I Tried Omarchy Linux as My Home Lab Workstation This Weekend. Here’s What Happened.
I tend to spend a ridiculous amount of time in the home lab and working with various operating systems. There are so many great OS’s that I love working with…
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I Thought My Home Lab Was Self-Hosted Until I Pulled the Internet
One of the reasons I think most of us love self-hosting our resources is the control that it gives us in our environment and over our data. I can host…
9 Home Lab Metrics I Watch Before Something Goes Wrong
There are definitely certain things to watch when it comes to monitoring your home lab for helping to know if there are things that need your attention. For a long…
8 Home Lab Services I Would Run on Bare Metal Instead of Virtualizing
Virtualizing things is one of the coolest ways to run workloads both in production or in the home lab. I know most of the time, I don’t think about virtualization…
8 ARM64 Home Lab Mistakes I’d Avoid in 2026
I think ARM64 has become super interesting for home labs in 2026. Everyone it seems is looking for ways to cut down on the cost of electricity spend in the…
8 Home Lab Things I Stopped Doing the Old Way
It is amazing to me just how much things have changed just in the last couple of years. Not even more than that. We have seen a major hypervisor basically…
9 OPNsense Settings I Change for Every Home Lab Firewall
When it comes to free and open source firewalls in the home lab, there are a few choices, but many home labbers tend to settle on OPNsense for its wide…
Back to Home Lab School 2026: 7 Learning Projects to Start This Weekend
It is that time of year again where school is starting for the kiddos and everyone is talking about back to school. If you have a home lab there is…
7 Proxmox Memory Tweaks That Make Your RAM Go Further
RAM is one of those things that can disappear in a home lab VERY quickly, especially if you don’t pay attention to how it is allocated across the board. In…
7 Home Lab Services I Always Give a Static IP Address
DHCP is one of the services that just makes network management much easier. You don’t have to worry when you connect a laptop, smartphone or some other device to your…
