General Blog

Happy New Year

2026-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

It’s 2026

The new year is upon us. It’s 2026, it will be an important year for me, a lot will happen health-wise, which I hope will help my chronic pain.

I didn’t explain a lot about my disabilities here, but I have chronic pain and chronic fatigue (CFS). Among other things.

It killed my academic career and forced me to find a job at the end of my bachelor’s degree, but I accepted it and I’m happy with how it turned out.

Year of Health

I remember CGP Gray’s videos on new year’s wishes. I kind of agree, and in his spirit I think the main topic of 2026 will be Health.

I need to take care of myself, I learned that the hard way on the past few months.

Year of… Going out?

I don’t want my year to be all about health though, I’m approaching medical burnout.

And for external problems I decided I needed friends, and potentially a partner. Thus I decided to go out more.

Some weeks I’ll go out to a meeting of queer people, some weeks I’ll try to go out in quiet bars, some weeks I’ll just rest at home.

I also want to find a TTRPG group I can join.

Afterwords

Happy New Year everyone! May 2026 bring happiness on you.

I hope I’ll have a good year, I think I’m gonna have a good year, well I’m mostly hoping.

Best wishes, Cheers,

Charlotte Thomas.

Services (The Third Time)

2025-12-14T00:00:00+00:00

This is an update to my services articles.

Baremetal infrastructure

My main infrastructure is now hosted on one small server in my living room, connected to a UPS.

This server (name starbaseone) is a modified M5 PLUS box, with the following specifications

AMD Ryzen 7 5825U 8C-16T (4.55GHz)
32 GB of DDR4 RAM
512 GB of NVME SSD storage

I installed Proxmox VE on it and created two VMs

Galaxy which like its namesake is the replacement of Ambassador
- With 8 threads; 16GiB of RAM; and 256GB of storage
Daystrom which is a internal network only VM made to run Home Assistant.
- With 2 threads; 4GiB of RAM; and 32GB of storage

VPS Infrastructure

I run on Galaxy:

A Git Forge as well as a runner
An instance of Cinny (matrix client)
A NextCloud Instance (you can request an account by email)
A LLDAP Instance
A Jitsi Instance
A Tinyauth server
A Whiteboard
A XMPP instance
A Matrix homeserver
A Maloja instance

Then on Daystrom there is the Home Assistant instance of the flat.

Backups

Backups are made each day at T0400 Europe/Paris on a S3-compatible bucket.

For the data to completely disappear it would need an explosion of some sort in Rennes, and a nuke in Europe on the Hetzner glacier.

I thus decided that we were sufficiently secured, of course if a nuke is launched on France, I might very well die, which mean the fact the data is safe is not very important anymore, because I’d be dead. But so is life you know.

Hostnames

My personal laptop is Defiant (because it’s tough, and little)
My personal phone is Danube-II (I replaced my trusty S21 by a S24 FE)
My NAS is Olympic
My baremetal server is StarbaseOne
VPSes are:
- Galaxy
- Daystrom

Plans for the future

Now that I have a good server, I might add another node to the PVE, but future money will go towards getting/constructing a modern NAS. With the following specifications

5 Bays
5x8TB NAS Hard Drive
RAID5
Support for SMB, NFSv4
A good amount of RAM for caching
A SSD for caching too

So I’m not a lesbian

2025-10-13T00:00:00+00:00

If your reaction is “not surprising” know that I’m pouting.

Being a lesbian

Immediately after I came out about my gender I thought I was a lesbian, I was a girl (or close to it anyway) and I always liked girls so easy right I’m a lesbian?

So I lived peacefully my life as a lesbian, I rationalised that fem enbies counted as being a lesbian, the label is just that a label right? There’s no rules.

Then six months after I came out I started looking at boys. Maybe I finally felt comfortable enough in my feminity to look at them as being mysterious.

This too I rationalised as me just wanting to feel feminine and liking boys is a thing most girls so I felt nothing of it.

The bi-cycle

As a moment after my transition I thought I was bi or pan because I started looking at boys with more intensity.

This too, later I rationalised as being comp-het or being the hormones acting up.

Let me tell you I had calls with my best friend who weren’t very lesbian of me.

There’s even a moment in my life, very brief thankfully, where I thought I was straight (homoromantic-heterosexual to be more exact which is an interesting mix).

Well finally what are you

Well, to be honest I spent a lot of time wondering what I was, I rationalised everything as being hormonal or just me wanting to feel feminine and hid myself under the guise of lesbianism to be safe.

