Main machines

2016 Apple Macbook Pro (i7, 16gb ram)
My main machine - I use this for pretty much everything! It’s getting a little tired now, but I think there is still some life left in it! Much of my computing is offloaded to my servers these days anyway!

Other computers & tech
2017 Apple Macbook Pro (i5, 8gb ram) - My work provided machine. Nice to have a separation between it and my other machines.

Apple iPad Pro
Can’t remember what year/generation. Mainly used to read blogs and eBooks!

Apple iPhone 14 Pro
I saved up for about 8 months to pick this up. It’s…fine.

Media/ Gaming P.C
I think this has become more media than gaming as the years have gone on!

• Windows 10
• i7 6700k
• 32gb ram
• 2tb SSD
• Asus ROG STRIX GTX1080
• Kodi/ PlexKodiConnect/ Emulationstation/ Steam

Home Servers

Primary Server
My main server. Built Summer 2021 with the following specs:

• Ubuntu 20.04 Server (Primarily as a docker host)
• i7 10700K
• 32gb ram
• 1tb boot NVME ssd, 40tb (80tb raw) RAID 6 array from 4x 20tb Hitachi/WD Ultrastar disks \

Proxmox Server
An Intel Nuc running some VMs & some LXC containers

• Proxmox 6.4 (Debian base)
• i5 7260U
• 32gb ram
• 1tb ssd

Borg Backup Server
This has been retired from main server duties, partly because the case was a bit of a bastard to work in! It was the Primary server for half a decade running Ubuntu 16.04, so not bad going.

• i3 6300
• 16gb ram
• 256gm boot nvme ssd, 30tb (40tb raw) RAID 5 array from 4x 10tb Hitachi Ultrastar disks

Software

Self Hosted
I use this so often I don’t think I could go without! All in Docker containers across the hosts listed above:

• Bitwarden (Password Manager)
• Plex (Media Centre)
• Home Assistant (Smart Home software)
• Nextcloud (Personal cloud)
• Joplin (Private notes in markdown with Nextcloud backend)
• Wireguard (VPN)
• Firefly iii (budgeting software)
• Piwigo (Photo management)
• COPS (eBook server)
• Transmission (Torrent client)
• NZBGet (Usenet client)
• FreshRss (RSS Reader)
• MySQL (Database)
• Overseerr (Media requester)
• Jackett/ NZBHydra (Torrent & Usenet search)
• Webmentiond (Webmention server)
• Matomo (Web analytics)
• Tautulli (Plex analytics)

MacOS / iOS

• Firefox
• Brave (for work)
• Atom text editor
• iTerm2 (MacOS)/ Prompt (iOS) (Awesome terminals)
• Screens4 (VNC/RDP)
• Reeder (RSS Reader)
• Lunasea (Media requesting, Tautulli stats)

Misc

• ZSH (Really nice extension of bash. It’s a bit bloated, but I really like oh_my_zsh too)
• Tmux (The integration with iTerm2 makes this a really cool experience)
• Docker compose (A nice way to orchestrate docker containers)
• Hugo for building this site!

Lastly, I really like Protonmail as my email provider. They just updated their app too and it’s really great to use!