It all began with a simple desire: to get ads off the smart TV. This turned out to be a deceptively difficult endeavor—that ended with a patchwork solution: a netbook running pfSense downstream of the landlord’s router—for finer DNS control—and an old laptop that was reflashed with Debian, running Pi-hole for ad-blocking.
In case you have never heard the term, Homelab is the name given to a server (or multiple server setup) that resides locally in your home and where you host several applications and virtualized systems for testing and developing or for home and functional usage.
This server can be a simple tower or small PC or a Raspberry Pi like device or a repurposed professional server that you can acquire from companies who discard them due to their age but are still usable.
— Helder
This initial investigation sent me down the homelabbing rabbit hole, wondering what else was possible. What other issues in my tech life could I solve with self-hosting?