-time.
- a mini desktop (running linux of course) near all my basement servers to access them through a KVM switch
- a raspberry pi zero-w which runs the FlightRadar24 software to detect and report on all aircraft within 100km+ radius of my house.
- and Lisa’s and Claire’s macbooks
And not included in this list are the number of old laptops I have lying around waiting for decommissioning or some other re-use.
I think that’s all.