Lowest barrier of entry would be to run a coder model (e.g. Qwen2.5-Coder-32B) on Ollama and interface with it via OpenCode. YMMV when it comes to which specific model will meet your needs and work best with your hardware, but Ollama makes it easy to bounce around and experiment.

Yeah they’re fine. TechMikeNY usually has better deals though, at least in my experience. Have bought from them several times both for work and homelab, no complaints.

+1 to CachyOS recommendation. Been daily driving on my RTX 4080 gaming rig for almost 2 years, no complaints.

Pretty sure you could run Pulp in pull-through mode and add your local Forgejo/whatever registry as a remote, which would at least give you a unified “pull” URL. Then just use Forgejo actions to handle the actual build/publish for your local images whenever you push to main (or tag a release, or whatever).

Pulp might actually be able to handle both on its own, I haven’t ever tried though.

I’d recommend setting your sights on the 3-2-1 rule. 3 copies of your data, 2 different mediums, 1 off-site. Hetzner Storage Box is a good cheap offsite option.

Yeah serverpartdeals is legit. Between work and home, I think I’ve tested & deployed 150+ drives from them over the last 3yrs. No duds, no failures, no complaints. Great customer service on the corp side for big orders, too. 10/10 would recommend.

Move over, bud. That’s my hill to die on, too.