More random home lab things I've recently learned
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More random home lab things I've recently learned
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#2I went in thinking that maybe there's something to learn for my grand total of 1 ThinkCentre M910q "homelab", but this author's setup is on another league, I'm sure closer (or surpassing) the needs of a small/medium company!
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#3I second the shout out for Mealie, it's very useful. Importing from URLs works very well, and it gives you a centralised place for all your recipes, without ads or filler content and safe from linkrot.
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#4My most recent learning - DDR4 ECC UDIMMs are comically expensive. To the point where I considered just replacing the entire platform with something RDIMM rather than swapping to ECC sticks.
>No space left on device.
>In other words, you can lock yourself out of PBS. That’s… a design.
Run PBS in LXC with the base on a zfs dataset with dedup & compression turned off. If it bombs you can increase disk size in proxmox & reboot it. Unlike VMs you don't need to do anything inside the container to resize FS so this generally works as fix.
>PiHole
AGH is worth considering because it has built in DoH
>Raspberry Pi 5, ARM64 Proxmox
Interesting. I'm leaning more towards k8s for integrating pis meaningfully
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#5One of my favorite CyberPower perks is their RMCARDs for network monitoring: It's a separate module that works in basically all of their rackmount UPSes. You can replace the entire UPS without having to pay for the little mini web server again, it'll just pop right into the new unit.
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#6My most recent learning - DDR4 ECC UDIMMs are comically expensive. To the point where I considered just replacing the entire platform with something RDIMM rather than swapping to ECC sticks. >No space left on device. >In other words, you can lock yourself out of PBS. That’s… a design. Run PBS in LXC with the base on a zfs dataset with dedup & compression turned off. If it bombs you can increase disk size in proxmox &…
>AGH is worth considering because it has built in DoH
Technitium has all the bells and whistles along with being cross platform.
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#7My most recent learning - DDR4 ECC UDIMMs are comically expensive. To the point where I considered just replacing the entire platform with something RDIMM rather than swapping to ECC sticks. >No space left on device. >In other words, you can lock yourself out of PBS. That’s… a design. Run PBS in LXC with the base on a zfs dataset with dedup & compression turned off. If it bombs you can increase disk size in proxmox &…
> My most recent learning - DDR4 ECC UDIMMs are comically expensive. To the point where I considered just replacing the entire platform with something RDIMM rather than swapping to ECC sticks.
DDR4 anything is becoming very expensive right now because manufacturers have been switching over to DDR5.
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#8I went in thinking that maybe there's something to learn for my grand total of 1 ThinkCentre M910q "homelab", but this author's setup is on another league, I'm sure closer (or surpassing) the needs of a small/medium company!
It’s another league, but I don’t get the point of mixing enterprise rack-mounts with Raspberry Pis.
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#9I've recently learned that "homelab" is a specific thing meaning you run certain software (like Proxmox), and not a generic term for running a 'server lab' at home.
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#10I just learned about the whole homelab thing a week ago; it's a much deeper rabbit hole than I expected. I'm planning to setup ProxMox today for the first time in fact and retire my Ubuntu Server setup running on a NUC that's been serving me well for last couple years.
I hadn't heard about mealie yet, but sounds like a great one to install.