▤HOMELAB

Homelab Storage You Can Afford to Lose

The lab rule inverted: decide what is disposable first, protect the tiny remainder properly, and skip the NAS you were about to buy.

Picking Homelab Hardware Without Wasting Money

The used-enterprise trap, the mini-PC sweet spot, and why your first server should cost less than your monitor.

Pi-hole: Ad-Blocking for the Whole House

One DNS server, every device on the network, zero browser extensions — and why this is the workload that actually convinces skeptics.

Proxmox in One Evening

Install the hypervisor first, even for one machine — snapshots make every later experiment reversible, which is the whole point of a lab.

Tailscale: Reach Your Lab From Anywhere

Flat, private networking to every lab machine with zero opened ports — and why port forwarding was never the answer.

The Lab, Eight Parts Later

What actually got built, what it cost, and the two incidents that proved the 'allowed to break' rule from part one was the right one.

What a Homelab Actually Is

Not a datacenter in your closet. A place where breaking things is cheap — which changes what you should buy and what you should skip.

Running Small Local Models on My Homelab

Q6_K quantization, GGUF, and what 24GB of VRAM actually buys you in real throughput rather than benchmark numbers.

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