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Claude Code found the quiet problems hiding in my Home Assistant setup, and I've been ignoring them for months
4d agoI stopped checking my home lab backups manually after Claude Code helped me build these checks
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One DNS tool did what two containers couldn't, and I'm not going back to Pi-hole
…After moving from Pi-hole and dnscrypt-proxy to AdGuard Home, I had one dashboard, one backup, one update cycle, and one log source. One dashboard for filtering, clients, query logs, and…
My entire homelab runs on an 8-year-old laptop most people would throw away
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An AI agent deleted a company's entire database in 9 seconds, then confessed it 'guessed' instead of asking
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I stopped dismissing FreeBSD after trying out its modern distros
…OPNsense is a powerful router OS for security-conscious folks Even its rival, pfSense, is built on good ol’ FreeBSD Ask any home labber about their networking stack, and they’re bound…
SSD caching on a NAS sounds clever, but it's the wrong upgrade for most workloads
…everything from backups to occasional movie sessions won’t really benefit from an SSD cache. Essentially, you’d end up expending your SSD’s endurance without noticeably improving your home lab tasks…
Your old laptop is too weak for Windows 11, but it's strong enough for home lab VMs and containers
…Sign in to your XDA account If you’re a newcomer to the home lab ecosystem, you might believe bulky rigs and ex-enterprise systems are the only hardware that could keep…
The best NAS distro dropped a public beta for its new update, and it feels more like Proxmox with each release
…Sign in to your XDA account I’ve been rocking both TrueNAS and Proxmox in my home lab, with both platforms fulfilling their own roles. The former powers my local and remote…
I never use my Pixel phone without these powerful open-source apps
…It offers automated local backups. I have it set up to export an encrypted backup file to my local device storage every time I scan a new QR code. If I ever…