What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab | Bosscher
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A $10 OpenStick single-board computer with 512 MB of RAM, four 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A53 cores, 4 GB of eMMC storage, Wi-Fi, and a 4G modem/GPS is being used as a silent, low-power Debian homelab server running Podman containers. The author runs CastSponsorSkip to mute sponsor segments on Google Cast devices, a custom AdGuard Home fork that blocks roughly 60% of DNS queries after loading blocklists, and Zeroclaw, an AI agent harness supporting 30 messaging channels that idles at about 3 MB of RSS. Zeroclaw is positioned as a lighter alternative to OpenClaw, which consumed over 1 GB of memory and broke on updates. The setup illustrates that hobbyist self-hosting and DNS-level ad blocking are viable on sub-$10 hardware. Next up: the author is contributing rich Telegram message support to Zeroclaw's upcoming release.
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OpenStick, AdGuard Home, CastSponsorSkip, Debian, Podman