My Home Media Server: A Raspberry Pi 4 for Compute, a Synology NAS for Storage

Tue, 19 May 2026 14:30:00 -0300

My home media server is a Raspberry Pi 4 named uther. It runs Plex, the entire *arr stack, qBittorrent, a request manager, a reverse proxy, Vaultwarden as a password manager, and this very blog — all in Docker Compose. It sips around five watts at idle, more like seven during peak indexing, and the most expensive part of the whole setup is a separate Synology NAS sitting on the same shelf doing nothing but being a quiet, reliable hard drive over NFS.

Distrobox, Toolbx, and the 'What Would You Give and What Would You Keep' Question

Tue, 19 May 2026 10:30:00 -0300

“What would you give and what would you keep?” — Mase, From Scratch (Double Up, 1999)

Mase asked it about rewinding your whole life and starting over. I ask it every time someone on my team picks a development container stack. Because the moment you decide to let a container be your workstation — not just hold a service, but hold your editor, your shell, your language toolchains, your AUR packages on top of a Fedora host — you’re making a series of small, ugly trade-offs. What would you give up from your bare-metal workflow, and what would you keep?

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My Home Media Server: A Raspberry Pi 4 for Compute, a Synology NAS for Storage

Distrobox, Toolbx, and the 'What Would You Give and What Would You Keep' Question