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Intro I’ve been eyeing GL.iNet’s compact travel routers for a while, so when they offered to send me a Mango 2 (GL-MG1300) unit to review, I jumped at the chance to run it through my homelab. In this post, I cover its performance, ease of use, and practical homelab deployment scenarios. …

Intro In my homelab, I run an Ubuntu gaming/AI VM with PCIe pass-through of an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060. After stumbling on r/overclocking and seeing people get great results overclocking Blackwell cards, I wanted to see how far I could push mine. Windows users have been getting huge gains on RTX …

Intro I run a Windows Server 2022 VM in my homelab as my primary Active Directory Domain Controller. It handles LDAP identity for Authelia, Windows, and even Linux (through FreeIPA). Because my entire homelab’s authentication has no redundancy, I wanted to set up an offsite replica (technically an …

Intro My homelab consists of a monolithic Proxmox host, and even though I do have weekly backups, I wanted to strengthen my homelab’s resiliency, without spending more than I already do. In my search, I came across Oracle’s always free tier of VPS, running linux on arm. The first thing I did after …

Intro I recently acquired a Trashcan Mac Pro to use as a standalone dev machine. It has dual AMD FirePro D700 GPUs, and since I’ve been itching to try out locally hosted models, I ran llama.cpp to see what the performance looked like. There have been very few posts about it so I figured …

Intro I have been using Hugo to build my personal website for a few years now. I love how easy it is to use and how customizable it is through themes, modules, and templates. I am always looking for ways to improve my site and make it more performant. Over time, I have accumulated a few …