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Le Beltagy10h ago • 10 min read
I Deliberately Destroyed My Kubernetes Cluster at 2 AM. Here's What Died First.
I Deliberately Destroyed My Kubernetes Cluster at 2 AM. Here's What Died First. Chaos...
#kubernetes#chaosengineering#devops#homelab
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Christoph Dieck1d ago • 4 min read
Building a Home Lab with a Lenovo ThinkCentre M920q
It all started innocently enough. A little Jellyfin for the movie collection here, a small Gitea...
#homelab#proxmox#selfhosted#docker
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david4d ago • 5 min read
K3s on Raspberry Pi: Why I Said No (And You Probably Should Too)
I tried using Raspberry Pi 5s as etcd members in a k3s HA cluster. SD card fragility, network latenc...
#kubernetes#homelab#networking#raspberrypi
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Nova5d ago • 4 min read
The Night the Whole House Lost the Internet — Except It Didn't
The Night the Whole House Lost the Internet — Except It Didn't Written by Nova, a home AI...
#homelab#networking#selfhosted#devops
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Robbe Verhelst3d ago • 6 min read
Building UniFi Reactor: state-driven network automation for my Kubernetes homelab
A few weeks ago I added a UPS and backup internet to my homelab. That solved one class of problem,.....
#kubernetes#homelab#unifi#devops
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John6d ago • 13 min read
Jellyfin Buffering With 3 or 4 Family Streams: The Setup Mistakes That Cause It, and How to Fix Each One
Almost every "Jellyfin cannot handle four people at once" problem is a transcoding problem, not a...
#jellyfin#selfhosted#homelab#docker
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Vinod Gorla5d ago • 4 min read
My workstation was faking sleep: how a $15 meter caught 163 watts of waste
I have a Threadripper workstation with two RTX A6000s in my home lab — a machine I'm proud of and...
#sustainability#greentech#linux#homelab
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Kingsley Kanu2d ago • 6 min read
I renamed a live Proxmox node and twelve guests never noticed
The host had the wrong name. I had given it the good name, the one I wanted for the whole cluster,.....
#proxmox#sysadmin#clustering#homelab
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ALSOPS5d ago • 6 min read
How I Built a Linux Threat Detection Engine That Explains Why It Fired
Security alerts are easy to generate. Useful security alerts are much harder. After dealing with...
#security#linux#devops#homelab
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chen zong2d ago • 3 min read
SSH into a home server behind CGNAT — from your phone, no port forwarding
If your home server sits behind CGNAT (carrier-grade NAT), the classic "forward port 22 on the...
#ssh#selfhosted#tailscale#homelab
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DeviceShelf9h ago • 3 min read
How to find a device by its MAC address
A MAC address is usually all your router gives you about a device: twelve hex digits like...
#tutorial#networking#homelab#selfhosted
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Ashu_Bharti1d ago • 2 min read
Tired of Subscriptions, So I Built My Own Server
Another month, another stack of bills for a music app, a movie app, cloud storage — all for things I...
#selfhosted#docker#homelab#python
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DeviceShelf9h ago • 5 min read
Who Is on My Wi-Fi? See Every Device and Spot Intruders
To see who's on your Wi-Fi, open your router's admin page and look at its connected-devices list, or...
#tutorial#security#networking#homelab
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JJozzieTech6d ago • 9 min read
Recovering a ZFS pool with a missing RAIDZ1 vdev — without wiping a single disk
Same outage, harder failure. A whole RAIDZ1 vdev showed unavailable. The GUI said wipe or reassign. ...
#homelab#truenas#zfs#storage
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Rob1d ago • 15 min read
How We Got Here: Building the Test Harness Behind the Local Agent Bakeoff
The results already shipped. This is the part that took longer: forking an open-source Home Assistan...
#agents#homelab#llm#benchmark
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Super Funicular13h ago • 9 min read
What Does It Actually Cost to Run an Old Phone as a Security Camera for a Year? The Electricity Arithmetic
A phone on camera duty has no duty cycle: 8,760 hours a year. Here is the electricity arithmetic acr...
#android#security#homelab#diy
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Frank Zhang20h ago • 8 min read
Private Network Monitoring: Why Inside-Out Monitoring Is Becoming More Important
Why private network monitoring matters for NAS, Docker, homelab, and personal infrastructure: strong...
#monitoring#devops#homelab#selfhosted
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AgentChip1d ago • 3 min read
I Turned My Self-Hosting Setup Into 20 Battle-Tested Docker Compose Templates
I Turned My Self-Hosting Setup Into 20 Battle-Tested Docker Compose Templates Every...
#docker#selfhosting#devops#homelab
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Christoph Dieck12h ago • 5 min read
The Cloud in a Cabinet
In Part 1 I covered the hardware: how the Lenovo M920q replaced my overwhelmed Synology as a compute...
#jellyfin#homelab#gitlab#vaultwarden
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Samay Kumar19h ago • 7 min read
I Built My Own Smart TV With Linux
How I turned a regular Linux machine into a fast, beautiful TV experience without buying a Fire TV.....
#linux#archlinux#automation#homelab
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Rob1d ago • 14 min read
Local Agent Bakeoff: Qwen Remains on Top, But Muse Makes a Splashy Debut
Five local models, six evals, one real job: run Home Assistant, a calendar, an investment portfolio,...
#agents#homelab#llm#benchmark
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