Introduction
[This article is currently in draft form, revisions will be frequent these first few days, in preparation for Matt Ferrell's new YouTube video coming out on Feb 24 2026. More photos and links coming soon.]
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My wife and I took on the task of converting from gas to electric for our just-purchased "forever home" back in 2022. It was a 32-year-old, 1,856 sq. ft. house in need of a new roof, some remodeling, and major energy-efficiency upgrades including new windows. The massive supply chain and labor shortages at that time made the HVAC portion a much bigger challenge than it should have been. The impediments were plentiful on our mission to have net-zero annual energy costs for our daily living and transportation needs, but by winter #4 h…
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I recently had a comment on a blog post that stopped me in my tracks. It was a comment from a reader that made me stop and think about the…
The post Are Home Labs Dead in 2026? The Comment That Forced Me to Rethink Everything appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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Since I have been playing around a LOT lately with Proxmox and software-defined storage, there was another configuration that I wanted to test in my Proxmox environment. That was LACP…
The post I Tried LACP in My Proxmox Home Lab and Here’s What Actually Happened appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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I have been super geeking out on my home lab this week going all in on some nerd knobs of Proxmox clustering and Ceph storage between my cluster hosts. I…
The post I Built a Ceph Erasure-Coded NVMe Cluster in My Home Lab. Here’s What Actually Happened appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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We have all been there with technologies that we are learning for the first time. We don’t know what we don’t know. When I first started building my home lab…
The post Proxmox Tips I Wish I Knew Before Building My First Home Lab appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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There is no question that my home lab has been shrinking, not in terms of processing and other power, but in terms of physical footprint this year. I have been…
The post The Smallest Home Lab That Still Feels Like a Real Datacenter appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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Most have been following my journey of testing and making changes in the home lab. Recently I have been spinning up a minilab running on Proxmox. For years, I have…
The post I Don’t Miss vCenter After Moving My Home Lab to Proxmox (Here’s Why) appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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If you are deciding to run a production-grade Kubernetes cluster, Talos Linux Kubernetes makes a lot of sense, since it focuses on being immutable and security-focused. However, it forces you…
The post Why Ceph Won for Persistent Storage in My Talos Linux Kubernetes MiniLab appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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Sometimes, you wonder to yourself if you are a self-hoster, am I doing this right? What can I do to make my setup better? When you first start out, progress…
The post 9 Home Lab Signals That Tell You You’re Building the Right Way appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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Man DevOps has certainly gotten exciting for me personally. There are just so many cool things that we can do in the home lab now with very cool solutions and…
The post The Top DevOps Skills in 2026 You Can Learn in a Home Lab appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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Going into home lab testing and learning for 2026, I wanted to continue building on a project I started with my mini 10 inch rack while also making better use…
The post Inside My Mini Rack Proxmox and Kubernetes Home Lab for 2026 appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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当 AI 能够完美代劳记忆型事务、高效处理逻辑琐事时，一个焦虑也随之而来：作为个体，我们的核心竞争力究竟还剩什么？
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For a long time, there was a website called LabGopher that was one of those quiet tools that many home lab builders relied on to find second hand used enterprise…
The post LabGopher Is Gone and RackRat Is the Alternative Homelab Builders Are Turning To appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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I have self-hosted a lot of things over the years in my home lab. However, we all eventually reach a point where we run a few less than normal things…
The post The Weirdest Things I’ve Successfully Run in My Home Lab appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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2025 年 7 月，默沙东公司通知研究者，KEYNOTE-937 研究没有达到主要研究终点，研究被终止并对患者进行了揭盲。在本周末的 ASCO GI 年会上，这项研究会公布主要研究结果。今天，研究的摘要在线发布。 KEYNOTE-937 ...
