Anyone who runs a homelab sooner or later has to deal with Murphy's law and its most fearsome ally: the sudden blackout. Under the table in my study there is a faithful Lenovo ThinkCentre M920t with Proxmox VE. Several VMs and several LXCs are running on it: da Home Read more
Those who work with audio, produces music or manages a home server, he knows well the satisfaction of automating complex processes. I recently decided to complement my trusty automatic mastering setup (Matching) a system for separating audio tracks (Stem Separation), with the aim of extracting voices, battery, Read more
In the last article I mentioned in passing my current setup on the laptop: Only Linux in the GNOME version. Why did I choose a less "mainstream" distribution than the usual ones? After several months of daily use between browsing, Writing, blog management and some terminal sessions, the time has come Read more
If you've been following me for a while, you know that I have a weakness for efficiency applied to everyday life. Some time ago I already told you about Boomaga, that amazing open source software that serves as “virtual printer” and allows you to do spectacular things, how to merge multiple documents into Read more
Have you ever had to set up a local DNS server (come AdGuard Home o Pi-hole) to clean your network of ads and trackers, see everything work wonderfully and then, after a few days, suddenly find yourself without internet? Maybe some devices navigate, others show the classic warning “Connected network, internet Read more
One day you wake up, you look at an old device that has been sitting in a drawer for many years – in my case an IP camera with a glorious but stubborn HiSilicon hi3510 chip – and you decide that the time has come to do things right. You tell yourself: “No more proprietary clouds, Read more
We have reached the last chapter of our Btrfs trilogy. After securing your data and scheduling backups, today we talk about how to optimize every single byte on the disk. If you think that space is a finite resource, Btrfs will change your mind thanks to transparent compression and Read more
In the previous post we saw how to make our system resilient “on site” using RAID and snapshot. But if the PC explodes or the server is stolen, local snapshots are useless. Today we make the leap in quality: Let's learn how to use Btrfs Send and Receive. Forget rsync e Read more
If you run a Linux server or workstation, the file system is not just a place where “park” file, but your first line of defense against data corruption. Today we talk about Btrfs, un file system copy-on-write (CoW) which offers native tools to manage integrity and redundancy. Read more
Anyone who runs a DIY server or home NAS has found themselves in that panic situation at least once “from missing label”, staring four identical drives into the case and praying you don't take out the wrong one during a migration or failure. If you have a mixed setup with a pool Read more