Oliver Didriksen-Kolstad

I am a 18 year old Norwegian student, aspiring to get a degree in computer science. I love to work with computers and technology in general, and have been lucky to have had access to the knowledge and resources to pursue this passion from a young age.
I work run a expansive homelab with everthing from a personal email server to this website.

About me

As mentioned in the landing section, I am a Norwegian student, aspiring to become engineer. I originate from a city name Steinkjer, but currently live in Trondheim where i study at NTNU.
My primary hobbies are programming, computer hardware and creating circuts with microcontrollers.

About my homelab and me as a developer

My go to programming languages are Python, Javascript/Typescript and Go,
but i have also used C/C++ for embedded systems, Java and C#.
I am a loyal Svelte user but also dable in React/NextJS and Vue.
I use only use linux on my personal machines even for gaming.
My homelab is a mixture of comuters running Proxmox, Ubuntu server and NixOS.
I have little experience with cloud providers but run my own services on docker

Here is a list of some of the homelab services i run

  • Nextcloud
  • Immich
  • Home Assistant
  • Pi-hole
  • Gitea
  • Headscale
  • OpenWebUI
  • Pelican

Hardware

Gaming rig

  • OS: Arch linux
  • CPU: Intel Core i5-10600
  • GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB
  • RAM: 32GB DDR4 3200MHz
  • Storage: 1TB NVMe SSD + 1TB SATA HDD

Daily driver laptop

  • OS: Arch Linux
  • Model: ASUS ROG Strix
  • CPU: i5-8300H
  • RAM: 16GB DDR4 2777MHz
  • Storage: 238.5GB NVMe SSD + 1 TB HDD

Primary "server"

  • OS: Proxmox PV 8.4 (as of 2. Jan 2026)
  • CPU: Intel Core i5-11400F
  • GPU: NVIDIA RTX 2070 8GB
  • RAM: 64GB DDR4 3200MHz
  • Storage: 1TB NVMe SSD
  • Storage: 1TB SATA HDD
  • Storage: 2x 4TB SATA HDD

Secondary "server"

  • OS: Proxmox PV 8.4 (as of 2. Jan 2026)
  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 4600G mby dnt rembr
  • GPU: NVIDIA RTX 1070 8GB
  • RAM: 32GB DDR4 3200MHz
  • Storage: 1TB NVMe SSD
  • Storage: 512GB SATA HDD or SSD

Tertiary "server"

  • OS: Proxmox PV 8.4 (as of 2. Jan 2026)
  • CPU: Intel Core i5-7400
  • GPU: NVIDIA RTX 1060 3GB
  • RAM: 16GB DDR4 3200MHz
  • Storage: 1TB NVMe SSD
  • Storage: 512GB SATA HDD or SSD

Cluster

  • OS: NixOS
  • No. of nodes: 3
  • CPU: Variying x86 cpu's
  • GPU: one of them has one
  • RAM: 8GB DDR4-DDR3