Can home assistant be used without the ad-ons (I want to learn some smart home stuff, but do not want the overhead of a vm)

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Hi I am prymu and I am a reddit referee. I am from poland and am interested in geopolitics and technology of all sorts. Lately I have found myself to be a server admin for my own “homelab” (it is just 1 server for now). I also am interested is aviation and ai art (stable diffusion)