If you have spent any time in home lab communities this past year in 2025, you will have noticed a trend that seems to be sweeping the home lab community,…
The post I Bought a 10 Inch Home Lab Rack for 2026 and It Surprised Me appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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Vibe Coding CLI评测： Claude Code vs. OpenAI Codex vs. Gemini CLI
本博客由AI模型商OhMyGPT强力驱动！如何更快地访问本站？有需要可加电报群获得更多帮助。本博客用什么VPS？创作不易，请支持苯苯！推荐购买本博客的VIP喔，10元/年即可畅享所有VIP专属内容！ 概览 基于 SWE-bench Verified 基准测试、社区反馈和个人深度使用体验,全面对比三大 CLI AI 编程助手 Claude Code 以 72.7% SWE-bench 得分位居榜首,响应速度最快、Agent Skills 开发体验最佳、全程母语对话支持;常见误解:工具本身免费,可用国产模型(如 MiniMax M2 仅占官方成本 8%)大幅降低使用成本 OpenAI Codex CLI 开源可定制(SWE-bench 69.1%),适合已有 OpenAI 生态用户;但 Agent Skills 开发体验较差,推理过程全程英文对非母语用户不友好 Gemini CLI 凭借 1M […]
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If you have been following my recent experiments in the home lab, I recently tested a very cool project for running Proxmox VE Server inside a Docker container. The developer…
The post Run Proxmox Datacenter Manager in a Docker Container for Home Labs and Testing appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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I have tried a whole lot of different Docker “dashboards” and consoles over the past few years. We have seen this area explode with many different options available out there…
The post Why Dockhand Is One of the Best Docker Management Tools for Secure Operations appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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opencode 是一个对新手非常友好的 AI 编程工具：
自带免费的大模型可用
零配置上手，在项目目录里直接使用
开源，能直接看源码，对想学 Agent 的人来说，也是一份非常不错的学习资料
最近看到很多人都在推荐 opencode。我自己其实已经用习惯了 claude code 和 codex，本来不打算折腾新的工具。但架不住推荐的人实在太多，还是试了一下……结果现在我也想推荐它了。
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If you are stuck on another hypervisor at the moment and would like to get over to Proxmox VE Server as your virtualization platform, there is a way that you…
The post Run Proxmox Inside Docker: A Weekend Home Lab Project to Learn Clustering and HA appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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Over he past couple of years now we have been seeing a paradigm shift in how we think about our home lab environments. I think the Broadcom buyout of VMware…
The post Why Containers Will Matter More Than Hypervisors in the 2026 Home Lab appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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Man 2025 has been an exciting year for home labbing. I have been able to experiment with a lot of great software solutions and new hardware, including mini PCs and…
The post A Look Back at My 2025 Home Lab and What Changed Along the Way appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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For years personally and professional, VMware was simply the default choice for production and home lab in my opinion. It was familiar, stable, and everyone was using it at their…
The post I Spent a Year Running Proxmox and VMware Side by Side in My Home Lab appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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大模型最大的幻觉，可能是让人类以为自己可以直接略过过程、直达结果。
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There has been a lot of community projects that have sprung up around Docker UIs and dashboards. Most of us run Docker in the home lab and as your containers…
The post Why Arcane Might Be the Next Big Docker UI for the Home Lab appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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我会冲击波/naming-idea-plugin: idea变量命名插件,变量命名工具,变量命名, 变量命名工具, 中文变量命名, 程序员命名工具, 代码命名规范, 编程命名, 驼峰命名, 下划线命名, PascalCase, camelCase, snake_case, kebab-case, CONSTANT_CASE, 中文转英文变量, 提高代码可读性, 代码质量, 编程辅助工具, 开发者工具,
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I feel like the pieces of Docker monitoring with recent tools brought online in the home lab has finally started to fall into place. For a long time in my…
The post I Took Docker Container Monitoring to the Next Level With These 3 Tools appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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For a long while, especially when I first started with a home lab and self-hosting services, my answer to everything was to self-host it. This mindset I think can serve…
The post Things I Stopped Self-Hosting (And Why Cloud or Managed Won) appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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I am constantly on the lookout for new tools that can help with managing resources in the home lab. Reverse proxies are extremely important and useful since they allow you…
