Self-Hosting

Old laptops beat a Raspberry Pi 5 for homelab use: better CPU, more RAM, silent, and a built-in battery UPS, all while drawing 8-15W at idle.

Build and enroll Unified Kernel Images with automatic Secure Boot signing for systemd-boot, retiring fiddly bootloader configuration on Linux.

Choose NVMe SSDs for homelab use. Covers Gen5 vs Gen4, TLC vs QLC endurance, drive picks with benchmarks, capacity planning, and health monitoring.

Batch migrate GitHub to Gitea in one pass: migtea diffs both accounts and moves every missing repo, with wikis, LFS, and issues, from a terminal UI.

Thunderbolt 5 eGPU enclosures for GPU compute on Linux. Compares Razer Core X V2 and Sonnet Breakaway Box 850 T5, with setup and benchmarks.

Run any Linux distro as a POSIX shell wrapper with full device access, home directory, GPU passthrough, and SSH keys. Setup is instant and needs no VM.