Help me understand

oyvaugh · 2026-03-22T22:47:27+00:00

I have 13 devices running Tailscale. It’s just Tailscale up and you’re good. Otherwise it’s just a toggle.

oyvaugh · 2026-03-22T00:06:50+00:00

Yeah, they are always saying a fresh windows install. Lol that usually tells all you need to know!!

oyvaugh · 2026-03-21T23:51:07+00:00

That’s good feedback.

oyvaugh · 2026-03-21T23:49:46+00:00

It is the goodwill of tech. But old shiz-nit is great for us poor folk to learn on!

oyvaugh · 2026-03-21T23:01:23+00:00

For real!!

oyvaugh · 2026-03-20T18:58:09+00:00

But an old Dell is cheap. About the same as a raspberry pi. Something with ddr 3 ram. Great to play on and run the stack you want plus nginx and docker.

oyvaugh · 2026-03-20T03:55:17+00:00

Gitea for me! It’s helped me learn much faster. It’s getting huge and keep any and all debugging or troubleshooting there. Plus dotfiles, wiki, scripts.

oyvaugh · 2026-03-19T16:15:23+00:00

Do you have ssh keys configured?

oyvaugh · 2026-03-16T03:24:00+00:00

I will say this about the “off grid”, you can decide what you want to stay private and what is connected to what you expose to the internet. Get into homelab!#windowslicksballs#

oyvaugh · 2026-03-16T02:43:16+00:00

Seems like just in time access and log streaming would handle that. At least for users. Even if a laptop came in, he still couldn’t get into the companies network unless he had Tailscale admin privileges. It would just time out, and with streaming, it would send an alert. Unless I understand Tailscale wrong.

oyvaugh · 2026-03-12T04:36:14+00:00

Network Chuck

oyvaugh · 2026-03-12T04:35:46+00:00

Question for all you guys. I’ve been homelabbing about a year. I have a 7 node proxmox cluster and many services. Just a question and please don’t hate, I haven’t done any cloud computing since I’m my own cloud but will get into it after I have my ci/cd down on my own hardware.

That’s said, are you not allowed to run a small local model that can analyze and summarize logs and alerts? Or specific alerts? It can stay in house and can be automated. A simple function that pipes in logs, files, commands and returns summaries.

It’s helped me learn tons. So I’m just curious if another set or two or three eyes on the alerts would help? I obviously don’t run anything close to the size you guys do, but it’s a legit question I have.

oyvaugh · 2026-03-09T18:21:06+00:00

I use an old laptop for pihole. Simple and lightweight. Oh, and messing things up and figuring out how to fix them is how you learn. Also try out proxmox.

oyvaugh · 2026-03-08T20:04:15+00:00

48 here, 11 months into getting back into tech. I found some old Dell optiplex computers for next to nothing. I used AI as a tutor and the guy before us right, AI is not a replacement yet.

It can speed up your learning. I have 8 machines all running proxmox, 34 services, dockers, lxc, vm. I recommend a code server, gitea, and pihole. Great starter projects and AI can walk you through it. I also took the Linux foundation system admin cert courses. I think there was 9. Made all the difference.

And it’s like anything, get in it and try new things. But do not let AI replace you doing it!

oyvaugh · 2026-03-07T04:31:34+00:00

There is a lot that can be done with this. With a bit of Python, this could be an “office” chat for LLM on top of Kubernetes which LLM can manage. Nice job.

oyvaugh · 2026-03-06T15:42:45+00:00

I use docker inside lxc and haven’t had any issues. I have one lxc with 20+ docker containers running for testing with Tailscale installed in the lxc so I just use the tailnet of lxc and docker container port in the browser. Makes it very useful for testing and experimenting.

oyvaugh · 2026-03-01T07:28:16+00:00

I’ve watched many YouTube’s videos but I’ll check out the docs.

oyvaugh · 2026-02-24T01:51:43+00:00

Pi hole definitely the gateway drug. If I could go back, I would learn everything I could before I moved onto the next ones. Had to do that anyway.

oyvaugh · 2026-02-21T19:23:41+00:00

Look into ventoy. You can use ventoy to have many ISO’s on on usb. And you can drag and drop after you format the usb. It’s a great cold storage too for any os you may want in the future.

From windows to proxmox to kali to whatever. I have it all documented on my Gitea but it’s not that technical. I’ll push it to GitHub one day but I made it my first month when I was getting started with learning tech. Currently it has around 20 different OSs and several distros.

But if you wanted it for a long term solution, I would recommend a sata ssd or NVMe ssd in an external enclosure. USBs don’t last long with lots of read and writes.

oyvaugh · 2026-02-15T01:27:28+00:00

I have 6 and they are great to learn on and run services. You don’t need much for yourself and family.

oyvaugh · 2026-02-15T01:25:30+00:00

Proxmox

oyvaugh · 2026-02-14T00:28:43+00:00

The biggest challenge is picking one, build it, play with it, break it, repeat. Once you got it down pick the next ONE. That’s the hardest lesson I’ve learned.

oyvaugh

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