Tag: homelab

Wire up QSV, VAAPI, or NVENC in Immich so face recognition and thumbnails run on the GPU, not your CPU. Step-by-step for Intel, AMD, and Nvidia.

Get Caddy running as a reverse proxy in Docker — automatic HTTPS, Caddyfile config, and Docker Compose setup in under 10 minutes.

The official, no-nonsense way to install Docker Engine on Ubuntu and Debian — repository setup, key import, and one command to verify it works.

Generate code documentation with Doxygen without installing it — run it from a Docker container and get HTML docs from any codebase.

LazyLibrarian vs Readarr for ebook and audiobook automation in 2026 — why Readarr got retired, what to run instead, with real Docker Compose configs.

Disaster recovery for your Linux home lab — tiered backups, a restic script that actually runs, restore drills, and the gotchas that bite at 2 AM.

Automate Docker container deployment with shell scripts, cron, and Ansible — stop SSHing in and restarting things by hand.

Pixtral, Qwen3-VL, and Gemma 4 compared for local multimodal use in 2026. LLaVA is dead; here's what to run in Ollama for OCR, screenshots, and vision tasks.

NocoDB wraps any SQL database in a spreadsheet UI — self-host an Airtable alternative on top of MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite with Docker.

Make Plex actually fast: enable hardware transcoding, fix remote access without relay, tune Docker env vars, and decide if Jellyfin is calling your name.

Stakater Reloader watches ConfigMaps and Secrets and triggers rolling restarts automatically, so your pods always run current config—no kubectl rollout.

Restic forget, prune, and check: right order, real retention flags, cron automation, and why --read-data on a large repo will ruin your whole weekend.