How I Back Up My Mom’s PC Over VPN — Without the Cloud (or Headaches)
Let’s be honest: keeping family members’ devices backed up is something many of us in tech mean to do — but often don’t. Between the complexity of cloud solutions, the…
Patch Me If You Can: Keeping Debian VMs Updated with Ansible (Without Losing My Weekend)
I have around 12 Debian-based VMs running in my homelab. A while ago, I used to update them all manually — one by one. SSH into each machine, run apt…
📡 Shipping Logs Like a Pro: Fluent Bit Meets Ansible in My Homelab
By now, my little homelab has grown into a small but mighty fleet of virtual machines — almost a dozen of them are humming along nicely. But with more services…
🛡️ Locking Down Your USB Drive on Linux – the Geek Way
So I’ve decided to stash an external USB drive — fully encrypted with AES-256 — at a family member’s or friend’s place, just to have an offsite backup of all…
iptables, Protectli & Paranoia: Basic Segmentation for the Home Lab
At home, in my homelab, I run multiple internal networks.There’s one for trusted client devices, and another that’s less trusted — kind of like a DMZ. The DMZ hosts those…
Hello World !
Hi, I’m Raphael – a 46-year-old open source enthusiast from Germany. My digital heart beats for GNU/Linux, IT security, and all things electromobility – especially as we cruise into the…