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!

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      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.

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          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!

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            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.

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              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.