Even if it didn’t help me at some times in my life.

My preferences change every 6 months to a year, and I finally accepted that. I also think of girls and guys differently (enbies kind of go everywhere).

With girls I enjoy the sense of longing and quietly loving someone, cuddling, waking up with a girl in my bed smiling at me, these sappy as fuck things because I’m a very sappy person. It’s a very.. well it’s a very poetic stance on loving girls but I like it. At this point in time this never happened, I fell in love once, but it went nowhere.

With guys my thoughts leave the realm of poems quite fast. Which isn’t very ace of me and opened another question - which I did not answer yet.

Everything is very fluid, but I finally accepted that yes, I’m into guys. And I’m also into girls. And I’m also into non binary people.

I don’t think I’m pan, I have a preference on the gender depending on the time of the year. So call me Omni if you want, I settled on demi-biromantic and demisexual. Why demiromantic? Because as much as I’d like to date someone, time and dates taught me I cannot fall in love without a strong platonic relationship being there.

I fell in love once, it wasn’t reciprocal, but bless their heart that was the most adorable rejection of all time. I think they stayed texting with me for one or two hours, and they and I are close friends to this day, I am over it.

I’m looking forward to the future, a future where I accept myself more.

Afterwords

It seemed I wasn’t really… subtle at liking guys. About every friend I came out to were not surprised.

I’m not delusional, I know no one reads this blog, and I’m okay with that, it’s my way of crying into the void. My way of expressing myself with words when everything else fails.

But if in the future when I’m famous you happen to read this blog, well I hope I’m doing well in the future. I hope I have a good girlfriend, voidfriend, or boyfriend (or multiple of them). Maybe I’ll even have a husband, a wife or a spouse. I’ll still work my dream job and teach on the side and I’ll be in my lovely apartment, which is mine.

Btw, my micro-blogging is available on the fediverse @vanilla_extract@woof.tech

Thanks for (not) reading,

Cheers,

Charlotte Thomas.

Tasks, Agendas, and CalDav.

2025-10-04T00:00:00+00:00

Introduction

Hello!

Like many people I have a Nextcloud instance running on my main server (Ambassador). And it stores all my calendars.

You may say all your calendars Charlotte? How many does a girl need? Well at the moment I have three calendars. My main one is of course the default Personal equipped by default for any Nextcloud account. I also have a Work calendar which, you guessed it, stores my work related events that I need to access outside of my employer’s network.

And finally I decided recently to start a private tutoring gig beside my main line of work. I am slowly constructing the website (FR), which will be translated for international use, so I need a Teaching calendar, granted I could have used my Personal agenda but I wanted a clean one.

And I really wanted to have those events in my waybar so I can easily see which is my next task/event, and a list of events by hovering.

State of the art

Like a good developer, I am lazy, and I (correctly) guessed that someone had previously wanted their calendars in their cli, and I could use that to do a custom module for waybar.

It turns out it was even better than that. Someone had created nextmeeting which even arrived with its own waybar config and module.

So great, job done!

…However, at the moment I started this idea nextmeeting only supported Google Calendar through a CLI API Client. It didn’t support CalDav, now it does, thanks to an issue I posted, and if I had been patient I would have used his way a week ago when I did it.

Next, I saw plann which is a CLI CalDav client, so I was happy. After reading the documentation I set out to create a script…

First approach, plann.

The tool

I needed to

configure plann
check for the list of events in the next X days (X was to be determined) and limit to 10
somehow displaying the first event in waybar and the remainder in the tooltip.

I use fish as my daily driver for scripts, the script is probably very easily adaptable to bash, but now for reasons that are yet to come I won’t update the script.

It turned out configuring plann was really easy you just need to write YAML in calendar.conf at the root of your XDG_CONFIG folder. After a bit of a struggle I finally ended up on this configuration for multiple agendas.

default:
  caldav_url: https://cloud.faefox.dev/remote.php/dav/
  caldav_user: user
  caldav_pass: password
  calendar_url:
    - personal
    - teaching

After that I just had to use plann, some examples of commands include,

plann select list

To list every event in your calendars (even past one)

plann select --from $(date) list

To list every event from the current date and time.

The Script

I wanted a script which listed the next ten events from the next 30 days, and returned a json string with the text from the first event, and the remainder in tooltip.

