My self-hosting setup in 2026 (opens in new tab)

Prior to this year I’d been running everything on a Raspberry Pi 4 with an external SSD. For the most part it worked well, with the only noticeable performance issue being Plex sometimes struggling to transcode video on the fly. But towards the end of the year something went wrong with the SD card, necessitating a full reset. At the same time I was testing out dual-booting Linux for work, leaving me with a Mac Mini M1 that I wasn’t using. Rather than set everything up again on the Raspberry P...