Tag: homelab

Plex tripled the lifetime price to $749. Here's a decision tree plus a working Jellyfin migration plan: Docker, transcoding, clients, watch history.

Stop letting every machine write directly to S3. Kopia repository server gives you shared dedup, per-host auth, and sane maintenance, all in one place.

Pipe ZFS incremental snapshots through WireGuard to a friend's NAS or a remote VPS. Encrypted in transit and at rest, no rsync.net bill or vendor lock-in.

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.

Skip the paid Unraid license. mergerfs + SnapRAID give you flexible JBOD pooling with parity protection on mismatched drives you already own, for free.

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.

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.

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.

GPU passthrough on Proxmox is the best way to isolate LLM workloads, but it's a minefield of IOMMU groups, vfio-pci binding, and Code 43 errors. This post walks through the whole thing end-to-end.

Per-container control over Docker image updates with labels. Auto-update or notify via Discord, Slack, ntfy, no sidecar needed.

Wire up QSV, VAAPI, or NVENC in Immich so face recognition and thumbnails run on the GPU, not your CPU. Step-by-step for Intel, AMD, and Nvidia.

You've been compromised. Now what? A practical incident response playbook for self-hosters who didn't think they'd need one until right now.