what does my homelab look like?
The hardware I used hasn't changed in 2 years. I used some used dell optiplex's (9020m, 7060)
New software additions:
No more: motioneye, openwrt, dagster, grafana, filestash, homepage
Main reason for ditching the services above is they either added unneeded complexity and/or i did not use them!
check out the ansible code for more details: ansible-compose
Other additions
For Christmas I explored using individually addressable LED again, using a wled controller. I switched from a thrifted openwrt router to a new router, performance gain was negligible for me. I should have read this before buying wiisfi
Next goals
Do I want a small rack? yes Do I want more ubiquiti stuff? yes Do I want to spend that money? no
I plan on setting up an all-in-one server that will act as a
- NAS, media server and gpu inference server This server will run proxmox with truenas.
I am waiting on some parts from aliexpress so maybe ill make another blogpost later.
Why even spend time on a homelab?
I wont go into too much detail about the benefit of each individual service. However, I will talks about the general benefits of a homelab for me.
Tinkering with these things helps me make tradeoff's between time, exploration and cost. Spending 20hrs saving 10 dollars is a bad choice!
Also, building things from hardware to final product helps me understand new things and build on knowledge I already have!
Links
Ubiquiti goals Proxmox and GPU passthrough PCI passthrough via OVMF - ArchWiki
LLMs NvidiaOverclocking/Nvidia Overclocking.md at main · LunarPSD/NvidiaOverclocking
High speed USB4 mesh network Direct 20 Gbps connection between Mac and Windows machine with no Ethernet adapters Homelab inspo What are your most used self-hosted applications? Bios settings for low power setup