Agreed. Set up tailscale (or wireguard + DDNS) and a pi.hole for ad blocking on your phone and laptop whenever you’re away from home.

That’ll let you shake out the issues with running a home server. Once it feels stable and you have a feel for running things reliably, you can try out a home music/media server with Jellyfin, an RSS reader like freshRSS, run your own private file server with NextCloud, sync private notes with Syncthing and Obsidian, watch TV shows and movies on Kodi, and so much more.

But don’t get carried away with a million services at first. Just getting a home server up and running takes some trial and error and luck!