The post Why Zoraxy Might Be the Best Reverse Proxy for Home Labs appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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Well, it is happening, there is another casualty of the AI boom and that is hard drives. Just in the last couple of days, news of hard drive price increases…
The post Docker Is Slowly Filling Up Your Home Lab Disk Space (And the Tool I Use to Fix It) appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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I have been writing a lot about DNS lately as I have been trying out a lot of different solutions. Recently, I took the new version of Technitium for a…
The post I Now Manage My DNS Server from Git (and It Changed Everything) appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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Keeping your network diagrams up to date can be a chore. You already probably know how this story ends. You start out having good intentions and use something like draw.io…
The post Stop Drawing Network Diagrams Manually Scanopy Does It for You appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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在 AI Agent 生态高速发展的今天，MCP（Model Context Protocol）与 Agent Skill 已成为扩展 AI 能力的两大核心范式。但多数开发者在实际使用中容易混淆二者：明明想让 AI 访问外部数据库，却用了 Skill；想让 AI 遵循团队代码规范，却试图通过 MCP 实现。 二者看似都 […]
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Most of us are looking for low-hanging fruit for optimizations you can do that get quick results that are beneficial. Below is a weekend-friendly set of optimizations that will provide…
The post 12 Proxmox Host Tweaks Worth Doing This Weekend appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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Docker logs are definitely one of the first places I look when troubleshooting issues with containers. It is often where you will find the root cause of the issue that…
The post LoggiFly Is the Docker Log Alerting Tool I Didn’t Know I Needed appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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When it comes to improving and “upgrading” your home lab, most of us starting thinking about the hardware side of things. More memory (haha, rolling eyes at prices), faster storage,…
The post 10 Small Changes That Made My Home Lab Far More Reliable appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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When I build a brand new Proxmox host or cluster, I don’t start with deploying everything and the kitchen sink. I focus on getting a small set of home lab…
The post 9 Home Lab Services I Would Deploy First on a Fresh Proxmox Install appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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Having redundant DNS servers in a home lab is a great idea and helps to shore up one of the single points of failure that we can have in the…
The post Stop Using Pi-Hole Sync Tools and Use Technitium DNS Clustering Instead appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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An aspect of maintaining a production environment or home lab environment that I have personally never really enjoyed is patching. However, it is one of those necessary evils when you…
The post PatchMon Is the Linux Update GUI I’ve Been Wanting for My Home Lab appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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If you were able to wipe the slate clean and start your home lab journey fresh today for the beginning of 2026, what would your starter stack look like? I…
The post Ultimate Home Lab Starter Stack for 2026 (Key Recommendations) appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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Usually we are thinking about upgrading other hardware in our home labs, including mini PCs, network switches, storage, and RAM (cough cough with today’s prices). However, there is another aspect…
The post Do You Really Need Wi-Fi 7 in Your Home Lab in 2025? appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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I think we are seeing a paradigm shift in hardware landscape with the surging price of consumer RAM. This is not only going to affect the obvious, RAM upgrades, but…
The post Why Containers Will Be More Important Than Ever in the 2026 Home Lab appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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Most of us have tried many of the home lab dashboards that are out there. I know I have been through the common list of them available. And there are…
The post Why Deq Might Be the Best Home Lab Dashboard in 2025 appeared first on Virtualization Howto.
