Tag: Proxmox

Home Assistant 2026.11: The Marketplace Arrives

6 November 20266 November 2026

November’s Home Assistant update is here, and Frenck wasn’t messing about. They’re calling 2026.11 the biggest release they’ve ever done, which usually means either wonderful new toys or three hours…

An Android tablet displaying a minimalist Home Assistant dashboard on a cluttered wooden workbench at night, lit by a warm desk lamp.

Escaping the Proprietary Dashboard Trap: My First Few Days with Kiosk Satellite

10 October 202610 October 2026

If you are anything like me, your desk is probably a bit of a disaster zone, cluttered with random stuff, notebooks, and spare screens that beep, blink, or stare back…

A home server rack filled with networking gear and messy cables next to a wooden desk with a coffee mug.

Why Big Tech’s War on Game Servers Should Terrify Every Home Lab Enthusiast

3 September 2026

Coming across the video “They’re Banning Your Home Servers” from creator Loyal Moses discussing the California legislative battle over the “Protect Our Games Act” (AB 1921) immediately caught my eye,…

A home lab desk setup showing three stacked Dell OptiPlex small form factor PCs, a Star Trek mug on a coaster, a keyboard, mouse, and dual monitors displaying terminal windows and code, with a bookshelf and window in the background.

The Stack: A Tour of My Privacy-First Home Lab

31 August 202631 August 2026

I’ve never been terribly good at letting commercial cloud providers hold onto my life. Between wanting actual ownership of my data, a lingering distrust of corporate telemetry, and the sheer…

Terminal output from 'docker stats' showing CPU and memory usage for the Rybbit analytics container stack including ClickHouse, Postgres, and Redis.

I Added Analytics to the Blog: Here’s Exactly What I’m Collecting

9 August 20269 August 2026

I’ve spent years shouting about privacy. And now, I’ve installed a tracker. I know. The irony is thick enough to cut, and the hypocrisy probably looks huge from where you’re…

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My 3-2-1 Backup Strategy: Why I Swapped MEGA S4 for Scaleway S3

4 May 20264 May 2026

A 3-2-1 backup rule is the industry standard for data survival, dictated by the logic that any single point of failure is a guaranteed disaster waiting to happen. It requires…

Minimalist vector illustration of a home lab server and a closed laptop on a desk in a dim room. A translucent floating update list shows one item highlighted in amber with a matching warning triangle icon above it.

The Update Conundrum

1 May 20261 May 2026

I started my home lab in 2021. It began with some basic Home Assistant automations and, over the last few years, has spiralled into a proper stack of VMs and…

A technical isometric illustration showing three stacked layers of virtualisation: a physical motherboard base, a middle layer of solid blocks for Virtual Machines, and a top layer of glowing wireframe cubes for containers.

Hypervisor, VM, LXC and Docker: A Simple Guide

27 April 202627 April 2026

When you first get into self-hosting, the jargon can hit you all at once. Hypervisors, VMs, LXC, Docker/Podman. People talk about them as if they are interchangeable, but they are…

Server racks with glowing blue lights and a digital memory usage graph overlay, illustrating Proxmox memory management and optimisation.

Proxmox RAM Mismatch: Joining Dots with the QEMU Guest Agent

2 April 20263 April 2026

If you’ve ever stared at your Proxmox summary and wondered why it claims your VM is eating 98% of its RAM while your internal dashboard says it’s only at 40%,…