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Here's my beautiful unemployed-for-too-long-have-no-money-dont-care-about-looks lab :)
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Not as clean as I would like, but way better than it started!
5 node Kubernetes cluster and a NAS. Runs about 250 pods.
My janky homelab lol. Mostly ebay secondhand Enterprise stuff and a Chinese SXM2 mezzanine board to run dual NVLinked 16gb V100s. I also have a TrueNAS Scale mini itx server running upstairs with my "arr" stack and some other useful tools.
OK you'll be able to tell I haven't bought a graphics card in a while, so.......wtf kind of graphics card is that? It's manly for sure...almost phallic in nature. What do you do with it besides 'Any ting you wan'.
I like your screenshot, what distro and DE is that?
Arch, not a DE, just hyprland.
What is the browser window showing?
heimdall
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You need to add backslashes to your underscores since Markdown is turning them into italics.
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Hard-drives deserve to be free to their cases! Free the drives!
I would post mine but itβs too messy for now
Classic blue 5-port gigabit switch. Chef's kiss!
These things will be with us until the heat death of the universe. Still chugging along.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| AP | WiFi Access Point |
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| HA | Home Assistant automation software |
| ~ | High Availability |
| IoT | Internet of Things for device controllers |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| NFS | Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency |
| NUC | Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers |
| NVMe | Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage |
| PSU | Power Supply Unit |
| PiHole | Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) |
| PoE | Power over Ethernet |
| RPi | Raspberry Pi brand of SBC |
| SBC | Single-Board Computer |
| SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
| Zigbee | Wireless mesh network for low-power devices |
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DNS is never the Domain Name Service.
The very first sentence of RFC 1034, the document that is the basis of DNS, identifies it as the Domain Name System.
Whatβs that web interface thing? Is it home made? I keep thinking about doing something like that to save me having to remember port numbers for the different services on my home server.
Hey you know what, screw it, see for yourself how it performs: apps.lorteau.fr
BTW I'm really liking asciinema, I think it's a great idea.
Example:
Edit: OMG it's so annoying how lemmy just rewrites img links - https://share.southernlights.fr/u/northernlights/2026-04-08_19-04-1775678390.mp4