Very nice post indeed, even though I chose years ago to stop at just running Debian stable, for personal stuff. Someone, maybe 10 years ago, said that at scale

Very nice post indeed, even though I chose years ago to stop at just running Debian stable, for personal stuff. Someone, maybe 10 years ago, said that at scale, one should treat servers like cattle not pets. At home, I feel it’s OK to treat your server as a pet. One self hosted server that does it all is not a 2020 anomaly, it’s just boring and effective :) I have spent a small part of my imposed 2020 free time simplifying my family digital cattle to a cow self hosted digital pets. I liberated myself both from gear and services I was maintaining for affective value or some professional distorsion; the openbsd systems I love but don’t use enough, the apple rmbp I never use, the VPSes for my personal services, ... donated, sold, resigned. It feels great.