So I started experimenting with plann. The list of tasks is fairly easy after a bit of practice with this command

set list_of_tasks $(plann select --from $(date) --end $(date -d "+30 days") list | string collect)

As you see in this command we are selecting everything in the next 30 days (thanks to date and its easy parsing it’s easily done) and we use the fish directive string collect to collect them into a big string.

With some manipulations we can obtain the first task

set task $(echo "$list_of_tasks" | head -n 1 | xargs)

Here we use xargs to trim the string, according to the ~~bible~~ Stack Overflow, this is the easiest method to trim a string in shell.

Then we can get the first 10 with this command

set list $(echo "$list_of_tasks" | head -n 10)

And job done!

…Almost

If we run this command we end up with a nightmare string which is impossible to parse, and can’t be easily put into lines. Thankfully we have the fish directive string join which allows us to add a simple newline character to every line.

Thus the end script looks like this

$ cat nexttask
#!/usr/bin/fish
set list_of_tasks $(plann select --from $(date) --end $(date -d "+30 days") list | string collect)
set task $(echo "$list_of_tasks" | head -n 1 | xargs)
set list $(echo "$list_of_tasks" | head -n 10 | string join \\n )
echo "{\"text\":\"$task\",\"tooltip\":\"$list\"}"

The Waybar module.

Great! We have a json string ready for Waybar.

Writing a custom waybar module isn’t hard, and it’s not the focus of this article so please refer to the wiki for any information.

The module looked like this

 "custom/tasks": {
    "format": "{}",
    "interval": 100,
    "exec": "/usr/bin/nexttask",
    "on-click": "alacritty --class floating -e fish -i -c calcure",
    "return-type": "json",
    "class": "tasks"
  },

Calcure is a great tool, but not the topic of this article, perhaps I will make an article on this topic one day. If we test it we end up with this

Which is… okay I guess? If you’re a real fan of ISO date it’s cool. I like ISO date, it’s my main date format, but it’s not very user friendly.

Come nextmeeting

It turns out in the days which came after my issue to nextmeeting the author implemented CalDav in his CLI. Which is great, but was a nightmare to configure.

If you’re reading that at a later date, the bug is likely fixed, but as of 2025-10-04 T2000+0200 the author mixed caldav-* and caldav_* in the code meaning we need to configure nextmeeting with the latter, contrary to the README. I’m sure the author will quickly fix this little bug.

[nextmeeting]
caldav_url = "https://cloud.faefox.dev/remote.php/dav/calendars/charlotte/personal"
caldav_username = "charlotte"
caldav_password = "password"
caldav_lookahead_hours = 720
caldav_calendar="personal"

And now we know the biggest downside to this approach, it only is possible to sync one calendar at a time. I opened an issue to ask for multiple calendars support. I’ll update you when that evolves.

But now we can just use nextmeeting as if we were using a Google Calendar, the documentation is good. The results speak for themselves in term of user friendly-ness

Afterwords

Thank you for reading this (really) nerdy post on CalDav synchronisation and status bars.

I will profit from this new article to announce that I moved everything writing related to a new domain, analgesia.icu, why? Mostly because (Painkillers) (Dot) (Intensive Care Unit) was too much fun to pass.

See you next time,

Cheers,

Charlotte.

New home for Poupette

2025-09-10T00:00:00+00:00

Poupette

Poupette (in french pronounced like Poo-Pet) is a one and a half year old (neutered) female cat.

She got into my care after her previous human couldn’t afford two cats anymore. She’s (very) shy but have been warming up to me a lot these past two days. I’m happy to be her new human and will take great care of her. At day she hides under the bed or behind the desk, but at night (or evening) she comes alive and explores my little room, we decided to isolate her for the moment. We’ll introduce her to the apartment (and the other cats) later.

She is very cute, and likes to demand cuddles at 4am, which I’m more than happy to provide.

Photos

Can’t talk about a cat on the internet without providing photo can I? Well enjoy

Products

I use la toilette des chats’s branded non invasive safe litter robot for her (and the other cats who like it too!), her litter is from a French startup named Pacha, it’s silicate crystals and it supposedly have a lot of benefits. I use a generic gravity feeder to deliver her meal six times a day, we have a water fountain out of the room but I’m using a wide bowl while she accommodates to the apartment.

Her food is vet prescribed, it’s from Hill’s.

She likes a lot of toys, generic scratcher, my ergonomic chair (at my own displeasure), balls, stuffed animals.

Services

2025-07-11T00:00:00+00:00

This is an update to my services article I posted a few months ago.

VPS Infrastructure

I have a bigger infrastructure nowadays, it is hosted on mercurycloud which is a small French cloud provider.

