homelab and self hosting arent always “exactly” the sane thing. lab implies testing and experimentation. its purpose is to learn. but i think you are really asking about self hosing so… first, ypu seemed to focus on media streaming in your post. to adress tgat one point, i have an entire family watching on phones and tvs (mostly tvs). i have jellyseer setup so they can even request. BUT… that’s only one part. i have a minipc running opnsense. i have another on running proxmox. on that proxmox, jellyfin, with radarr, sonarr, jellyseer, and gluetun home assisstant os unifi os to manage my network. soon i sm adding unifi cameras with protect so i can get off blink. an app called glanceapp which is a feed dashboard (not the monitor app glance) github.com/glanceapp/glance next cloud to replace m365 or google netbird to von in i also have a ugreen box running truenas today on this community, i learned about searxng , which i will setup very soon