In an effort to balance power efficiency with my tendency to hoard old hardware, I decided to move my overpowered Pi-hole setup from a Mac Mini to a Raspberry Pi 2. (Yes, the Pi 2! A true relic from the past, but still kicking.) Everything was going smoothly — static IP, hostname set, network configured — until I ran …

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Shoutout to derekbit for saving my cluster from a tragic post-power-outage existential crisis. My entire homelab went down for a few hours, and Longhorn wasn’t exactly in a hurry to come back. More details on the saga can be found here and in this lifesaving comment. Tools used stern: Stern allows you to tail multiple …

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I decided to push my Kubernetes manifests to GitHub because running Git locally on the same k3s cluster as ArgoCD seemed like asking for trouble. I mean, what happens if something goes wrong? Suddenly, you’re locked out of your repository, and your applications just sit there looking sad, like ‘Hey, I need a home!’ …

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