#synologynas — Public Fediverse posts

In this quick bite episode, I discuss my home lab, the concept of a home lab and what it entails to keep one running.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, July 24 2026.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Synology DS920+
• Raspberry Pi
• DIY TRMNL
• The Subvert.fm collection of potential music for this show
• The Subvert.fm collection of already played music for this show
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Join the EGC Discord server
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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On this show, I play a song from Doctor Deathray; as I was upgrading the capacity of my Synology NAS I discovered I didn't need it; don't enable the trash can on your Time Machine drives on a NAS; I am using my extra capacity to self-host Mastodon; running a one person Mastodon instance is easier than I predicted; I love NTFY for notifications; I hate Apprise for notifications; I bought a Trezor hardware wallet to hold all my weird pockets of crypto; the UX of using crypto for anything sucks; Obsidian starts slow on my Android phone; Quick Draft for Obsidian solves a big problem for me.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, January 30 2026.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Doctor Deathray's Bandcamp
• My self-hosted Mastodon server
• Ellijay Makerspace
• Fediback, a seemingly abandoned but still working Mastodon backup tool
• NTFY
• Apprise
• Trezor Crypto Wallets
• The exact Trezor wallet I bought
• Obsidian
• Quick Draft for Obsidian
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.

@estevez @betoniusz I'm following a similar path: jonsbo n2 with an Intel n305 motherboard from cwwk (Topton n18 would also work).

I haven't decided the OS yet. #TruenasScale or a build it myself approach with #Debian...

Stealing disks from your #synologynas sounds like music to my ears.

#homelab #selfhosting