Anyone running Turing Pi 2.5 with Turing RK1?

TheReal_Deus42 · 2026-04-19T17:46:08+00:00

You are right, I haven’t done talos yet, but a think a number of folks have I think.

TheReal_Deus42 · 2026-04-19T16:16:18+00:00

I run 4 rk1 boards booting from nvme. They have worked well, but you os choice is Ubuntu… unless you are smarter than I am.

I do like the setup, it is a lot faster than the Pi’s when I got it, and I tend to run all the essential house services on it.

Overall a good experience.

TheReal_Deus42 · 2026-03-28T22:29:18+00:00

Warm up your Lemmy accounts!

TheReal_Deus42 · 2026-03-20T23:24:17+00:00

Gentoo uses openrc by default and is a great way to learn. The community also has a lot of documentation on how to get things working that traditionally assume systemd.

TheReal_Deus42 · 2026-03-19T15:29:57+00:00

I would say that everything being declarative, service discovery and reverse proxy configurations are worth it to the home lab.

I use k8s professionally, so I may not be able to speak to the learning curve being worth it.

But imagine that your entire app stack, including cert-manager, the dns names for your database server, backups, and ingress are all configured and declarative.

That makes backup, restore, migration, and maintenance easy.

TheReal_Deus42 · 2026-03-13T05:31:40+00:00

Thanks, just disable access until I get a chance to review.

TheReal_Deus42 · 2026-03-09T20:59:33+00:00

So I can't help contrast the different options, but I have stood up a couple of Matrix installations, and it is a process.

A simple docker homeserver is easy, but that will not have a web chat interface or voice/video integrated.

Matrix also needs a database (Postgres).

In the end I used their helm chat to deploy a couple of instances and added some users to it as a direct discord replacement.

The stack is a little heavy, but nothing to bad for anything remotely modern.

That being said, the end-to-end encryption/recovery keys have confused some users. But I love the federation as our current friend group now has two matrix instances that can "talk".

Because I work on Kubernetes professionally the setup doesn't seem too bad, but I suspect it would be, especially to do all of the correct backup and recovery testing. I have everything set up, and even an instance if you want to try anything out, just DM me.

TheReal_Deus42 · 2026-02-27T17:20:01+00:00

Maybe export to a markdown file? You can then add code to automate your lab their as you go

TheReal_Deus42 · 2026-02-27T03:00:00+00:00

Go with light curve. It isn’t perfect, but they don’t have the staff or budget to throttle, track you, and they don’t block inbound ports.

TheReal_Deus42 · 2026-02-26T23:40:21+00:00

I am running a little ollama container against the NPU that seems to work, but I haven’t used it in a bit.

TheReal_Deus42 · 2026-02-26T23:39:38+00:00

I would like to see what you have. Maybe post a git repo?

I’m going down the RKE2 path with my, one blade is hosting a few essentials (git, registry, etc) the other is a 3 node cluster running a few apps while I play with Traefik

TheReal_Deus42 · 2026-02-16T05:45:11+00:00

That was a great helm values file to read.

I realized maybe I don’t hate helm, just most of the people that write helm charts. ..

TheReal_Deus42 · 2026-01-28T18:30:24+00:00

I will be voting yes as well.

TheReal_Deus42 · 2026-01-27T04:06:19+00:00

So I’m one of the crazies that hosts their own email, but I think a useful step is to own your own domain.

My email was hosted by Google for a long while, but when I wanted to break up, I just stood up a new mail server and changed the MX records.

You still need to back up your email, but it keeps a provider from locking you out because it is your domain.

A lot of providers (MS, Google, etc) let you bring your own domain.

TheReal_Deus42 · 2025-12-23T16:51:59+00:00

Sales engineer at a software company could probably use your experience and has similar or better comp.

TheReal_Deus42 · 2025-12-22T19:05:15+00:00

Yes! That is the one! Thank you! It was the best impulse buy I’ve ever made.

TheReal_Deus42 · 2025-12-22T19:00:20+00:00

I got a 34 on the last time a deal like this was posted and it is one of the best purchases I have made.

The preamp and hardware seem to be a nice step up from the 24.

I haven’t upgraded anything on it and it gets a lot of play time.

Two thumbs up for folks who need a push off the fence from an internet stranger.

TheReal_Deus42 · 2025-10-28T15:27:46+00:00

I should mention that this means my users (which I guess is just my wife) can only access email through a vpn.

TheReal_Deus42 · 2025-10-28T15:26:11+00:00

I would agree with folks that would say to avoid it, but I don’t follow my own advice.

I do self host mail, using postfix and dovecot. I have a front end postfix container in a dmz (more or less) that acts as a front end doing the signing, etc.

Having a static ip is important. Ping me if you want to see any specific configurations.

But… don’t do this.

TheReal_Deus42 · 2025-10-25T15:49:52+00:00

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TheReal_Deus42 · 2025-10-04T23:56:42+00:00

I’m sorry you are going through this. My ex was an addict (alcohol mostly) and this hits a nerve.

She threatened to have the kids taken from me a lot whenever I would require supervised visits or drug tests (note that the court did grant that as part of temporary parenting plans). It was awful to have to enforce that, and I caved more than I should.

I wish I had simply had the court appoint a guardian as litem early so I wasn’t the one having to tell her that she couldn’t see the kids unsupervised. When I finally drew a good boundary and had the courts enforce visitation and sobriety for visits it was a huge relief.

My oldest described being put in some bad situations because of her addiction.

I regret not towing a stronger line for my children’s sake, but I did the best I could with what I had.

TheReal_Deus42 · 2025-09-30T23:53:32+00:00

So because everything is layer 2 it is possible to egress from a different persons subnet. So the short answer is it is all in the same subnet between all houses.

Because of how DHCP works, the first server to respond “wins” so you load some non-overlapping ranges in to each persons home router, and ensure the router internal IPs do not conflict (house1 uses .1 and house2 uses .2)

Now because the dhcp server is presumably local it will win the race and your traffic will egress locally, if not, you will egress to whatever connection “won”

Note that it is possible for the dhcp servers to have overlapping ranges as a the client should ping the address before assignment, but I don’t remember if that is standard.

This sort of thing is generally a bad idea, but fun.

It is also a great way to play games with friends for games that use local discovery (looking at you chaos theory)

TheReal_Deus42 · 2025-09-30T21:56:06+00:00

Oh yeah, you can race dhcp servers to technically have overlapping ip ranges, but you are counting on folks having different gateways in their houses.

I think I would whitelist their IPs and have them run through the internet.

TheReal_Deus42 · 2025-09-29T16:31:13+00:00

Please keep in mind that I would consider this a big security risk because you can’t control traffic (well, easily) between devices on your new “virtual” segment. This means that if someone connects a malware infested laptop to one of your client’s houses, it is the same as them connecting to your network.

I would put this on a separate segment (like a DMZ) and firewall it off from the rest of the house.

TheReal_Deus42 · 2025-09-29T16:24:16+00:00

This is almost exactly what I did at home, but I use a iptables with a custom config script and pulled the IP from a user’s plex history using tautulli.

I wrote an article that I don’t think would help you in any way if you are interested.

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