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#Homelab

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I tried to set up a Galene server this morning on a disposable instance on a cloud provider. The web interface failed on every call. Forbidden on the root page, not found on others. Even the TURN server didn't work. That was supposed to be easier than my previous self-hosted try, but it was worse!

While looking for new hardware for our home server (a 19'' mini rack server is very tempting...), I just came across project #minirack

10" rack server builds using a mix of off-the-shelf commercial and #diy #3dprinted mounts, panels, frontplates etc.

Looks interesting (and the mini racks are also rather cute).
Maybe interesting to some of you.

github.com/geerlingguy/mini-ra
mini-rack.jeffgeerling.com/

Miniature rack builds, for portable or compact Homelabs. - geerlingguy/mini-rack
GitHubGitHub - geerlingguy/mini-rack: Miniature rack builds, for portable or compact Homelabs.Miniature rack builds, for portable or compact Homelabs. - geerlingguy/mini-rack

Future #homelab space! Having part of the “attic” space finished to complement the recent solar+battery installation. Aiming for lots of sound proofing thus why the elevated floor.

#Proxmox virtualization often goes along with the great Proxmox Backup Server - and we always want statistics! Let's get our metrics of PBS in Grafana!

In this HowTo, we will quickly install and configure the pbs-exporter for hashtag#Prometheus on a Proxmox Backup Server system, add a token for the user and install the hashtag#Grafana dashboard. - #devops #homelab #netops #virtualization #backup #pbs #proxmoxbackupserver

gyptazy.com/howto-proxmox-back

fuck my #btrfs partition just went read-only for no reason. smart tests ain’t failing but btrfs scrubs are

waiting for the data to get backupd and then just gonna reformat it with fucking xfs or ext4
#homelab

So I bought and used the cursed USB to 1/8" serial cable to reset the password on the APC #UPS network card. It's probably been about 20 years since I had to think about 9600 baud, 8N1 parity.

The ebay seller was pretty cool about it. They sold me 2 of these network cards. One had the default password and one didn't. When I pointed this out, they refunded one. Well, the cost of the cursed cable is about the same as the network card. So it all worked out in the end.

I will give #SchneiderElectric this much credit: one of these UPSes had firmware from 2014. And the release of firmware that I uploaded this week was issued in February 2025. That's pretty impressive, really. Especially for a UPS from APC, which they acquired.

Wanted to set up old laptop as a #homelab VM server but didn't want the complexity of #proxmox for my basic needs. #Truenas scale might have been ok except for the need for a dedicated boot device. Dropped on Redhat's "#cockpit machines" today and so far it seems perfect, very easy to spin up new VMs and access them through a polished web UI, as well as manage the host itself. Feel like this project deserves better recognition #linux