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…He's been building PCs since young, and when not creating content, you can often find him inside a chassis somewhere. Sign in to your XDA account Home lab enthusiasts have had…
…Sign in to your XDA account Running a home lab sounds pretty simple until you actually build out your first setup. Getting the home lab up and running is only one part…
…I discovered this firsthand when I audited my own setup. After cutting down my automation list to fewer than 10 items, my home runs better than it did with twice as many…
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Added a 16x Spark Cluster to my homelab over the last few days. Curious if this is the largest Spark cluster anyone has built. About 2 years ago I had renovated my basement and built a personal lab/datacenter into my off…
On the new home that I am building, I have this type of conduit setup. Not sure of the exact material, but it looks like some type of plastic. I could step on it, and it wouldn’t break. There might be some cases where th…
So I’m moving into an apartment building and this is who they have some sort of deal with and these are the only 2 plans offered. One would be $57 monthly ( extra $7 to be able to plug a physical connection in the built …
I’m putting together a NAS/media server/homelab box and wanted to get some opinions before I finalize everything. The goal is "affordable", high-capacity storage, Plex/transcoding, 10Gb networking, and room for future ex…
TL;DR: IncusOS enforces security by default, Proxmox trusts you to configure it yourself. Immutable host, atomic updates, zero OS maintenance. Lacks PBS and a mature UI. Not a Proxmox replacement yet but worth watching. …
…Sign in to your XDA account Google Home, Alexa, and HomeKit are the most common options when building smart home setups, and for good reason. Their plug-and-play nature, low reliance…
…Sign in to your XDA account Network shares are an essential part of any NAS server, as they’re responsible for providing centralized storage to your home lab paraphernalia. But when you…
…for my tinkering setup last year didn’t even hit the $10 mark! Related The 2026 home lab starter pack looks nothing like it did five years ago Building an experimentation lab…
…Home Assistant Making home automation actually smart Home Assistant was already a key part of my setup, but pairing it with Ollama made it much smarter without sending any data to the…
…home lab setups. r/Synology Unofficial Synology Forum Synology User Community on Facebook Final Thoughts A Synology NAS is one of the best options if you want reliable storage without building and…
…On paper, it sounds like a recipe for a fragile home lab theater. Failover doesn’t need to be perfect to be useful, especially in a home lab where recovery matters more…