In the fall of 2022 I turned off Zeta, my file server, due to the extreme price of electricity. I migrated all the data to a 3x18 TB raidz1 pool on Alpha instead. But last year I brought it back — and...

When I was trying out Netdata last year — I noticed I had lots of inbound_packets_dropped_ratio warnings, on multiple nodes. Time to investigate 👇

I’ve looked into different video solution for this blog before — and, at the time, settled on using Coconut.co for encoding, AWS S3 for hosting, and Video.js for playing. Bunny Stream was on the table...

I’m using a Shelly Plus Plug S smart plug to measure the power usage of my homelab. I added it as a device in Home Assistant — and the power readings began! Kind of… Within a few days; I noticed somet...

As I have written before; I like the concept of blog post series. Break a large topic, or ongoing project, into multiple posts — while maintaining the chronological order. But one key factor for a suc...

Sometimes, when I’m not too busy with my homelab or some other electronics project — I pretend to be a woodworker or carpenter. This time I made a pub table, using an old kitchen tabletop of oak. I go...

Most of my computer projects includes, or revolves around, my homelab — a 29U, 600x600 mm, rack in my home office.

I’ve been having a strange problem with outgoing WireGuard traffic, the problem has probably always been there — I just haven’t noticed, until now. Outgoing WireGuard traffic is very slow, while incom...

I built a rack out of wood in 2004 — it was at home, and a lab, of sorts, so I guess that makes it a homelab 🙂 Let’s take a trip down memory lane and look at 20 years’ worth of homelabbing ❤️

While doing some WireGuard testing between local peers; I noticed weird performance issues on my virtual Mikrotik router. This lead me down a rabbit hole of testing the layer 3 throughput on my virtua...

My homelab rack has been running as is for a while now — it’s time for a few new projects. I’m rearranging stuff to better utilize the space, looking into 25 Gbit networking, and putting a HP Z440 ser...

We have a Dakboard digital calendar in our kitchen — showing lots of house and temperature data. So naturally; it must show the actual outdoor temperature as well. To do this I used a Raspberry Pi 2, ...

Our Komfovent balanced ventilation system is pretty bad at accurate timekeeping — the time drifts several minutes over the course of a few months. This is a bit annoying as the operator panel is promi...

I recently upgraded all my Proxmox VE servers from version 7 to 8 — which was a straight forward and easy process. But one server presented a challenge; the hypervisor running my router. How to apt di...

I’ve been using my HP ZBook 15 G5 laptop a lot lately, but it annoyed me that I couldn’t tap the touchpad in i3. It does have physical buttons — but I’m used to tapping on the pad… My laptop is runnin...