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I really don’t feel like working, and I don’t want to apply for jobs either. It’s so terribly exhausting.

This sentence makes me think that OP doesn’t want to work at all but I may be mistaken.

Regarding living on welfare in Germany. Yes, it’s not much but if you compare that to the U.S.A. then you are good off.

I never lived there so my opinion is purely based on reading and videos I’ve been seeing over the years. From having a job and a roof over your head to being homeless seems to be just a step away. Then you have those stories of people having 2 or 3 jobs. Are those cases really so isolated or is it a reality for lots of people?

In Germany this is unthinkable.

That’s the keyword. American. OP is most likely living in Germany where you get money from the government even if you don’t work. It may be little but enough to survive. This is the reason that people there may choose to not work at all. Quite sad I must say.

I would not be able to vegetate like this. I need and want to work. It’s not fun but a part of life.

Anyway. Hope things will someday get better where you are so you don’t have to work only to survive but can enjoy life a bit more.

I was living in Spain for 25 years and there we would definitely use vosotros. Ustedes is used in middle and South America.

If your server doesn’t rely on docker I would give FreeBSD a try. I’ve been using Debian for 20 years and moved to FreeBSD a few years ago. Now I can never go back. Not that I don’t like Debian anymore but FreeBSD is a true server system. Simple, fast and stable. And with their jails implementation (something like docker but less obscure) you can easily isolate your services from the rest of the system.

True. Getting a TB of storage is not affordable nowadays. And we know why. F*©k AI.

But here in Poland you can still find some used Q920 with the same specifications.

If you are located in Europe they would most likely send it even to your country.

This one would be like the one I have.

https://allegro.pl/oferta/solidny-i-kompaktowy-komputer-micro-fujitsu-q920-i5-16gb-2000-ssd-w11-praca-17993236542

I haven’t. They only provide docker deployment which I’m not fond of. If they would offer an alternative installation method I may would. Heard a lot of good things about it.

At present I use Nextcloud client on my phone to backup photos and the Memories app to nicely browse them.

I don’t know exactly what you want host but I have an old Fujitsu Q920 i5 with 16 GB of RAM and a 2 TB SSD drive which cost me around 200 Euro.

I’m serving around 20 services on it including Nextcloud, Navidrome, Paperless NG, Emby, Matrix, Friendica, Wireguard, Zabbix, DNS blocker and a few VMs. Processor utilization is around 5% most of the time and it uses about 8 GB of RAM.

I admit that Nextcloud could be more responsive and faster but for the family it is enough.

I haven’t exactly checked how much electricity I’m using but I would have noticed a bigger change on my bill.

For backups I have a remote node at another location that retrieves ZFS snapshots periodically.

Anyway. I have this setup for 2 years now and I’m happy. It does what I expect it to do.

As a side note. i use FreeBSD with jails and bhyve for this. A Proxmox running VMs with nested Docker apps may need something more performant so be aware.