Home lab: a jumping-off point to cooler projects

I used to buy guitars I didn't need. Now the vast majority of my music gear is lent out to friends who actually play. I never made a career out of music, so the investment wasn't great. Since then, my hobbies have gotten much less expensive. I program, and most of the software I use …

Excitement for self-hosted experiments

I'm continuing the Learn Linux TV course on Proxmox during the evenings. I haven't actually done anything with Proxmox yet, but I watched a video on the channel where Jay set up Kubernetes on a Proxmox VM cluster, and my imagination is running wild with experiments that I'll probably never do. They're fun to think …

Home lab: day 1

It's been a tired day, but I spent a couple of hours exploring my new ThinkStation, which will be a the center piece of my home lab. Window 11 is slow Before I wiped the drive, I wanted to experiment with Windows 11. Except for a three-month period in 2014 when my Mac was dead, …

Filling out my house and home lab & router discoveries

It's been a busy week of acquiring stuff. I got a couch at half price because it was a floor model, I found a free washer and dryer, and I bought a used Lenovo ThinkStation to start building a VM-powered home lab. The ThinkStation is a big departure from my previous plans to build a …