I live in upstate New York, I have a general class license, and this is my first time using Lemmy (or any federated social for that matter).
My mobile rig is a VR-N7500 “50W” VHF/UHF. It uses Bluetooth control from my phone, and it does APRS.
My QTH rig is a Xiegu G90 on a 40m EFHW powered by micro solar. I mainly do FT8, as well as a little VARA HF WinLink. (I’m a bit mic shy and my antenna setup isn’t that great.)
I’m interested in POTA (and maybe SOTA).
Hope to meet some friendly folk!
Not at all! I actual have a few enterprise class Dell servers here at home that I host a handful of things on for myself and some friends. I have always believed in a more distributed internet and so when I learned about this project, I had to get involved.
That’s very cool!
It’s cool to run servers at home.
Its not cool. Its very hot. Keeping them cool is a constant battle! haha
I enjoy it. Media server, home automation, virtual desktops, and now Lemmy!
For cooling do you use air, water, or both?
I want to run a home media server. Something like Jellyfin probably. Maybe a Minecraft server too.
I also interested in rolling my own VPN. So far I’ve just use an SSH tunnel for traffic tunneling.
I just use air cooling at the moment. I might have to get a little A/C unit for the closet though.
I run a Plex server, but I will likely be switching to Jellyfin soon.
Look into Kasm I am actually using it instead of a VPN because I can log into it, spin up a browser instance, and browse all of my local network with it directly in a web browser anywhere. I can also spin up a terminal in the browser and SSH into any box I need on my network.
For your hosting, I highly recommend Proxmox. It can do full on virtuals or containers and the interface is super easy to use.
For a little while, I had a tiny web page running on a raspberry pi at my house.
I also used that raspberry pi for the SSH tunnel.
Raspberry Pi 1 B+
Love Raspberry Pis. Recently burned up a Rpi4 and Im still sad about it… Still need to replace it.
I want to grab one of the new models and make a portable station out of it for doing digital work. Mostly for stuff like POTA.