Two Things My SSDs Were Missing: TRIM After BitLocker, and a Write Cache My HPE Server Quietly Switched Off
HP3, my HPE MicroServer Gen10 Plus v2, is back on Debian 13 with OpenZFS. Why it left…
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Germany Only: Geo-Fencing SSH with nftables and Ansible (and What My Logs Said About Bots and Readers)
SSH on a non-standard port, key-only, fail2ban - and still 16 login attempts per hour from all…
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Two Minutes Forty-Five: My First Nextcloud App Update via Ansible (and the Guard Rail I Added Just Before)
Confession time: the production Nextcloud from the migration battle log has been running on K3s for a…
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The iLO Knows the Temperature, But Not Yesterday’s: Building a Heat History for My Homelab Rack
It started with a simple question on a lazy afternoon: how warm are my three servers, actually?…
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My Own Little Certificate Authority: AD CS, Auto-Enrollment and Goodbye to “Your Connection Is Not Private”
My homelab has three domain controllers, two clients, three iLO management boards and, until last week, exactly…
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