I misunderstood this feature. For some reason the way it was worded, I thought it was more of an "I'm about to die, let me establish this other user with access to my vault"

I recently started tinkering with Nix too, pretty neat.

I had 3 R640s at home churning kubernetes for about a year. The main benefit of it for me was that it was an enjoyable and fun learning experience. Ultimately I received no real benefit in availability due to just city power issues and me not wanting to shell out for that large of a UPS to prevent a kubernetes cluster disaster. Ultimately due to energy use and the heat, I scaled back to running a bunch of docker loads on a NUC extreme, and one of my R640s. Of course you could also run k3s on a string of raspberry pis or something too.

My realtor was trying to sell me a trailer that was a mobile lan party that she would rent for events. Which was a brilliant idea. I had no time since I work multiple jobs. But that would be an awesome side gig. She got it for her son as a business but he opted to work at Lowes instead for some juvenile reason.

Radarr for movies, Sonarr for TV shows, Lidarr for music and Prowlarr to aggregate torrent/usenet sources and sync to the other arr apps. oh and overseerr to request movies/tv (even if it's just for yourself... it's a nicer interface and has better recommendations than the arrs)

through HACS you can set up the HASS agent for your pc. Work probably won't want it on their computuer, but if you run teams/slack on your home pc, you can configure sensors for all kinds of stuff. including a powershell script result. or an active process. You can configure it to when teams/slack is running on your PC during work hours, Your remote working light turns on. or something like that.

throwing out a mention for usememos. https://www.usememos.com. It's opensource

plex is my main purpose for self hosting and always has been. Also i'm a sr systems engineer, so my selfhosting environment is also for experimenting with things for my career. I was trying make my media accessible to friends since 2009 or so, back when the Boxee came out. I've made use of the *arrs. overseerr, so my people can just request content from there instead of piling up a wish list to dump on me out of the blue.

outside of media, these prove useful for life and my career (that aren't just supporting the homelab)

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I use synology for my storage and i like their email server / webmail.

syncthing i use for keeping my emulator saves in sync across all my devices, as well as some documents.

vaultwarden

privatebin (vault warden has this feature... but i don't want my vaultwarden directly exposed)

usememos is my favorite quick note app. i like obsidian but i can't get behind it until it's web friendly. I know someone built a docker image of obsidian that runs from a webtop but egh it's ugly. The ipad app is nice though. There are some other options that are closer to obsidian, but I just really like usememos.

slash is nice link shortener which lets you view metrics for the links you create. I think it's made by one of the team members that made usememos.

resumeRX. I apply for different types of roles so i have several different resumes I need to tailor for different positions.

immich. just because i refuse to pay for apple/google photos storage and using enough space to be forced to keep using them.

phpipam/netbox. i like documenting my network but not in a spreadsheet.

duplicati. local and cloud backups

drawio. just a self hosted version of the web drawio. can't be making diagrams containing sensitive information on some random publicly hosted server.

actualbudget. it's helpful, but I still wish there was a better option for this. I know there is firefly III. actualbudget is cleaner and easier to navigate.

metube. i'm' always needing to download youtube videos for some reason or another.

gitlab

planka (my wife and I both use this... basically trello)

Home assistant. I've got a lot automated. Mostly for fun, but still makes my life easier. My window shades, lights, fans, bathroom fans, TVs, presence sensors, A/C, garage doors, fridge, cameras, doorbell are all in node-red. My windows all close and lights turn off if my wife and I are both away unless there is a guest. etc. the windows open if it's stormy (I love storms). bathroom fans come on when the humidity hits a threshold, my garage lights come on if a person or car is in my driveway, but not a squirrel or bird, etc.