Build. Break. Rebuild. Repeat.
A lab notebook of documented builds, failures, reasoning, and rabbit holes.
DECISIONS AND OPINIONS
The Distro Nobody Ranks
A distro where the whole system is a config file, the boot menu undoes my mistakes, and the cost list is longer than I'd like.
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The House Came Wired. Then I Ran Out of Ports.
A house with wiring and a Dream Wall already in place still needed a patch panel, a cable tester, and a firewall rule I didn't remember writing.
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Everything Was Tested. Eventually.
A move to Texas turned a pile of borrowed homelab gear into a real Proxmox build — and a hard lesson that a green backup job doesn't mean your backups actually work.
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So I Started A Thing...
Twenty years fixing aircraft taught me to troubleshoot. Now I break my own homelab on purpose, and this is where I document all of it, mess included.
