An individual operator describes running photos, media, household finances and home automation on an N100 mini PC with 16 GB of RAM and a 512 GB SSD. Simple services run natively and complex ones through Podman; a VPN replaces public exposure, while Restic and Backrest handle backups. Reduced video resolution and fewer dependencies conserve resources, and the setup is not an example of local AI inference. Linked Quadlet documentation specifies systemd integration and cgroup v2 requirements. A remaining limitation is that the IPv6 VPN does not work on some public Wi-Fi networks.