My Gaming Rig Doubles as a Homelab and Serves Internet Traffic (Part 1: Meet Podman and Tailnet)

I didn't set out to build a homelab. I just wanted to self-host my photos and Immich made this choice more compelling. The thing is, Immich needs a GPU for face recognition and renting cloud GPU felt wasteful. Oh look, I already have a machine with a GPU (RTX 3070Ti with 8GB VRAM) sitting on my desk: a gaming rig running Bazzite . It plays my Steam library, and now it serves a homelab. Along the…