Hit GitHub Actions limits too many times so I self hosted the CI in my living room (opens in new tab)

This was the second month in a row I hit the GitHub Actions minutes limit. And I'd already switched to Pro to get more - 3,000 minutes a month for private repos, at the time of writing. The bill creeps from the €4-ish I actually want to pay into double digits, and for what? Running the same builds I could run on hardware I already own. So I decided it was enough. I moved all of it onto self-hosted GitHub Actions runners: one small cloud box for deploys, and a 16GB mini PC sitting in my living...