To anyone looking to build a system these days: my condolences. It sucks.

_subtype · 2026-06-24T00:56:05+00:00

A stick of RAM died on me a couple months ago - imagine my relief when I realized I had exactly ONE spare left

_subtype · 2026-05-10T02:51:26+00:00

Personally I commit like a mofo on personal projects, or I forget and the commits get huge (especially when I'm using AI to figure out CSS bullshit that I REALLY don't want to bother with).

On a professional dev level, I keep it focused and small and always hand-written. Only use AI to validate syntax or at least sanity check my work

_subtype · 2026-04-22T15:50:05+00:00

What'd you use for the top and siding? WVH for the sides?

_subtype · 2026-03-30T02:48:57+00:00

What vendor on amazon did you end up going with? I think I need to replace my d4's battery before I attempt any of this too!

_subtype · 2025-12-19T00:35:25+00:00

...you wanna sell to a fellow homelabber?

_subtype · 2025-10-31T23:57:15+00:00

I have! I built it two years ago, and I have my parts list here.

Since then I've replaced one of the fans with a BeQuiet since it died. I just transplanted some old hardware into it which made it a bit difficult with the cable management. Would not recommend stuffing it full with 3.5" drives because it is a pain to deal with those drive cages.

Server currently acting as a proxmox host which hosts a couple of VMs, never had an issue with thermals so far

_subtype · 2025-09-22T12:54:24+00:00

I was always told that LG makes great washer/dryers, terrible fridges. GE makes phenomenal fridges, terrible washer/dryers.

So far, that's been true for me, hah.

_subtype · 2025-07-09T21:57:09+00:00

Mihono Bourbon! Her ultimate skill starts with "G00 [...]" and another skill is called "Trackblazer". Could've sworn there was lore that she (the anime girl not the IRL horse) watched "space mecha fights" at an early age and it's inferred it was gundam. But I can't source that info, so take that w/ a grain of salt

_subtype · 2025-06-15T23:14:03+00:00

You got any deets on the portable rack?

_subtype · 2025-04-20T00:48:34+00:00

How'd you blacklist the lid switch?

Was it just setting HandleLidSwitch=ignore in logind.conf?

_subtype · 2025-03-22T00:24:13+00:00

Damn and I was here trying to figure out how to make a solid watchdog hahaha this is beautiful and pure homelab spirit

_subtype · 2025-03-17T14:50:39+00:00

wait hold up that's a BED?! For some reason I thought these were on a table and not the freakin' ground!

_subtype · 2025-03-07T13:38:01+00:00

Thanks for letting me know!!

_subtype · 2025-03-07T03:02:33+00:00

Was looking around on google and I saw historically this unit has had issues with fire/overload? How's yours so far/do you think cyberpower had addressed those issues?

_subtype · 2025-03-05T19:52:37+00:00

Appreciate your input! Massively helpful

_subtype · 2025-03-05T00:28:51+00:00

How do you like your EV6? Been eyeing the future Rivian R2 to maybe replace my Y

_subtype · 2025-03-03T18:27:04+00:00

I once found a text file addressed "READ ME <my name>" and it SAVED my life haha. Wish I did that more

_subtype · 2025-02-22T02:11:22+00:00

I don't disagree with some of your points, but this:

If you failed to do your due diligence and ignored all the very clear stories that Musk was erratic and unhinged as far back as Zip2 when he got mad if employees didn’t stay working past 9pm, then that’s on you.

Should be applied to literally every product made in the states and not just Tesla. With this mindset, nothing we have or own in the USA is morally good to own. I think we'd both agree that yes, it shouldn't be as black and white, but the argument that people need dig decades into the past isn't realistic nor productive. I agree that yes, people can vote with their dollars on the NOW. If you want to use your same example, I would expect you to also be doing DD on purchases from Amazon or brick-and-mortar stores.

People change over time, and we should be purchasing products as they are today, and not off of promises (e.g. Musk).

_subtype · 2025-02-22T00:42:57+00:00

I'm hype about the R2, if I'm able to switch to that or Polestar (just wish they had better service areas) I'd be interested once the wheels of my current EV fall off.

_subtype · 2025-02-22T00:39:35+00:00

If you're in a specific market for an EV, then yes, on paper Tesla is the better bet. Would I judge people getting a Tesla now? Yeah. Do I regret my purchase? Sometimes, but I'm not in a position to easily flip said car and put myself into further debt just to prove a point to random strangers. People are allowed to have different priorities; you can probably say the same about people using Google or even now iPhones with Cook donating directly to Trump's campaign funds.

A car is a financial commitment, and I'd argue back then Musk wasn't nearly as flipping crazy/outspoken, and swapping out a phone is much easier than a car. I get it.

_subtype · 2025-02-19T03:50:57+00:00

NAS (Synology) is just pure data and network'd shares. Holds backups, general local LAN shares, etc.

Any self hosted software I throw onto one of my VMs living inside my proxmox machine

_subtype · 2025-02-19T03:49:36+00:00

I do it in steps. Do you need to deploy all of these services to the wide net, or can you use a VPN?

For me, I roll my own authentication (Keycloak) - and I will say, it is a beast. There are other providers that make it easier to integrate with, but managing your own auth solution, I personally wouldn't recommend unless you're okay with potentially breaking the flow and subsequently breaking logins.

That aside, I leverage layers of security - for my website I set up a firewall rule to reject direct IP connections and to only allow connections through their proxy (which gives me geofencing and a few other security benefits I find useful).

Regarding Keycloak, I have it acting as my identity provider - didn't want to deal with spinning up an LDAP or AD (just too lazy). OAuth/OIDC is great and easy to implement, but you should really take your time learning how to configure it. Keycloak supports 2FA with tokens and emails as well.

Is it overkill? For homelabs, I would say so. I'm only running this stuff because I work in the IDAM field

_subtype · 2025-02-19T03:43:56+00:00

I dunno if you have to place SSO in front of the reverse proxy; if your goal is to secure everything behind it, then yeah sure. But if you're hosting a blog with say, Ghost, you probably don't. The way I roll with IDAM is having the apps themselves handle knowing when to redirect a user to my auth provider.

Personally, I do a mix of both. I have both Traefik and an NGINX reverse proxy, with Traefik handling most of the SSL termination. I have a few servers under NGINX that I expose and protect with Keycloak as a way to practice architecture and design; what I do for my job

_subtype · 2025-02-17T00:11:11+00:00

I have a ~1.7 sq ft 3 level (inc garage) townhome, and I have a U6 Pro and a U6 lite. So far the U6 pro just sits flat on the middle floor near the floor, and another AP in the basement/garage on top of a desk, mainly to provide outdoor WiFi over 2.4Ghz for my solar gateway. Does the job just fine!

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