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K3s vs K0s vs MicroK8s: Lightweight Kubernetes for Home Labs
K3s, K0s, and MicroK8s all slim down Kubernetes for home labs and edge, but they make very different tradeoffs. Here's how to pick the right one without losing a weekend.
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Restic Repository Maintenance: Prune, Check, Forget
Restic forget, prune, and check: right order, real retention flags, cron automation, and why --read-data on a large repo will ruin your whole weekend.
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Blog Comments: Self-Host or SaaS?
Disqus is a tracker farm wearing a comment box costume. Here's every real alternative, self-hosted and SaaS, and which one actually fits your blog.
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CrowdSec Collections & Bouncers: fail2ban for 2026
CrowdSec is fail2ban with community threat intel: scenario collections plus pluggable bouncers for Caddy or Traefik. Block millions of bad IPs from day one.
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mergerfs + SnapRAID: The Poor Man's Unraid
Skip the paid Unraid license. mergerfs + SnapRAID give you flexible JBOD pooling with parity protection on mismatched drives you already own, for free.
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Headscale: Self-Host Your Own Tailscale Control Plane
Headscale gives you all the magic of Tailscale's zero-config WireGuard mesh, without trusting a SaaS control plane. Deploy it end-to-end with Docker Compose, ACLs, MagicDNS, and exit nodes.
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Object Storage on a Pi: SeaweedFS Cluster Walkthrough
Run a real S3-compatible object storage cluster on Raspberry Pi 4s with SeaweedFS, low RAM overhead, fast filer, no Ceph drama or surprise cloud bills.
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eBPF for the Curious: Kernel Tracing Without the PhD
eBPF traces what Linux is actually doing, syscalls, TCP events, slow functions, without rebooting. A hands-on intro to bpftrace, BCC, and libbpf with copy-paste one-liners.
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Bind Mounts vs NFS for Container Storage
Bind mounts are fast and simple; NFS is shared and flexible for containers. Pick wrong and your database corrupts at 2 AM. Here is how to choose wisely.
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NixOS First Impressions for Pragmatists
An honest take on migrating a home lab box to NixOS with flakes: the steep learning cliff, the weird Nix language, and why atomic rollbacks win.
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Bcachefs in 2026: Ready or Not
Bcachefs got booted from the Linux mainline kernel and now ships as a DKMS module. Stability verdict, tiering, and a straight answer for home lab use in 2026.
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tmux vs Zellij vs Screen: Pick Your Multiplexer
Screen is on every server, tmux is the sysadmin workhorse, and Zellij is the modern newcomer with sane defaults. Here's how all three compare, and which one you should actually use.
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