I have multiple servers on mercurycloud.

Ambassador (8vCPU, 16GB of RAM), named after the Ambassador-class starships in Star Trek (all my hostnames are Star Trek starship classes).

I have another server on Hetzner, it is only used for its sheer reliance to be online 24/7.

Miranda (2vCPU (shared), 4GB of RAM)

Ambassador is hosted in Rennes, France. Yellowstone and Nova have been discontinued, and are replaced by a S3 bucket on Hetzner (and nothing for Nova).

Miranda is hosted on the Hetzner datacentre in Helsinki, Finland.

I run on Ambassador:

A Git Forge as well as a runner
An instance of Cinny (matrix client)
A NextCloud Instance (you can request an account by email)
My Tutoring Website

And finally on Miranda:

A conduwuit (matrix server) instance (faefox.dev)
A service status page

Backups

Backups are made each day at T0400+0200 on a S3-compatible bucket, hosted somewhere in Europe, but not in France, thus the data I put there is quadruple safe, first, it is on my personal computer. Second it is on Ambassador on nextcloud. Third it is in the backups of my VPS provider, which puts their data in a glacier somewhere in France. And fourth it is on the glacier of the S3-compatible bucket. So for the data to disappear it would need an explosion of some sort in Rennes, a nuke in France, and a nuke in Europe on the second glacier.

And oh yes, it is also on my NAS, which will soon have a backup. I’m not paranoid about data retention ;).

CloudFare Page

I use CloudFare Page to run a few static websites.

Migadu

I use Migadu as my email provider. I use the micro yearly plan, for only $20 USD a year I have everything I need. I have emails under the following domains.

charlotte-thomas.me
- me
- gc
faefox.dev
- me
tutorat.me
- charlotte

NAS

I have a NAS (2TB on RAID1) running on my local network. Its name is Olympic (because it is old, big, and vulnerable)

I have twice daily backups using restic on it.

Hostnames

My personal laptop is Defiant (because it’s tough, and little)
My work laptop is Galaxy (because it’s big)
My personal phone is Danube (because it’s small)
My NAS is Olympic
VPSes are:
- Ambassador
- Miranda

Plans for the future

In the future, when I have my own home, with my own Network (because I am moving to a place where I don’t control it for the moment). My plan is to run a Server/NAS where I can store my data and expose it to the web to run my applications and everything I need

In the plans there is:

Everything I run on my VPSes (or maybe I’ll keep the VPS, still unknown.)
A NAS (maybe with TrueNAS?)
A Plex/Jellyfish Server
An OpenStack instance (to do ansible and terraform on) (maybe not in hindsight)
And everything that strike my fancy

The budget will be around €2,000 to build it, and the minimum spec I want are:

CPU: 8C/16T, reasonably recent
GPU: An Intel ARC for transcoding
RAM: 64GB
Storage:
- 8TB in RAID5 with HDD
- 512GB in RAID1 on NVMe
PSU:
- Gold Rated Unit
- An UPS
Silent Fans.
LAN: 2.5 Gbit/s

I don’t know if I want to run it on a rack or not. I think not.

Everything is very subject to changes. It’s the early version of what I’m thinking. I may scrap it and run it from an old motherboard because I would have updated my Framework. Maybe. So it can change it’s just what I’m feeling at the moment.

It won’t exists for another year and a half (or more); but it will probably be under some subdomains of charlotte-thomas.me and/or faefox.dev. Probably more faefox.dev as we can all agree, it is the funnier one.

EDIT: Add miranda in the servers, 2025-07-28.
EDIT: Remove yellowstone from the servers, 2025-07-29.
EDIT: Moved status page to miranda, 2025-07-30.
EDIT: Added backup on S3 bucket, 2025-07-31.
EDIT: Remove Nova, 2025-10-03.

Work, Life.

2025-05-19T00:00:00+00:00

Work

This is it, after 8 months of ‘initial training’ I’m starting work for real. I’m taking off the training wheels and diving into the adults’ pool.

This will impact my project.

What have you been up to

Well, a lot of things.

If you look at my GitHub activity you will see I was busy this past four weeks.

I have been developing my latest project, if you haven’t seen it it’s normal it’s in private on GitHub. It’s an agenda in the cloud called SharedAgenda.

It’s in public on my own forge it was intended to be my end-of initial training project but it grew a lot.

The API is live at https://api.sharedagenda.faefox.dev and I’m hard at work on the TUI. There is a CLI as a client and I may do a Web UI one day.

