Muy bueno 👏

Next, I would pick modern workload software to learn. By workloads I mean cool open source software out there. A lot of people are finally moving from VMs to containers in their home labs.

1. docker - modern way to run workloads is containers and it isn’t too bad to pick up. Portainer ce is free for a small number of nodes if you want a GUI.

If you are studying computer science / learning coding on your own, it’s a great way to deploy your code

2. kubernetes (ex: k3s) - these can also be super light weight (k3s is super light weight) and is an incredibly popular way to run resilient container systems.

Both approaches will lead you to things like lets encrypt for certs, tons of cool free apps out there like grafana / Prometheus to learn monitoring, home assistant for light bulb control 💡, and increased Linux experience. Heck, you can connect both to your truenas storage over nfs. Explore ceph ( micro ceph for microk8s) or longhorn if you want to create distributed, replicated storage for app data in k8s.

Have fun out there and sorry for just convincing you to buy more crap with the money you don’t have 😁👍🏼😆

I wish I would’ve known about these before I went with my dell 3080s to save on space.

Either way glad I can run connectx-4’s 😎

I only upgrade when learning becomes too much of a pita with current hardware.

I should be good for a few years.