My commutes are always an adventure I’ve been commuting between Almere and Amsterdam for over 28 years now, and some stretches of road just never seem to get safer. The speed limits are clear, the lanes are marked, and yet people still drive too fast, follow too closely, or simply don’t pay attention. Over time, I’ve learned where the “hot spots” are – places where something stupid is almost guaranteed to happen at least once a week. Since I drive a leased car, the financial side doesn’t worry me too much – any damage is handled automatically. I’ve had a […]
The more you tinker, the more you learn
I fixed another issue that popped up with my homelab. Recently my main Proxmox node (Node 1, a Lenovo M70q running Proxmox VE 9.x) started randomly dropping off the network. When it happened I experienced: Web UI dead SSH unreachable All LXC’s went offline But my VM kept running and stayed reachable from the LAN and outside Only a hard reboot via the physical console would bring the node back. Not good! So tonight I was set on getting to the root cause of these hangups and fix it. Root Cause: Intel e1000e Offload Bug As it turns out […]
Homelab shenanigans
Some more homelab shenanigans After setting up my to Proxmox nodes (not a cluster yet: I am still exploring how to set this up) and messing around a bit with it, I went full-out. After all; if you have the hardware why not use it? So what have I set up so far? So, what did we accomplish so far? Well a bit of a list actually. It cost me a couple of weekends working on this, but the result is kind of satisfying so far. All in all I: Setup Immich which has been great as a Google Photos […]