Medical device engineer here (mechanical engineering). I host jellyfin, game servers (Minecraft, factorio, valheim, etc), my website, and a bunch of other minor services I find useful.

I got into it originally through a combination of poor internet, and being fed up with Google and others discontinuing products/features. The internet problem is solved now, so my only goal is not being reliant on someone else’s cloud.

Man, I feel spoiled after reading some of the stories on here, but for me, Solidworks. After being trained on Creo, moving to Solidworks is like Fisher-Price CAD.

Many things I’d gotten used to having a dedicated, robust tool for become having to trick the program into doing what you want it to do. The biggest offender is the drawings package - I swear this has not left the 90s in terms of UX design.

Thank you, I will look into this!

I have Foundry through Docker, but that’s pretty much the extent of the self host. Everything else comes through D&D Beyond. I’d love to get away from wizards, but it’s pretty damn slick.