Proxmox Backup Server is the wrong default for small home labs
Jeff Butts May 6, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system…
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I stopped adding hardware to my home lab when I realized fewer moving parts meant more uptime
Jeff Butts Jun 6, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system…
I let Claude Code Routines babysit my home lab while I slept, and it caught what my monitoring missed
Jeff Butts May 29, 2026, 1:00 PM EDT Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system…
Remote monitoring is the 3D printing feature I can't live without now
Jeff Butts Jun 3, 2026, 5:00 PM EDT Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system…
The best cheap Linux-based desktop you can buy was never designed to run Linux
Jeff Butts May 13, 2026, 9:00 AM EDT Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system…
Building a local LLM news brief taught me my real problem wasn't the sources, it was the apps
Jeff Butts May 3, 2026, 8:30 AM EDT Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system…
Running Proxmox on my ASUS NUC 14 Pro Plus taught me where mini PCs still fall short
Jeff Butts May 20, 2026, 9:00 AM EDT Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system…
Four NVMe slots changed how I think about home lab storage, and a $170 mini PC made it click
Jeff Butts Apr 29, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system…
My Raspberry Pi NAS taught me that cheap storage isn't worth the compromise
Jeff Butts Apr 17, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system…
Your 3D printer doesn't need as much tweaking as people say — defaults work better than you think
Jeff Butts Apr 14, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system…