What about writing

Go check my writing blog to see!

DIY Android Auto Infotainment Screen

2025-04-19T00:00:00+00:00

Goal and motivation

My father had two old netbooks with barely enough RAM and storage to be useful (and which could absolutely not run modern Window.)

We thought about upcycling them, install a modern linux distribution, and giving them to someone who could use a small and not very powerful computer.

But then we had another idea, see, my parents have two cars:

A beautiful 2020 Hybrid Toyota Corolla Break in a colour my parents insist is ebene which is a woody dark brown; ~~don’t tell them but it looks black from afar~~. With a decent Android Auto experience, and overall is a pleasure to ride, I am sure it is a pleasure to drive too, but I don’t drive and even if I did I am not sure my dad would trust me with this car.
An old red Fiat Panda. Which to be fair is fairly fun when the person who is driving it has confidence in their skills.

Well, the Corolla is mostly used by my mum, for reasons she prefers the automatic transmission (we live in France, most of our cars are still using manual transmissions).

The Panda does not have any infotainment – being old and all – and my dad sometimes uses it to go pick mushrooms (a important hobby of his, he blogs his mushroom adventures on his mastodon profile (in french) – as well as saying a “good morning” every morning.)

So a thought came to us in a discussion on a morning.

Why not turn one of the computers into an infotainment system for the Panda?

Ingredients

For this recipe you will need:

Any old netbook (here is an old laptop with an 11“ screen, 2 GB of RAM, and 32 GB of RAM, an Asus X205TA)
A compatible touch-screen for the laptop (this one on ebay)
A way of drawing power from the car to the laptop

Photos

Laptop

Power

Step 1: OS

We obviously decided to install a linux distro on the netbook.

First, the computer was running a really old version of Window – 8.1 if I remember correctly – and of course with its 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of eMMC it wasn’t going to run Window 10, or worse Windows 11.

After some considerations, particularly about the bluetooth/wifi card, we decided to wing it and install Debian 12 vanilla on it.

–

And it worked like a charm!

Except for the Wifi

Fortunately we found a tutorial for this particular machine, the Asus X205TA, and sure enough we were successful in making wifi work.

Now we needed to modify the hardware!

Step 2: Hardware modifications

Hardware was exclusively done by my dad, I am not at all good with hardware. I know how to build a server/computer. And that’s it.

So I’ll not go into details here.

Fortunately this step is actually pretty easy you only need to perform a couple steps

Remove the closing-detection magnet.
Install the touchscreen.

Computer Disassembled

This is the computer fully disassembled. The keyboard is off-screen.

Keyboard cable

This is what the keyboard ribbon cable looks like. We decided to keep the keyboard connected, just completely folded.

Computer folded

The computer is then folded to look like a Tablet.

Step 3: Necessary Softwares

This is the part where I am the most capable in, and the part where I really helped.

We started to scoure the World Wide Web to find something to be a good infotainment system.

AGL: Automotive Grade Linux.

The first thing which came up in my research was Automotive Grade Linux (AGL). This is a bunch of softwares which build a custom kernel and one can use the library to create an interface.

To test it, I compiled the “sample”. And launched it in QEMU.

It was both cool and underwhelming. The base interface made it really clear that using this library to construct a fully custom interface was definitely not a one-day thing. More like a months long adventure in multiple programming language from C to Python and promised a lot of recompiling kernels.

Which even with my decent laptop, would be long, very long.

So even if it looked good I decided to give up on it.

Source: Automative Grade Linux Documentation

Android Auto.

While my dad was thinking and still searching on the web I decided to search for something very particular.

Surely, someone, somewhere, would have managed to run Android Auto on a good old x86_64 computer right?

It turns out that yes someone did. And that someone, is Google itself.

So the last link open to the “Test” page. It was originally made to test Android Auto applications in the development/integration phase.

But it turns out you can just connect it to a phone and using it like regular old android auto. It works just like the real thing. Just need a couple adb commands as well as a manipulation on the phone.

Get the Android Auto Desktop Head Unit.

There is only one way to get the Android Auto Desktop Head Unit, you need to download the whole Android SDK, through Android Studio. And then you need to pick to download the Desktop Head Unit (DHU).

Once you do that, you get the DHU binary and one shared library in the following path:

$SDK_LOCATION/extras/google/auto/

You need both the

desktop_head_unit

Binary, as well as the

libusb.so

Shared library.