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在AI聊天、智能问答类应用中，AI生成内容的呈现效果直接决定了用户的使用体验。纯文本的展示形式不仅会让代码块、表格等结构化内容变得杂乱难读，还会因缺乏交互能力降低用户操作效率。本文将从需求痛点出发，基于Vue3.5的组合式API，结合MarkdownIt解析引擎与Prism.js语法高亮工具，一步步构建一个集结构化渲染 […]
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当谷歌毫无预兆地推出Gemini 3.0与Antigravity开发平台，一场软件开发领域的颠覆性变革正式拉开序幕。这不仅是一次模型版本的迭代，更是对传统开发模式、工具生态与开发者核心竞争力的全面重构。从接近博士水平的逻辑推理能力，到任务导向的开发新范式，AI编程正从"辅助工具"进化为"核 […]
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Gemini 3 Pro 的发布不仅刷新了多模态模型的性能上限，更通过 Gemini CLI 把这种能力直接搬进了终端。从此，终端不再只是执行命令的窗口，而是集“代码生成、多模态开发、项目文档自动化、云端故障排查”于一体的全能开发环境。借助 Agentic Coding 特性，它能理解复杂工程需求，调用外部工具，甚至独 […]
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Google 发布的 Gemini 3 彻底颠覆了前端开发的传统模式——无需复杂编码，只需一句自然语言描述，就能生成高保真产品原型、企业级网站、3D 动画应用甚至完整游戏。这种“所想即所得”的开发体验，让前端开发从“代码堆砌”转向“创意落地”，但也引发了“前端已死”的热议。 本文结合实测体验，深度拆解 Gemini 3 […]
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当谷歌 DeepMind 推出 Gemini 3 时，整个 AI 圈的反应不再是“惊艳”，而是“颠覆”——它能在极短时间内精准还原主流平台首页（含完整交互逻辑），生成可直接运行的游戏、拆解长视频细节，甚至用代码实现专业领域的 3D 交互动画。这种“从静态生成到动态交互”的跨越，让多模态 AI 真正从“展示工具”升级为“ […]
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在信息爆炸的时代，我们积累了大量工作文档、学习笔记、行业资料，但传统检索方式效率低下，且公共AI工具存在隐私泄露风险。而私有化AI知识库能完美解决这些痛点——它将你的专属数据存储在本地，通过强大的大模型实现自然语言问答，既安全私密，又能快速精准提取信息。 本文将以“DeepSeek（中文优势模型）+ Ollama（模型 […]
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在智能体（Agent）开发中，工具调用的标准化是提升开发效率、降低生态碎片化的关键。模型上下文协议（Model Context Protocol, MCP）作为连接大语言模型与外部工具的通用标准，完美解决了不同工具接入方式各异、跨平台复用困难的痛点。而 LangChain 1.0 通过 langchain-mcp-ad […]
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这个双十一，老T买了两台打印机：一台激光打印机，一台3D打印机。
前些天老T在知乎简单回答了个关于悬索桥的问题，虽然赞同的不少，但评论中质疑者也很多，主要争论的就是悬索桥主缆损坏是否可维修更换。由于老T本身对桥梁建设一窍不通，只能以最基本的文字阅读能力，通过查找严肃的文献资料，争取将这个事情说清。
人们所说的未来，其实就是明天。
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Hot off the press is Proxmox Backup Server 4.0. PBS is a great tool to use with your Proxmox VE servers to do fast and easy backups of your VMs and LXCs. It’s very easy to setup, and can be deployed in a variety of forms: bare metal, VM or LXC. Personally, I’ve deployed Proxmox […]
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Many home labs have both Proxmox VE hosts (for running VMs and LXCs) as well as a Synology NAS. If you want to run Proxmox Backup Server on your Synology NAS as a VM, this post is for you. I’ll show you how to install PBS as VM on your NAS, as well as configure […]
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New to Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) 4.0 is a ‘tech preview’ feature for using S3 buckets as a datastore. While many people associate S3 buckets with Amazon, it is more or less a standard that many cloud providers support. This opens up many possibilities for direct PBS to cloud backups, which is great news. However, […]
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If you have a Synology NAS and want to use it with Proxmox Backup Server (PBS), you have two primary options for your datastore: NFS or an iSCSI LUN. If you want to use NFS storage, check out my previous article: How To: Setup Synology NFS for Proxmox Backup Server Datastore . However, the NFS datastore […]
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This refreshed 2025 post covers using a Synology NAS NFS share as a datastore for Proxmox backups. Configuring a NFS share for the proper Proxmox Backup Server permissions can be quite challenging. The permissions requirements for PBS are different from just a basic NFS mount to a Proxmox VE host that you use for VE […]
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In this article I will walk you through how to install Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) 4.0 inside of a VM running on Proxmox 9.0. You might be wondering why you might want to install PBS as a VM instead of a LXC. Good question! If you want to use iSCSI LUNs as a PBS datastore, […]
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