This free self-hosted app turned my Jellyfin server into a YouTube archive overnight
…Then, I ran docker compose up -d to get Pinchflat up and running, before using the VM’s IP address and port 8945 to access the app’s web UI. After I…
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Running Jellyfin on a NAS with Docker support turned my media chaos into something that actually works
…There was always just a little too much friction between wanting to watch something and actually getting there. Moving Jellyfin onto the NAS and taking advantage of its native Docker support pulled…
I turned a Raspberry Pi and mini PC into a portable homelab that fits in my backpack
…Proxmox for virtualization , a few VMs, LXC containers, Immich for managing photos, Jellyfin for streaming media, a file server, and Docker containers like Caddy, Redis, Jenkins, and others. The NVMe enables all…
My entire homelab runs on an 8-year-old laptop most people would throw away
…Instead of installing everything directly, I decided to use Docker. It gave me a clean separation of services and was easy to manage, update, and remove. Since Docker containers share the host…
I built my first home server for under $200, and it replaced 4 monthly subscriptions
…The key advantage is isolation — containers bundle their own dependencies and are separated from the host OS and each other. Docker doesn't inherently make apps faster, back up your data, or…
I installed Synology's software on a dead NAS and it runs circles around the original
…It'll emulate a Synology NAS and load everything accordingly. After playing around with Xpenology on Proxmox and using it for storing most of our data to see how it would handle…
The worst gaming GPU in your drawer might be your best home server upgrade
…For transcoding specifically, the NVIDIA plus Jellyfin combination in Docker is probably the most documented GPU configuration in the self-hosted community. It's not plug-and-play, but it's close…
My home lab dashboards were a mess until I let ChatGPT tie them together
…I have separate pages for Proxmox, Pi-hole, Home Assistant, Jellyfin, Uptime Kuma, and whatever I happened to spin up during a productive weekend. Each one is useful on its own, but…
Distrobox is like a package manager for distros that runs on top of your distro, and I love it
…Related I kept waiting for Docker to fail, but nineteen containers on bare metal proved Proxmox wrong The hypervisor I never actually needed. And again, you have the benefit of performance with…
A $40 label maker and QR codes completely changed how I manage my home lab
…I have a dashboard that lists and links to various points on the network, and I'm mostly accessing devices and other services through memory and reference on OPNsense or Proxmox, but…