LINUX Unplugged 646: The Great Holiday Homelab Special 🎄
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Dec 21, 2025 Gather 'round for a festive celebration of home labs! The hosts dive into a contest showcasing everything from budget-friendly gems to chaotic hardware disasters. Highlights include remarkable self-hosted setups, clever repurposing tips, and creative autonomous AI projects. They award the 'Tiny Titan' title to an innovative Raspberry Pi usage and crown 'Firefighting Dad' for best overall home lab. Plus, get inspired by energy-efficient designs and extravagant builds, with community stories that spark creativity and fun!
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E-Waste Powers Practical Home Labs
- Many home labs repurpose e-waste and free employer hardware to build powerful, cost-effective setups.
- Owners emphasize practicality and gradual upgrades over buying brand-new enterprise gear.
Back Up Configs And Data Separately
- Keep configuration and container definitions in Git so you can rebuild after mistakes.
- Store persistent files on a separate file server to enable recovery after accidental deletions.
Private CA And A Portainer Oops
- Dark Owl runs a private certificate authority and an isolated domain home.darkowl using step-ca.
- He accidentally deleted his only Portainer server but recovered from Git and file server backups.