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Homelab

Open, Repairable Homelab Hardware with 45HomeLab

·4 mins

I have a Dell PowerEdge R720 sitting in a colocation facility a few miles from my apartment, and every time it spins up it sounds like a jet engine for a solid 45 seconds. It is six to eight years old, I pay for the rack space every month, and I flat out refuse to hand Dell a thousand dollars just to unlock the IPMI port. Meanwhile I have 3 gig symmetrical Google Fiber at home and the colo caps me at one gig. So the same question keeps nagging at me: why is my server living somewhere else?

CIQ at Open Source Summit 2026: Minneapolis Recap

·2 mins
I spent three days on the expo floor at Open Source Summit 2026 in Minneapolis with Howard Van Der Wal and Stephen Simpson, and it was one of the better events we have done this year.

Keep It Techie | The IT Guy Show 023

·1 min
Josh Lacey of Keep It Techie and I break down the real cost-benefit of running a homelab and whether it’s time to bring the lab home.

Bootc in the Wild | Fedora Podcast Ep. 054

·2 mins
Episode 54 of the Fedora Podcast is out, and this one digs into something I am genuinely curious about for my own homelab: what does bootc look like when someone is actually running it day to day…

Run AI Locally on Fedora with Ollama: Live Ops 005

·3 mins
I wanted to run AI locally on Fedora using an Nvidia GPU I had sitting in my Dell PowerEdge R730 — and an hour and a half later, I actually got it working. Here’s what the road looked like.

Building a Golden Image | Live Ops 003

·2 mins
The goal was simple: build a reusable Fedora golden image homelab template I can clone whenever I need a new server. Nothing about it was simple.

RHEL Hypervisor Homelab Setup: Live Ops 003

·2 mins
A Dell PowerEdge R730 that’s been sitting in the rack collecting dust finally has a job: and this stream is the whole messy process of giving it one.