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Posts for: #Hardware
Giving a 2012 Mac Mini a Second Life with Debian and XFCE
Putting Debian and XFCE on a 2012 Mac Mini and handing it to an 8-year-old for Minecraft.
Vendor Relationships and Free Enterprise Gear
How vendor sales reps and refresh cycles put perfectly good enterprise hardware into the hands of anyone paying attention.
A Dumpster-Bound R710 That Ran for Another 8 Years
A Dell R710 rescued from a motorcycle dealership decom ran for another 8 years in my homelab. Enterprise refresh cycles, grey market gear, and why Proxmox doesn’t care about your HCL.
The Budget Home Datacenter
The physical side of the homelab: a 2x4 rack, terrible wiring, a broken UPS faceplate, and a full cost breakdown.
Cheap NVMe, Dead Talos, and How I Ended Up on MicroK8s
Off-brand NVMe drives, a failed Talos install, 20 hours of PXE boot failures, and the pivot to MicroK8s.
The Storage Array
Storage architecture across the lab: ZFS, NFS, Longhorn, and how it all fits together.
The FreeNAS Box: 10 Years of Spinning Rust
The SuperMicro FreeNAS box that has been serving NFS for a decade.