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"description": "Replaced Aternos with a self-hosted server on the M2 Mac Mini — no more queues, full control, direct access.",
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"textContent": "minecraft self-hosting\n\nReplaced Aternos free hosting with a self-hosted Minecraft server on the M2 Mac Mini. Aternos's 10-minute startup queues, sluggishness, and general unreliability became intolerable. The Mac Mini was already the daily driver — running a Minecraft server alongside it was straightforward. Full control over server properties, no queues, no reliance on a third-party platform. This later fed into the NixOS Minecraft server configuration.",
"title": "Self-Hosted Minecraft Server"
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