#home-lab — Public Fediverse posts

I think I'll need some help here. I'm still looking for a 5-pinned USB Mini-B cable, where the 5th pin isn't the shielding but the ID pin.
Alternatively also a plug that has to be soldered onto a PCB would work.
Basically anything with a plug that also exposes the ID pin works.

It's apparently impossible to search for that thing, all I get is "USB-C" or "Micro-B".

If you find it on aliexpress also let me know, maybe they just don't ship it to Germany or I overlooked it.

#HomeLab #IoT #PCB

Things got messy: https://youtube.com/shorts/_i8zms-Xl-M

#mentalhealthjourney #healingjourney #messydesk #homelab #behindthescenes #selfhosting

I decided over the weekend to take an older imgur post detailing the history of my #homelab and how it grew to be what it is, and turn it into a blog post on my own site instead. In the process, I added more detail and images to the post.

Enjoy!

@homelab

https://crabby.vellas.ca/posts/homelab-architecture-history/

BookStack v26.05.4 patches multiple security flaws including XSS, permission bypasses, and a remote code execution vector. Update ASAP if untrusted users have access to your instance. #selfhosted #homelab

https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/releases/tag/v26.05.4

Outgrew CasaOS on your ZimaBoard? Here is what breaks when running heavy Docker workloads and when it is time to migrate to Proxmox or Alpine Linux. #HomeLab #Docker #Proxmox

https://www.valtersit.com/guides/Zima/casaos-on-zimaboard-is-it-good-enough-for-power-users-in-2025/

I have a shelf of hardware I bought for projects I was definitely going to start.

A 10G switch for a network that's still gigabit. Two Pis for a cluster I never built. A stack of drives waiting on an enclosure I keep not ordering.

Buying the gear feels like progress. It's the one part of a project that doesn't ask me to actually make a decision or admit I might not finish.

What's sitting on your shelf right now?

#homelab

I installed #UbuntuTouch on an old Moto Z2/Nash I've had sitting around. I had originally looked at postmarketOS, but it didn't have a lot of things working on the phone, and that port looks abandoned.

The Nash port for UT is also abandoned but it has most things working. I'm pretty impressed with it. Not enough to make it a daily driver, without Signal support especially. However there is an app for that in newer versions of UT.

I hope to make this part of my #homelab, though I haven't decided what to put on it yet.

Right now it's mainly convinced me that I'd like to have a #Linux phone for my daily driver at some point. That would go a long way to divesting me from big tech.

Using #rss to get my daily dose of information from accounts and websites is just great. I use #miniflux
every morning to get all updates and read through. Works very well, is hosted in my #homelab, provides a calm environment (no notifications, popups, pre-sorted stuff), can scrape content and replaced endless scrolling, clicking and looking for topics that really interest me. I update it with more feeds whenever I come across an interesting one.

Awesome to have full control about content and infrastructure.

https://miniflux.app/

Nanoclaw v2.3.0 brings per-agent Slack apps, agent spawning from Slack, Codex CLI bump to 0.146.0 before GPT-5.4 retirement, and storage-neutral mailbox registries. Two breaking changes but migration paths are smooth. #selfhosted #homelab

https://github.com/nanocoai/nanoclaw/releases/tag/v2.3.0

Wrote up a little blog post about treens stuff. It's a bit light but frankly so is the project lol

https://arch.dog/bark/dynamically-naming-servers

#selfhosting #homelab #devopsish

📢 New #updates · 24 Aug #11.1

· Convoy v26.7.5 — Updated README badges and feature list alignment

All updates live on https://selfhost.directory

#homelab #docs #cli #docker

Now also available in English:
Adding a second DNS server to my homelab *should* have been straightforward. The build itself was. But the mistake right after it was not: a silently ignored API parameter, and the secondary answered internal names from the public DNS instead of protecting my split-horizon setup.

https://tim-bartel.de/secondary-dns-in-the-homelab-technitium/

#homelab #DNS #SelfHosted #Technitium

Hace unos años me compré una Raspberry Pi 4B (antes de que el precio de la RAM se disparase), con la idea de poner un https://pi-hole.net y alguna cosita más como https://syncthing.net que son útiles y que núnca están de más.

Otra cosa no, pero me gusta más hacer el tonto con un ordenador que a un tonto un lápiz, así que evidentemente la cosa se complicó.

Metí #ansible para automatizar toda la gestión de la máquina y luego poco a poco me fue apeteciendo meter más cositas:

- https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden que es una versión open sourcel servidor de Bitwarden que funciona muy bien.
- https://readeck.org que es una aplicación tipo "Read it later"
- Calibre Web, que usamos en casa para gestionar la colección de e-books (y para el que busco sustituto, por si alguien tiene ideas)
- https://bambuddy.cool para vigilar y gestionar la impresora 3D en remoto sin tener que depender de los servidores de Bambulab
- Docker swarm para gestionar todas las cositas que hay, porque al final no me encantaba la idea de un docker-compose sin más.
- ... y cada días más cosas.

Ese es un poco el problema del #homelabbing, que una vez empiezas...

Y claro, al Raspberry Pi aguanta bastante más de lo que pueda parecer. Pero todo tiene un límite.

El caso es que junto con todo esto hace unos 10 o 12 años, un ex-compañero de trabajo se mudaba y me vendió super barato un sobremesa con una placa mini-itx muy chulo que ha aguantado vivo hasta hoy. Solo hizo falta cambiarle la gráfica después de 4 o 5 años de uso, pero sigue vivo.

