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20 August 2026

  • 19:0019:00, 20 August 2026 The assessments are here (hist | edit) [811 bytes] Lynn Macey (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The software landscape is vast. It is a little like being in a candy store the size of a Walmart. With hypervisors like Proxmox and TrueNAS it is rediculously easy to sping up virtual machines or launch software with docker. What used to take hours installing an OS and configuring a physical resource only takes minutes. Installing software used to be its own hurdle. Getting it to work on you specific combination of hardware and OS could literally take days. =The tools...")
  • 18:3318:33, 20 August 2026 The Homelab Stack History (hist | edit) [2,312 bytes] Lynn Macey (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=The early days= Like most systems administrators, I was loath to throw anything away that wasn't broken. Time and time again, having that odd cable, odd peripheral or obscure tool saved me a lot of time and the companies money. Even before I retired, I couldn't keep it all. this eventually led to major runs to the e-waste facility. It is interesting that those places tend to come and go pretty frequently. From observation, it appears that the have an imbalance between...")

17 August 2026

16 August 2026

3 August 2026

  • 14:4914:49, 3 August 2026 Permanent IP Assignments (hist | edit) [2,271 bytes] Lynn Macey (talk | contribs) (Created page with "IP addresses define the neighborhood. They come in two forms, static and dynamic. Statis ones are assigned to a machine, or VM and don't change. They are normally used for machines that provide known services that are expected to be found at known places. Dynamic ones are used for things that come and go like user machines, IOT devies and phones. All of the addresses in the normal LAN in the network start with 192.168.86. Only the last number in the address is listed i...")

29 July 2026

  • 16:3016:30, 29 July 2026 Home Server Applications to Try (hist | edit) [2,521 bytes] Lynn Macey (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The following are self-hosting applications that look interesting; *[https://get.kiwix.org/en/solutions/applications/download-options/ Kwix] Self host the web *[https://github.com/liketrek/TREK Trek Travel Planner] *[https://github.com/C4illin/ConvertX File Converter Swiss Army Knife] *[https://www.igorslab.de/en/homelab-basics-technitium-dns/ Technetium - The Better Pi-Hole] *[https://github.com/0xERR0R/blocky Blocky - Pi-Hole Alternative] *[https://github.com/dani-gar...")

12 July 2026

  • 11:3611:36, 12 July 2026 Chico IOT Chico internet of Things (hist | edit) [1,580 bytes] Lynn Macey (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The hardest thing about smart devices in the apartment is remembering what phone application controls each one. This page collects the information into one place. Unless otherwise noted, the devices are all linked to Google Home ===Bonita's Bathroom=== The large nightlight is controlled with the Smart Life app as "Smart Candle Light Bulb". The name in the Google Home space is: '''Bathroom''' ===Kitchen=== In the kitchen I put a light tape on top of the upper cabinet...")

11 July 2026

  • 17:0717:07, 11 July 2026 Chico3 (hist | edit) [394 bytes] Lynn Macey (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{vm | chico3 | host = pve | type = qemu | processor = i440fx x 4 | ram = 8GB | disk = fast2:vm-103-disk-0 /500 GB | description = Utility server | ip = 192.168.86.33 | os = Ubuntu | version = 22.04 }} {{note | Dockge: bazarr, jellyfin, lidarr, medusa, paperless, portainer1, prowlarr, qbittorrent, radarr, readarr, sonarr, wiki2 }}")

9 July 2026

6 July 2026

  • 17:5917:59, 6 July 2026 Extensions (hist | edit) [1,011 bytes] Lynn Macey (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The following local extensions are loaded on this wiki: *[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Display_Title DisplayTitle] This needs to be explored a bit. Allows *[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps Maps] This is used to display map on the web site. The published installation instructions don't work. I finally settled on adding the following to the require-dev section of the composer.json file in the home directory: "mediawiki/maps": "13.0.1" The 13...")

28 June 2026

13 June 2026

  • 16:5816:58, 13 June 2026 Videos to Categorize (hist | edit) [52,677 bytes] Lynn Macey (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Basically, collected mostly from Facebook [https://fb.watch/HFvuFhC_LM/] [https://fb.watch/HGF-tbBBiH/] [https://www.facebook.com/reel/1760544665314279] [https://fb.watch/HGHj84cFOn/] [https://www.facebook.com/reel/1647499243048778] [https://www.facebook.com/reel/2088264025366132] [https://fb.watch/HGIoqIjN-Z/] [https://fb.watch/HGIAocVseH/] [https://www.facebook.com/reel/1625957328512262] [https://www.facebook.com/reel/2355498784978802] [https://fb.watch/HGJ-S36wK4/] [h...")

4 June 2026

31 May 2026