i moved away from irccloud to a bouncer (soju) running on my home server, now my logs are at home again instead of in a third-party service
home server: prototype itx carrier board + prototype loongson 3a6000 SoC COM module, very hackish coreboot + edk2 boot firmware, 64gb ddr4 sodimm, 2tb samsung nvme, fanless
total measured power consumption under max load: 11 watts