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I built a homelab.
Basically you buy some old enterprise server hardware (or, if you are smart unlike me, you build low-power machines from scratch!) and then you can run your own services.
Some fun stuff includes:
And tons and tons of other stuff. It’s not cheap, it’s time consuming, and the wife hates the power bill. But if you’re into doing shit with computers, it’s a damn interesting rabbit hole
I started just with a 2 bay nas that I had a few VMs on... then it spiraled. Back with PIs were cheap it was fun to spin up new stuff all the time. Now an N100 mini-pc is way more cost effective long term, plus you get to start dipping into VMs, LXC, docker, etc.
Not to mention Home Assistant is an entire hobby in itself. 4 more aqara devices just came for me today.
I do feel like I should second the comment that it isn't cheap, but you can do things in bits and pieces that don't make it feel like you're spending your life savings.