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Bye bye Ubuntu Server 20.04 # I moved all my apps from Ubuntu Server to Debian 12 after testing it out for a few months. It’s faster and uses less resources. There’s also no snap which is great! Migration went fine it was tedious but gave me an opportunity to clean up some tech debt I’d made when I first set the vm up. Running sudo shutdown -P now was very satisfying. I still have a backup of the vm if I need to restore though.

It’s around 6 months since the pulmonary embolism and while recovery is going ok there’s still some things not right. I’ve come to think of them as things I’ve lost in the fire. They’re not coming back or at least not without hard work.

Since it’s important to practice what you preach (apparently) here’s my post incident report on a P1 homelab failure Timeline # 09:30 - Services slow, services down 10:00 - Attempt to upgrade Ubuntu and reboot VM 10:00 - CPU spiking 100% across all 8 cores 10:15 - Increase core count to 16 and reboot VM 10:30 - Slow recovery but some services still down 16:00 - Server not on network 18:00 - Server powered on but no response 18:30 - Server disassembled and left to cool - fans cleaned a bit 19:00 - Services recovered

I finally have some closure on the PE that turned my life upside down at the end of October last year. I have it written on a piece of NHS branded paper. It’s innocuously included in a list of other ailments from a consultant only vaguely related the rest of the bullshit I’m having to deal with (health wise not NHS they’ve been ok/great).

“You did it proper.” Consultant Adding to my list of things I never want to hear again. Those words were proceeded by my consultant showing me the images of my chest and the two bright white spots that were the clots that nearly killed me.

aka how I nearly went crazy trying to figure out how to build docker images in Forgejo Actions. With the default setup from here you can get up and running with foregjo actions but it won’t allow you to build docker images inside your workflows.

This is one of those problems that now that I get it it really shouldn’t have been so hard. Like everything with development and homelabbing documentation is key. Huge thanks to:

This guy used to come into my local years ago on his own and talk to everyone. He was a friendly enough older guy, had a few drinks and went home to his partner.

A list of my default hardware and software for 2024, taken from here and expanded on. Hope you enjoy! 📨 Mail Service: Gmail 📮 Mail Client: Gmail 📝 Notes: Joplin ✅ To-Do: Google Calendar & Vikunja 📆 Calendar: Google Calendar 🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: Google Contacts 📖 RSS Service: Hugo 🗞️ RSS Client: FreshRSS ⌨️ Launcher: None ☁️ Cloud storage: Gdrive & Synology Nas 🌅 Photo library: Google Photos & Immich 🌐 Web Browser: Firefox & Librefox 💬 Chat: WhatsApp 🔖 Bookmarks: None 📑 Read Later: Wallabag 📚 Reading: Kindle Paperwhite 📜 Word Processing: Google Docs & Libreoffice 📈 Spreadsheets: Google Docs & Libreoffice 📊 Presentations: Google Docs & Libreoffice 🛒 Shopping Lists: Mealie 💰 Personal Finance: None 🎵 Music: Navidrome/symfony/feishin 🎤 Podcasts: AntennaPod 🔐 Password Management: 1Password 🤦‍♂️ Social Media: Mastodon 🌤️ Weather: Weather&Radar 🔎 Search: DuckDuckGo & Google 🧮 Code Editor: VSCode & nvim 🖥️ Distros: Win 11, OSX, Arch, Debian, Ubuntu 📱Phone: Google Pixel 8 Pro 💻 Laptop: Lenovo X1 Carbon 5th Gen 📜 Document Management: Paperless ngx 💾 Remote servers: 1 💾 Home servers: 3 📱Tablet: Samsung Galaxy Tab 9

Potentially a long one this time round. Lot’s of changes/updates/additions to my homelab. I’m also still managing a second homelab for my parents which brings it’s own set of challenges but is a lot of fun.