El problema? Que después de 4 o 5 mudanzas la caja se cae ya a pedazos. Así que con la ayuda de la impresora 3d me he puesto manos a la obra para renovar la caja y así unificar todos los cacharritos del #homelab en un solo sitio... y voy a documentarlo aquí todo un poco por si le sirve de inspiración a alguien más :)

Sigue ​👇

I think I updated my #Homelab Ceph cluster to the latest v19 release. Great success 🎉 this whole thing is so overpowered for my use case but it’s a lot of fun to play with

#Notes

Installed Mealie (recipe management) on my #homelab and I'm excited to transition all of my recipes off a Google Drive folder. Golly gosh it's got a good amount of features, well done to the developers.

https://docs.mealie.io/

#SelfHosted

I’m really excited because a mutual friend said they’re willing to give me their retired 2018 Mac Mini (which was originally used for music production). What’s extremely exciting is the fact it’s a maxed out model with 64GB DDR4 RAM (I’ve never owned a computer with over 16GB of RAM!) with 2TB SSD. Feeling extremely grateful for his generosity. 🥰

View note: https://burgeonlab.com/notes/2026/0824-0100

This is post 86 #100DaysToOffload and post 12 #blaugust2026.

#selfhosting #homelab #macmini #intelmac #mac

🚀 One-line installers for client and server. The client installer auto-detects your SSH key, builds the binary and hands you a ready server command; the server script installs Caddy, configures SSH tunneling and starts everything.

🌐 https://github.com/R44VC0RP/pgrok
#devops #homelab

Ich habe am Wochenende wieder mal am #HomeLab geschraubt und dabei gleich zwei neue persönliche Software Projekte angeschoben. 🤓

Hab dafür mal #Codex Code ausprobiert und muss sagen, ich find die Ergebnisse teilweise besser als mit Claude. Die UX finde ich sogar besser. So Kleinigkeiten wie dass ich eine vernünftige Prompt-Queue haben kann und ich per Default nicht die aktuell laufende Session steuere, finde ich enorm wichtig. Leider ist die Default-Tastenkombi genau konträr zu der bei Claude 🙄

Changement d’alimentation et passage sur rail DIN pour les raspberry pi ! #HomeLab

💾 Unraid 8 schimbă macazul: Renunță la Slackware în favoarea arhitecturii uCore bazate pe Fedora!

Publicația Linuxiac raportează o schimbare istorică pentru popularul sistem de operare comercial destinat serverelor NAS și meciurilor de acasă (Home Lab). Odată cu lansarea viitoarei versiuni Unraid 8, compania Lime Technology va abandona baza clasică Slackware (pe care a folosit-o încă de la înființare) și va trece la uCore, un sistem de operare imutabil dezvoltat de proiectul Universal Blue și bazat pe Fedora CoreOS.

✨ Punctele cheie ale acestei tranziții majore:

🔄 De la Slackware la o arhitectură imutabilă (uCore / OCI):
• Decizia de a părăsi Slackware vine pe fondul dificultăților de a menține un sistem de operare vechi în ritmul rapid al tehnologiilor moderne de stocare, virtualizare și containere.
• Trecerea la uCore (un derivat din Fedora CoreOS) aduce o structură imutabilă, în care sistemul de operare este livrat și actualizat ca o imagine de container OCI (similară cu un sistem de fișiere read-only atomic).

🛡️ Actualizări atomice și stabilitate maximă:
• Actualizările de sistem vor deveni complet atomice: în caz de eșec al unei actualizări sau dacă o versiune nouă cauzează probleme, sistemul se poate întoarce (rollback) instantaneu la starea anterioară printr-o simplă repornire.
• Elimină riscul ca pachetele parțial instalate sau configurările corupte să blocheze pornirea serverului NAS.

🚀 Suport hardware modern și drivere la zi:
• Bazându-se pe ecosistemul Fedora/Red Hat, Unraid va beneficia automat de cele mai noi versiuni de kernel Linux, drivere video (NVIDIA, Intel, AMD), suport avansat pentru stocări NVMe/ZFS și integrare mai ușoară pentru hardware-ul recent.

🐳 Ecosistem mai bun pentru Docker & Virtualizare:
• Trecerea la un core bazat pe containerizarea modernă oferă o gestionare mai eficientă a resurselor pentru containerele Docker, mediul KVM/QEMU și accesul direct la passthrough-ul de resurse (GPU/HBA).

📌 Ce înseamnă asta pentru utilizatori?

Lime Technology promite o tranziție cât mai lină pentru utilizatorii existenti: configurațiile de pe stick-urile USB, array-urile de stocare, containerele Docker și masinile virtuale vor fi migrate automat în noul mediu Unraid 8 bazat pe uCore.

O etapă istorică care modernizează radical temelia Unraid pentru următorul deceniu! 🚀

#Unraid #Unraid8 #NAS #Fedora #uCore #Slackware #HomeLab #Linuxiac #TechNews #OpenSource

Obsidian LiveSync 1.0.17 brings proper i18n for settings UI, smarter P2P message sizing to fix fragmentation issues, and a self-hosted Coturn Compose starter for TURN relay deployments. Big quality of life wins. #selfhosted #homelab

https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync/releases/tag/1.0.17

Soluciones de maestro chasquilla: como mi nueva placa no tiene tarjeta gráfica integrada, reciclé una vieja MSI Geforce 210, pero el ventilador original es muy ruidoso para un servidor en casa, lo.cambié por uno noctua de 60 mm. Que es practicamente inaudible. También cambié el disipador. 🤓

#Fediñoñeando #Homelab #Hardware #Selfhosting

Wer noch ein Tool sucht für SSH und Remote Desktop - ich kann Termix nur empfehlen.

Aktuell schnelle Entwicklung und läuft bei mir Stabil:

https://github.com/termix-ssh/termix

#ssh #opensource #selfhosting #homelab