homelab

Yes, I just broke my sso app by upgrading and not making a backup beforehand.

For protecting your OS virtualization or containerization is key.

Using Nginx Proxy Manager instead of Traefik, because I wasn't using Docker much at the time. Now I can't be arsed to learn how to use Traefik properly, and change everything over.

I've been using rootless Docker because it's a good practice, but I've been having weird permissions issues that apparently no one else has or, at least, not enough people use rootless to know lol. I have some theories about how to solve it, but it would require a good amount of time. I'm also restructuring my directories so it's better organized with Syncthing and I have to resolve those permission issues to solve the backup problems I have (mostly DB files that I don't have permission to copy).

I 100% have made many many mistakes ... I just don't know which ... yet.

I just spent last weekend fixing all the things I broke last week......yes, the WHOLE weekend. I guess its called home"lab" for a reason :)

I only make mistakes in a production environment at work.

I don't test often but when I do its in production

I still make mistakes. I have a Proxmox server right now rebooting at random times and I have no clue why and no time to fully diagnose.

My first rm -r mistake was a hard pill to swallow... You think this only happens to others or because people don't take time to look carefully their command...

Nah... when you're experimenting new things (grep, exclude certain files, piping other commands, relative path vs absolute, sed, regex....) It can easily do some strange things you didn't expected beforehand.

But hey that's how you learn (I guess?). If everything would be perfect the first time you do something, the world would be annoying ? 😄

This is literally the point of a homelab. I mean not so much the hardware stuff, that sucks, but hell yeah, breaking shit is how you learn! You do not learn JACK following a tutorial to the letter and everything going perfectly.

I mostly learn from mistakes, and since homelabs are all about learning, there are bound to be mistakes.

I've borked my network multiple times, broken VMs, and redesigned things from the ground up, again.

Big lesson is to have backups. Lol

I have 24TB of wasted SSDs. I learned not to buy QLC ever again haha

In the last hour? ~~No~~

Edit: never mind

Breaking things and learning how to fix them is a big part of owning a home lab. It can be frustrating but the learning experience is worth it

Cheaped out on UPS, now I have three basic small ones I have no use for (they work except the battery isn't good anymore). Would have been better spend a bit more right from the start.

Yes. Anyone who says otherwise is a goddamn liar.

Getting started with openwrt there were a few times i fucked the config so badly the only resolution was to nuke from orbit and start from scratch

doing a hard delete of all my docker containers by accident was a fun mistake I made

All the time. Why have a home lab if you aren’t going to fuck things up? :)

Better it happens in the home lab than at work!!