JJJozzieTechinjjozzietech.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 14 min readThe error pointed at the GPU. The culprit was the HBA. — a Proxmox passthrough recoveryThe plan looked textbook. PCIe passthrough an NVIDIA RTX A4000 from a Proxmox 8 host into an Ubuntu 24.04 VM, giving a Filecoin sealing worker direct GPU access for the compute phases that need it. VT00
CDChristoph Dieckinslashgordon.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 6 min readThe Cloud in a CabinetIn Part 1 I covered the hardware: how the Lenovo M920q replaced my overwhelmed Synology as a compute node. The hardware is in place, Proxmox is humming. Now for the real question: how do the services 00
CDChristoph Dieckinslashgordon.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 6 min readBuilding a Home Lab with a Lenovo ThinkCentre M920qIt all started innocently enough. A little Jellyfin for the movie collection here, a small Gitea instance for my code there. My Synology DS223 handled the job without complaint. But once you get a tas00
JJJozzieTechinjjozzietech.hashnode.dev·Aug 13 · 12 min readRecovering a ZFS pool with a missing RAIDZ1 vdev — without wiping a single diskThe same outage that suspended the first pool also took down a second pool on the same box in a different, harder way. That's the piece the suspended-pool recovery closed by pointing at. This is that 00
JJJozzieTechinjjozzietech.hashnode.dev·Aug 6 · 9 min readAfter a TrueNAS ISO reinstall — the two things that broke that no one warned me aboutThe TrueNAS SCALE machine that runs my SMB shares was in trouble. Windows clients had stopped seeing the shares reliably — intermittent at first, then completely. When I dropped to the shell to check,00
JGJosh Greeninjoshgreen.hashnode.dev·Aug 5 · 6 min readTwo Mirrors, No Masters: How My Homelab Survived ItselfI serve six public websites, including a search engine for a few hundred thousand 3D-printable models, from two mismatched mini-servers in two different corners of the same city. The design goal was b10
SSSunny Sainiinvillxn.hashnode.dev·Aug 3 · 29 min readCase File #1: Preparing the Crime SceneHello, Analysts and Attackers 👋 I'm Sunny - I love spending my time into breaking things, figuring out how they work, and then learning how to detect them. Welcome to our series "The Detection Engine00
Cchristoph_baierinquollix.hashnode.dev·Aug 2 · 3 min readWhy Is Self-Hosting Still So Hard? Professionally, I work as a software developer. I also value privacy, which is why I decided to host my own open-source services at home. While I had some system administration experience, this was my00
Ddelusional-2005inad-deepdives.hashnode.dev·Jul 24 · 6 min read# Building My First Active Directory Lab (And Everything That Went Wrong)When I started my cybersecurity roadmap this summer, "build an AD lab" was just one line item on a checklist. I didn't expect it to become one of the most educational — and most humbling — parts of th00
JJJozzieTechinjjozzietech.hashnode.dev·Jul 23 · 9 min readTwo TrueNAS servers, one rack — the CORE-and-SCALE split I never designedTwo TrueNAS servers. Same rack. One's on CORE, one's on SCALE. If someone asked me why, the honest answer isn't a design decision. It's a series of arrivals — one workload trigger at a time, each land00
