A user migrated their last btrfs machine to ZFS after discovering their backups had silently failed for four months, driven by paranoia that an AI agent running in YOLO mode could destroy their system…
A developer built purefetch, a system-info fetcher in Rust with zero dependencies from crates.io, using only std and raw Linux syscalls. The tool produces a ~484 KiB binary and supports four architect…
A home-lab user migrated from TrueNAS to NixOS after TrueNAS's build-system changes, using an AI agent with strict no-change instructions, disko, and a VM rehearsal to safely transfer ~100 TiB of ZFS …
Bruno Croci migrated his long-running blog from an outdated Ubuntu 16.04 server to a more affordable Hetzner virtual machine running FreeBSD. He chose FreeBSD primarily for its support of ZFS, which i…
This guide details the setup of an Ubuntu home server using a Beelink Mini PC, focusing on Docker-based services for self-hosting, including Nextcloud, Pi-hole, and monitoring tools like Grafana. It e…