I will check out that community. Seems incredibly friendly and supporting!

Proxmox is something in my distant future but regardless. I will hopefully get there eventually

Yes the piHole is running on a rpi.

Never actually thought about having it on the go. Cool idea!

That takes away a lot of stress. Knowing to just get started and ignore the best approach instead of just a getting started approach and learn as you go.

For the longest time I wanted to get rid if my google drive or google calendar and host one myself.

Email as I have read is something more advanced but I would like to self host my email as well.

Photos eventually too.

As a lot of people have recommended nextcloud that seems like where my interest might be heading.

As a starting point. Are there any hardware recommendations for a toy home server?

That seems like a sensible approach.

The whole area around selfhosting not just the deployment keeps me in somewhat of an analysis paralysis. Like what a reverse proxy is and why it is beneficial, how to set up and configure ssl and the whole area about not using a compromised service kind of keep me from starting.

Locally and not connected to the Internet might be the best way to get started and then I will hopefully someday be able to remotely use my services.

Trash guides did not show me anything when I tried to look them up. What exactly is that?

Docker seems the way to go for me now! Thank you for the nice write up.

I definitely do not now what I am doing so the word of caution is greatly appreciated!

The whole thing about remotely accessing is probably something I put on my ToDo list as soon as I get a service up and running. Nevertheless reading it and just knowing about Wireguard and Tailscale is a huge benefit to me.

Is there a personal recommendation which of your listed projects to get started with?

I am not unfamiliar with Linux.

Kind of lucky/unlucky as a broke student I did not have money to buy a new Windows machine.

Now I am kind of glad about it.

Docker on the other hand I have had barely any contact with it so far. So I definitely check that out.

Thank you! I will definitely give them a read/watch.

The hardest thing I face is the definition of small.

I struggled with the main definition of small. Thankfully there are kind people here to guide me in the right direction.

Starting with a service I do not just yet want to rely on is my main goal to build it up from there.

Thank you for sharing!

I will give it try it seems like a great starting point.

It depends. (Yeah I know I hate when people say that, too)

I first started my mechanical keyboard journey with an olkb Planck. That keyboard is already ortholinear but also a round about 40% keyboard.

Getting used to the size took some practise. I used it for a while as a hobby keyboard. I used monkeytype to increase my precision about 10 minutes a day and after about a week I was already pretty good. I can still remember being proud of myself when I first hit 60 wpm. After a month I was at 80 to 90 wpm.

With the 3w6 it did not take that long. Probably 2 weeks. It is my daily driver and I can recommend it. Especially if you have some shoulder pain or underarm stiffness/soarness.

Biggest issues are non standard/non US letters. But there are ways to work around it. Vial or QMK let you customize everything and are easy enough to use.

If you want some more info do not hesitate to contact me!

I usually just post if I can contribute anything meaningful. Seems like I a might be the embodiment of a lurker. Haha

As far as I can tell at least assembled in Germany. Cases are 3D printed by the seller.

The seller is a German local and approachable. PCB’s are ordered from somewhere but I can not tell you from where. Might be European might be Chinese.

Seems like a one person company and the German market for custom ergonomic low profile split keyboards isn’t too large.

So if you are interested just sent a message and ask yourself! His discord is active but as far as I can tell E-Mail works as well.

Wow. First post I can actually contribute to!

Yes, I have ordered a keyboard from keebart. I ordered the 3w6 and asked on his discord for some custom changes. He helped me with the customization and gave me a few options to choose from.

I wasn’t really too precise in what I wanted but keebart was really good in giving me exactly what I wanted.

Really happy customer. I picked it up in person and the response times on his discord are incredibly quick.