About
About me
I’m just a regular guy who enjoys tinkering with computers and other tech related stuff. I’ve been working in logistics most of my adult life. Currently, working in fuel delivery.
About this site
I envision this site as being a place for me to post a bunch of things that cross my mind. As well, as serving as my home-labs documentation hub.
- The site is hosted on: Linode1
- Utilizing the cheapest tier
- Operating System is: Arch Linux
- Web server: nginx
- Static Site Generator: Hugo
About “dev” env & Home-lab
Development environment might be a huge stretch, since I don’t typically do coding. However, with this site written in Markdown and built using Hugo, so close enough. I was using a fairly nice desktop, but it is currently out of commission. With that in mind I’m using a laptop and a dock so that I’m not stuck on a tiny screen.
My home-lab is pretty modest in my opinion.
It’s primarily utilized by girlfriend and I for watching movies on Plex.
However, I’m seriously looking into switching to Jellyfin.
There are a few other things I’m working on getting setup. Such as a camera system that doesn’t rely on the cloud. As some of the other services I’d like to utilize get setup the content on this site should grow. However, I don’t have a ton of time to work play with the homelab.
Hardware
“dev” Box
- System: Lenovo ThinkBook 13s G2 ITL
- Windows 11 – Insider Preview (Canary Channel)
- Intel i5-1135G7
- 500 GB SKHynix SSD
- 16 GB LPDDR4
- Windows 11 – Insider Preview (Canary Channel)
- Accessories / Peripherals
- dock - j5 create
- Model: JCD381
- Monitor
- ASUS PA278QV
- DELL S2417DG
- Keyboard
- SteelSeries Apex 7 TKL
- Mouse
- Corsair Scimitar Pro RGB
- dock - j5 create
NAS
- System: SuperMicro 6028U-TR4T
- Truenas Scale – 22.12.3.3
- 2X Intel E5-2650v4
- about 60 TiB usable storage
- 64 GB PC4-2400T Memory
- Truenas Scale – 22.12.3.3
This system really is nothing more than storage. It’s shared to all my systems for ease of use. It does have two “Applications” installed.
- Tdarr (just a node)
- Glances (not working how I’d hoped but haven’t removed)
Server
- System: AsRock Rack 1u4LW-X470
- ArchLinux
- AMD 5950X
- 64 GB 2666MHZ RDIMM PC4-21300 ECC
- ArchLinux
This system is where the magic happens for my homelab. It’s got a bunch of stuff running on it. As I get documentation articles posted. What it has running will be updated.
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