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I actually think buying a first gen Mac Mini M1 is a better idea with a thunderbolt drive storage. I have friends in California that does this for the reasons y
by syntaxing 3y ago
I actually think buying a first gen Mac Mini M1 is a better idea with a thunderbolt drive storage. I have friends in California that does this for the reasons you mentioned. The utility price has made homelab servers and 3D printing pretty much non viable unless you want to pay a $300+ electricity bill.
- ufish235 3y agoActually I do have an M1 Mac Mini - what's his setup? Maybe my problem is that MacOS doesn't feel as friendly for getting an entire homeland setup.
- syntaxing 3y agoHe runs Jellyfin straight up from the downloads page [1]. I'm not entirely sure if it runs on Rosetta but he hasn't had any issues with multiple streams. For storage you have a couple options but enabling file sharing on macos + a large drive of your choice is your best bet. [1] https://jellyfin.org/downloads/macos https://jellyfin.org/downloads/macos
- lostlogin 3y agoIt’ll run through docker surely? A nice docker compose media server is a beautiful thing to behold. I use a Nuc but the Mac mini would be a great server (though costs a lot).
- seanp2k2 3y agoIf anyone wants to try this, be wary of transcode acceleration / HW passthru with Docker, esp on M1/M2. In general I’d love it if there was a GUI-less stripped-down MacOS Server edition instead of running the full-fat consumer OS as an always-on server.
- ufish235 3y agoWhat is there to be wary of? It won't work at all?