Pi-hole for ad blocking.

vaultwarden, ntfy

Federation takes time. For federation there are bots, that automatically subscribe to communities on different instances.

Yes. You just have to copy your existing system to your new drive. I used dd for this. Afterwards resize your storage partition (the largest one) on the new drive. I used gparted for this for it’s simplicity.

Port forwarding, tailscale…

Note, that this will only work in the desktop mode, since the gaming mode uses wayland.

This IS a Linux community.

No Linux client is a big turnoff.

Guess I’ll be waiting for when it gets cheaper / goes on sale.

Yes. That’s why I sync my important files to my nextcloud.

Timeshift creates a btrfs snapshot on each boot for me. And my server gets nightly borg backups.

With the current pi prices, buying a used minipc might be cheaper and give you more resources.

Try the 64bit version. pi 3b should be compatible with it. Using the official flashing tool might fix any other issues.

Obsidian, or a normal txt

I usually use kde connect.

I prefer rarer, bigger, more tested updates, since I don’t pull the updated docker containers that regularly.

tldr is good for remembering how to use a command, once you find it.

Same with fish.

cinnamon or something

bash -> fish