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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • There’s a few different services you can use to set it up. I quite like Buildkite since they’ve got a pretty easy setup for running jobs on your own hardware, but I think several other CI services have a self-hosting option.

    The best part about it for me is I can run GPU tests and do automatic screenshot diffs for my game engine. Normally renting a GPU server is super expensive, but it’s basically free to run myself using my old hardware.


  • I self-host a decent bit of stuff. My setup has been to rent rack space in a datacenter to put my own storage server in, plus a second server at my house that I mirror backups between. I run my own VPN, “Cloud” storage, lemmy instance, game servers, websites, CI build systems, media streaming, etc… You can find some cheap server hardware on eBay that’s only a generation or two old, which you’ll need if you’re running in a datacenter, but for home servers it’s super easy to just set up an old desktop with a battery backup.


  • There’s plenty of seedbox companies out there, you can get 10Gbps+ connections and they run the torrent client for you so there’s no upload happening from your local PC at all… Many offer VPN capabilities at the same time, but for general browsing I use a VPS with my own wireguard.




  • I think the biggest thing lacking in this kind of hardware is displays. Where can you find a phone-sized 1080p display that doesn’t require signing some NDA or reverse engineering the specs? OLED would be even better for battery life.

    I don’t see that probably 360p black-or-white e-ink display is going to be a good experience unless you’re comparing it to a flip phone.