I didn't see a brief description for this community, so please excuse me if I'm off topic.

Small victories: I set up my first containerized WordPress application with the whole nine yards. Object cache, DB, PHP, web server in separate containers connected together by a simple and readable compose file. The task was easy. What was hard was changing the way I think about running a server as this monolithic thing. True, it's all on one physical server in the end, but the changes in mindset are becoming more difficult for me as I get older. I had always hated Docker as this wasteful oxymoronic "serverless" thing, but then I saw how I could use it to control dev environments. From there I've started to understand when the tool makes sense. For the first time, I feel like I get it.

I moved from Maryland to Colorado this summer and left my homelab on Maryland after begging my dad to have it in his house temporarily. I'm getting a replacement system up and running in Colorado using my old gaming PC. I'm moving away from enterprise gear to cut down on noise, heat, and power usage, but I'm going to miss the insane amount of RAM, ECC RAM, and nice hotswap HDD cases.

This week I switched my home assistant system from a raspberry pi to a VM under proxmox, so I started turning that raspberry pi into a display for my kitchen. I'm playing around with MagicMirror, but it doesn't do everything that I want, and I'm more comfortable writing Python than JavaScript, so I think I'm going to make a home assistant dashboard instead (I'll definitely need to make some custom integrations).

I'm also going to make the display a remote rhasspy system for the rhasspy server I'm adding to home assistant now that it's not running on a pi. If I can get rhasspy working well, this will get me one step closer to degoogling my life. All that's left after that is trying to setup my own invidious instance or using yt-dlp to get YouTube videos into jellyfin, and switching to grapheneOS on my phone and sandboxing Google maps. I unfortunately still need Google Maps when I occasionally drive. OSM is great for biking and walking, but it's not there for driving yet.

I have been looking at a silly project, totally not needed properly not worth it…. Of taking an old Mac mini G4 and installing an old Ubuntu os on it, then running old game servers for maximum retro loading times and keeping it in a old computer for the same reason but I think choosing a powerpc is the mistake….

Otherwise I have set overseer and starting to migrate people to Jellyfin

My UPS just died :( so I’m trying to repair it. It start beeping like it’s overloaded even with no load attached. I’m suspecting an issue around the current transformer ADC.

Apart from that, I have a TuringPi 2 loaded with SOQuartz boards to start up, I was thinking of trying kubernetes (k0s) to have some resilience for the base infra (dns resolver, dns root zone for the home domain, metrics) but I need a couple of days to start…