Understand the systems you own.

Install Home Assistant OS on a Raspberry Pi 5, bring up a local smart-home dashboard, verify integrations and automations, and create a recovery backup.

Run Jellyfin 12.1 in Docker on an Intel-powered Ubuntu home server, organize your own media libraries, and enable Intel Quick Sync for efficient local streaming and transcoding.

Turn a used Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny PC into a wired Ubuntu Server home lab with stable LAN addressing, SSH administration, Docker Engine, Docker Compose, and a verified container service ready for future self-hosted projects.

Run Immich 3.2.2 on a private Ubuntu/Docker home server, store phone-photo uploads on dedicated local SSD storage, verify Android backup, and establish database recovery material without pretending one home-server copy is a complete disaster-backup strategy.

Build a two-drive TrueNAS home NAS with mirrored CMR disks, authenticated SMB file sharing, snapshots, drive-health monitoring, and a documented replacement path when one disk fails.

Build a single-node Proxmox VE 9.2 lab on a dedicated ThinkCentre Tiny, then run and recover both a Debian VM and an unprivileged Debian LXC container.