In this post I will go over my hardware and homelab setup. My main machine and daily driver is a desktop PC that is currently running Void Linux. No particular reason for that. I'm currently just trying different things to see what suits my needs best, but I think I'm going back to gentoo somewhat soon. I like gentoo because out of all package managers, I think portage is the best. I don't even care about the use-flags, I just like portage. The compile times don't bother my either, since there's only a handful of packages that take somewhat long to compile and they only get an update every couple of months. I use my main machine for basically everything. It's my daily driver after all. I use it for software development, gaming and browsing the web. It also serves as a sorry excuse for a homeserver. I store a vast amount of movies and music, which I serve to my home network via jellyfin. I also have a corebooted Thinkpad T440p, which is used as a workstation when I'm going to be away for a couple of days. The T440p is a bit hefty, but it is equipped with everything I need: A VGA Port, multiple USB Ports, a CD Drive and an SD Card reader. It runs Devuan with stable repo. I have another Thinkpad X260 that is running FreeBSD. I use it as my mobile workstation whenever I leave my house. Since it's a bit smaller and lighter, it is more portable than the T440p. I also use it to test applications I might need on my main machine, so I can finally decide whether I make the switch to FreeBSD as a daily driver or not. My server that runs all my webservices is a random Acer Laptop I bought 13 years ago. To my surprise I've never run into any issues, despite it being very old. It is running on Debian stable. It is hosting the following services: - [radicale](https://cal.cafebabe.gay) (a calendar and contact card service) - [invidious](https://invidious.cafebabe.gay) (alternative youtube frontend) - [LibreY](https://search.cafebabe.gay) (a meta search engine) - [git](https://git.cafebabe.gay) (my git server) - and a Matrix server (hosted at cafebabe.gay) I also have a pihole in my network.