Buy a UPS and setup a NUT server on the spare raspberry pi you have lying around.
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heck i really wish we could all throw a party together. part swap, stories swap. show off cool shit for everyone to copy.
help each other fill in the missing pieces
y'all seem like cool peeps meme-ing about shit nobody else gets!
time to test the backups!
time to test the backups!
Always a white knuckle event for me
You just described a convention.
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Do you have a spinning fish display in front of your homelab server, right? We all know the spinning fish improves performance and security, it is a indispensable part of homelabbing
J O E L
You should use Arch, then you can update every 15 minutes 🤭
Barring any hardware issues or external factors, will it run for 10000 years? Any logs not properly rotated? And other outputs accumulating and eventually filling up a filesystem?
Nothing to install? Not with that attitude!
Start a 10" rack.
If logging is down and there's no one around to log it, is it really down?
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Me to my lab.
Yeah, my home server was being a little too stable and I wasn't really learning anything. So I switched from fedora to proxmox, now I've got a nixos vm I'm going to try to get all my services running in.
I test in my Homeproduction
Off topic, warning: this comment section is making me want to learn things
It's been 2 days off reddit and my brain has opinions other than "aaaargh" or "meh".
Proceed with caution
No upstream bugs to fix?
OP, totally understand, but this is a level of success with your homelab. Nothing needs fiddling with. Now, there is a whole Awesome Self Hosted list you could deploy on a non-production server and run that through the paces.
Living the good life
Yes that does seem to describe modern computing, indeed, consumer electronics in general.
It's no longer about solving actual problems, it IS the problem.
How is the kubernetes (k3s/rke2) migration coming along?
One word: chaos engineering!