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Minor Cleanup
I took the liberty of transferring some roles between VMs and have ended up with a slightly more streamlined homelab. Now that the 8GB Pi 4B is serving as the primary Pi-Hole instance I was able to get rid of one of the LXC containers. I’ve also managed to get rid of the Gitlab server,…
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The Rest of Them
There are computers all over my house. Most of my time is spent between my laptop and desktop; however, there’s also an assortment of Raspberry Pis and Intel NUCs. Since my last post I’ve reimaged a Raspberry Pi 4B with 8GB of RAM with the 64-bit version of Raspberry Pi OS Lite and installed Pi-Hole…
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The Lab – VMs
No homelab running Proxmox is complete without a bunch of VMs. I’ve gone a bit heavier on LXC containerization this time, though, because I can cram more services onto the box. I generally prefer to run Debian wherever I can. It’s very lightweight out of the box, and it can run anything I throw at…
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The Lab – Networking
I can’t say I’ve ever had a formal networking setup in the lab. I went through consumer routers pretty quickly, and invariably overwhelmed them with … something. I’m not sure what kept killing their ability to pass traffic, but the fact remains that after a few days, traffic would stop. The first consumer router that…
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The Lab
Let’s get this out of the way really quickly: I’m going to try my best to avoid talking about specifics of work on this site. I am well aware of the volume of content I’m completely ignoring, but I suppose that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make in the name of privacy. The data center…
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The Reset Button
If there’s one thing I love about computers, it’s the ability to simply press a button and start all over again. Not all computers have such a button, but when they do, it’s comforting to know that it’s there. I’ve pressed the metaphorical button on this website numerous times over the past couple of decades.…