Run and connect the DHU to a Phone

You need to prepare the phone you’re connecting to.

First, you need to activate the Android’s Developer Settings on your phone.
Then, you need to install Android Auto if it’s not already installed.
Finally, you need to activate the Android Auto’s Developer Settings on the app.

If you follow all the steps from the Google Developer page you will have everything you need to start the DHU.

Connect your phone via USB and just run

./desktop_head_unit --usb

And… it didn’t work for us. We tried multiple phones but it didn’t work.

We needed to follow the rest of the page.

You need to start the Head Unit Server on your phone
And you need to run a few commands on the computer host.

adb forward tcp:5277 tcp:5277

./desktop_head_unit

Then you connect your phone on USB to the Computer.

And ~~ Voilà ~~

It works! You have a fully functional Android Auto experience on a laptop.

Extras

Technically you could stop there. But it wouldn’t work very well.

We performed a few more steps in order to improve the experience.

First, we modified the authentificator to auto-log.
Then, we modified the Xorg start script to automatically forward the ports, and launch the DHU.
Finally, we made a MACRO on my dad’s phone, to automatically start the Head Unit Server

Enjoy

End of the build

The build at the end of the steps, the keyboard is folded behind the screen.

Installation

This is what it looks installed inside of our Panda.

It looks like that installed and online aboard the vehicle, ain’t it cute?

BR# DevLog 0: Announcing BaguetteSharp… Oxidised

2025-03-30T00:00:00+00:00

BaguetteWhat?

Baguette# or BaguetteSharp or Baguette, is my joke programming language I made for the kicks, for the joke, for my TIPE, everything.

I liked it but the OCaml code is horrible. The Lexer and Parser are easy enough to understand, but the code of the interpreter is absolutely unreadable.

There is many reasons of why this code is so unreadable. First, I coded this interpreter under IV morphine at the hospital. Which is not a very good moment to code something. Like not at all. Second, I was pretty new at the whole interpreting stuff.

Rust Edition

Yes oxidised like rust like Rust as in the language I know I’m really funny.

It’s not just a stylistic project as well, it’s important to properly implement LLVM to make a functional compiler from a strong codebase instead of bodged one.

It will also allow me to make a LSP implementation.

Where can we follow

There is three git repos:

Closing words

See you next DevLog entry :)

Services

2025-03-24T00:00:00+00:00

Ambassador

I have a few services on my Hetzner VPS/Cloud, its hostname is ambassador after the Ambassador-class starships in Star Trek (all my hostnames are Star Trek starship classes).

I run on this server:

A Git Forge as well as a runner
A conduwuit (matrix server) instance (faefox.dev)
An instance of Cinny (matrix client)
A service status page

CloudFare Page

I use CloudFare Page to run a few static websites.

Migadu

I use Migadu as my email provider. I use the micro yearly plan, for only $20 USD a year I have everything I need. I have emails under the following domains.

charlotte-thomas.me
- me
- gc
faefox.dev
- me
nwa2coco.fr (to be deleted on May 2025)
- charlotte

NAS

I have a NAS (2TB on RAID1) running on my local network. Its name is Olympic (because it is old, big, and vulnerable)

I have twice daily backups using restic on it.

Hostnames

My personal laptop is Defiant (because it’s tough, and little)
My work laptop is Galaxy (because it’s big)
My personal phone is Danube (because it’s small)
My NAS is Olympic
My VPS is Ambassador

Plans for the future

In the future, when I have my own home, with my own Network (because I am moving to a place where I don’t control it for the moment), my plan is to run a Server/NAS where I can store my data and expose it to the web to run my applications and everything I need

In the plans there is:

Everything I run on my VPS
A NAS (maybe with TrueNAS?)
A NextCloud
A web equivalent to Google Docs/Google Sheets
A Plex Server
An OpenStack instance (to do ansible and terraform on)
And everything that strike my fancy

The budget will be around €1,500 to build it, and the minimum spec I want are:

CPU: 8C/16T, reasonably recent
GPU: An Intel ARC for transcoding
RAM: 64GB
- 32GB for the NAS
- 32GB for the VMs
Storage:
- 8TB in RAID5 with HDD
- 512GB in RAID1 on NVMe
PSU:
- Gold Rated Unit
- An UPS
Silent Fans.
LAN: 2.5 Gbit/s

I don’t know if I want to run it on a rack or not. I think not.

It won’t exists for another year and a half (or more); but it will probably be under some subdomains of charlotte-thomas.me and/or faefox.dev