This is mainly as a brain dump of the things that currently fascinate and captivate my attention.
A sort of journal for learning tech, self-hosting, homelab, privacy and security, sustainability, self sufficiency, and other interest…
Moving on - my humble homelab with naming convention taken from towns and place of the old Ultima games:
“Britannia”
Dell Optiplex Micro 7010 Desktop daily driver with Fedora 41 - I think its a nice HS:4 device
“Sorsaria”
Purpose-built poor man’s with real ECC support for TrueNAS Scale Server, its apps, and SMB network share
- AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G
- 64 GB of NEMIX ECC UDIMM
- Asrock B550 Phantom Gaming ITX
- Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1TB
- 2x 8GB HDD (Ironwolf and Toshiba)
- 2x 4GB HDD (Ironwolf)
“Skara Brae”
Was my bare metal gaming PC but repurposed as Proxmox VE Server for gaming VM and for future local only AI LLM ambitions
- AMD Ryzen 5700X3D
- 64 GB G.Skill non-ECC RAM
- Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro Wifi
- Gigabyte 7900XT Gaming OC
- Samsung 500GB 980 M.2 NVME SSD
- SK Hynix 512GB M.2 NVME SSD
“Cove”
My old TrueNAS server now repurposed as my kid’s gaming rig, running Fedora 41
- Intel I3-12100F
- Asus Prime B660 M-A Wifi D4
- 32 GB Non-ECC RAM, Corsair Dominator i think
- Sapphire Pulse 7700XT Radeon
- 500GB WD Black SN770 SSD
“Serpent’s Hold”
Protectli VP2420 running pfSense CE 2.7.2
“Trinsic”
Asus Vivobook Pro 15 OLED - my laptop daily driver I thought I’d actually use the Nvidia GPU for gaming. No time sadly. Fedora Silverblue - its a pain to update. I’m considering changing it to vanilla Fedora Workstation or learn distrobox like I should. Upgraded the stock SSD (its the 2nd SSD in Skara Brae)
- Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1TB
“Olympia”
Asus Vivobook Pro 14 OLED - My old daily driver, now my spouse’s work laptop running Fedora Linux
“Moonglow”
Odroid H4+ TrueNAS Scale backup replication target machine for Sorsaria
- 500GB Crucial P3 NVME SSD
- 32GB DDR5 4800MT/s Crucial RAM
- 12TB HGST Ultrastar He
“Buccaneer’s Den”
OG 256 GB Steam Deck… I should actually put ROMs in it to make it live up to its name… Someday…
“New Magincia”
Raspberry Pi 5 8GB for a “command center” kind of device that I havent really conceptualized yet. Its powered down right now looking at me judgingly…
- 500GB Crucial P3 NVME SSD
- Argon NEO 5 M.2 NVME PCIE case
“Vesper”
Pixel 9 Pro flashed with Graphene OS, current daily driver.
“Yew”
Old Pixel 6A flashed with Graphene OS, my old daily driver phone.
Other machines that will not be named…
Spouse likes fruit branded computers and phones but slowly she is hating it…