I’m doing basically all the things you’ve just listed using a Dell Precision Tower 3620 you don’t necessarily need new hardware for it and could save quite a lot if there are used workstations in your area.

For software I’m using esxi with truenas core virtualized and photonos as my docker host with everything managed through portainer. I would not suggest using esxi unless you want to learn about it, I wish I’d gone with Proxmox at the start.

Oh good shout! Thank you!

Silly things like r/nononoyes or r/musicaljenga

I’ve only played and run D&D 5e. I did get the Pathfinder 2e humble bundle so might play that at some point. My party also owns two copies of the Call of Cthulu starter set which I would love to get around to one Halloween.

For small stuff we’ve played Honey Heist which was a huge amount of fun!

Yeah, there’d be nothing stopping other places having a Pi community but it makes more sense for a dedicated technology instance to run the main Pi community rather than having a dozen little ones.

You could go even more niche and have a raspberry pi instance and then have Pi3, Pi4, Zero, software, hats communities within that.

Definitely think that content specific instances with more niche communities within them is the way forward. There’s no reason for lemmy.ml to have a raspberry pi community if computers.social has a raspberry pi community.

Yeah mines local/active too, not sure what it defaults to when I load the app, I only noticed my account was active today