u/SleepyJaguar

Out of curiosity, how many of us in Pakistan have a home-lab?

I have a repurposed dell optiplex running Truenas Scale which is my file storage for backups, game server files, and movie archives. Paired with Jellyfin to have a DIY-Netflix and running Tailscale VPN to access it from the outside.

In the past, I’ve also used it to host a Minecraft and a Rust server for my friends. My PC and the server are both plugged into a UPS for redundancy.

I had solar-assistant running on a Pi 4B connected to my solar inverter and I managed it using home-assistant running on my server. I have ESP32s idling around that I want to experiment with as nightlights using ESP-Home on home-assistant.

Do you have a server? And what do you use it for?

24M from BTL

I graduated from university last year. I don’t have anyone that I can call a “best” friend. My ex that I met during university turned out to be a psycho. I don’t have a job (looking to go abroad for my master’s). I just have no way of meeting new people. Anyone that I do meet treats me like a second priority, or doesn’t share my interests, it feels like a one-sided effort where I am only needed when I am useful.

I always end up alone. Everyone has their best friend since school or college or university and then there’s me who’s got no one. Please tell me I’m not the only one.

The funny thing is I don’t even think I look half bad or that my personality or interests aren’t interesting. I know like-minded people exist here in Pakistan, heck even in Lahore. But I have absolutely no idea where to meet them.

Maybe when I ask for exclusivity, I am asking for too much. Maybe I should be content with just having “friends” and stop looking for ride-or-die homies.

Sorry if my thoughts seem disjointed. I am a mess right now. What would you do in my situation? How do you meet new people?