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Harley Davidson Street Bob (FXBBS) From bringing home a new 2023 Street Bob 114 to making it my own with an exhaust, Saddlemen seat, Road Warrior fairing, T-bars, and a cleaner all-black tank swap.
2022-11-24
#motorcycles
Raspberry Pi 4 USB Boot How to update the Raspberry Pi 4's EEPROM bootloader, change its boot order, and move from an SD card to USB storage using an M.2 SSD for a cleaner and more reliable setup.
2022-09-30
#hardware#linux
Raspberry Pi Cluster Upgrading my four-node Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster with PoE HATs and a PoE switch, replacing separate power supplies with a cleaner single-cable setup for both power and networking.
2022-05-01
#hardware#linux#homelab
The Mac Pro is Back After years with the compact and limited 2013 Mac Pro, moving to the 2019 model feels like a return to what made the original Mac Pro great: a proper tower with accessible, upgradeable hardware.
2022-01-21
#hardware#macos
Dell T620 Adding my first real enterprise server to the homelab: a used Dell PowerEdge T620 with dual Xeons, RAID storage, and 192 GB of RAM for experimenting with virtualization and server infrastructure.
2022-01-20
#hardware#homelab
How to Install Arch Linux on RPi4 with USB Boot A step-by-step guide to installing Arch Linux ARM on a Raspberry Pi 4 and configuring it to boot from an SSD over USB instead of relying on an SD card.
2022-01-18
#linux#hardware
What's a Raspberry Pi? An introduction to the Raspberry Pi, the inexpensive ARM-powered computer that became a favorite among developers and makers, along with some of the projects and experiments you can build with one.
2022-01-16
#hardware#linux#education
Dell T5600 Turning a Dell Precision T5600 into a 16-core, 128 GB homelab server running Plex, monitoring, and custom home automation services with Ubuntu Server, Docker, Traefik, and a custom Philips Hue API.
2022-01-11
#hardware#linux#homelab