Home Assistant kept wasting power on my home lab, and this tiny change fixed it
…And in an environment like Proxmox and TrueNAS, you can do a lot more. For one thing, you can limit how much of your system resources a VM or container can utilize…
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I used Cockpit instead of a full NAS OS, and my spare Linux box finally made sense for home storage
…access it from my PC. Related 4 underrated alternatives to TrueNAS Scale and Unraid for NAS lovers The NAS rabbit hole hides plenty of niche distros I also tossed in some containerization…
I share my Immich photos publicly without exposing my server, and here's how
…Instead of exposing Immich directly, this tool runs as a lightweight proxy service between visitors and my photo server. The proxy only handles public shares and does not provide access to the…
I finally found a way to visualize my messy home lab and it made monitoring my stack so much easier
…It can read directly from the Docker socket and automatically surface container information. This means you don't need to manually keep everything up to date. Just label your containers, and Homepage…
A modern NAS replaced my smart home hub, backup solution, and media server
…The only way forward was Docker and open-source options. Using containers, I now host a handful of apps that replace tools I used to depend on elsewhere and, amongst everything else…
4 reasons Plex is pushing me further and further towards Jellyfin
…Meanwhile, Jellyfin supports hardware transcoding without forcing me to spend an extra dime, and I can easily pair my beloved GTX 1080 with the container for lag-free encoding and decoding for…
I built a local AI stack with 5 Docker containers, and now I'll never pay for ChatGPT again
…Each container solves a specific problem, but together they create a flexible system that keeps improving over time. Self-hosting AI is not just about privacy; it’s about ownership and control…
Your NAS needs more RAM than you think
…file system for home servers and NAS rigs. The Adaptive Replacement Cache is one feature that can improve read speeds considerably by copying the most frequently accessed data to the memory. Rather…
This SSH tool finally solved the problem I've been working around for a decade
…The same goes for my Proxmox nodes, where Ansible sets up the baseline via SSH before configuring API access to manage VMs and everything else . Then it's used to SSH into…
I tested dual-boot, WSL2, and VMs to run Linux apps on Windows, and only one was worth keeping
…However, you don’t really need a separate machine just to access Linux packages. Between WSL2, virtual machines, and dual-boot, you’ve got several ways to access this FOSS ecosystem even…