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Headscale, Tailscale and the Boogata boogata (VPN connection via “magic”)

Posted on September 4, 2025 by michael

This is one I’ve been meaning to solve for about 2 years. After I first stood up a server for myself. I had an SSH tunnel but this is, in theory a little more flexible and usable. A number of individuals have advertised tailscale and it’s virtues. Tailscale, as I understand it, is a client …

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Paperless-NGX on Docker

Posted on May 8, 2024 by michael

This should be easy, since paperless very wisely provides pre-made docker images for you. The problem is that they aren’t complete unless you’re running absolutely bog standard and not so secure. There are others out there who have published their own experiences and I’ll add to the pile since I didn’t find what I was …

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A NOOB sets up TrueNAS

Posted on April 25, 2024 by michael

The choice to go with TrueNAS Scale as the bare metal system was made based on a bunch of reading online and in the end a bad experience with a failed disk with TrueNAS Scale virtualized on proxmox. I’m guessing that setup could have been made to work but I’ve been doing this as a …

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Learning Docker, traefik and backing things up on a Proxmox host

Posted on January 7, 2024 by michael

Beginning to build a homelab has been an experience. Picking the underlying system on which to build took way too long. But now that I’ve settled on something (proxmox with a simple VM host for Docker, no portainer, k8s, no NAS. As few layers as possible for now) progress is being made.  I started by setting up a …

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