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A 10-Inch Homelab Rack, Printed in PETG
A switch needed a mount, and that turned into a whole rack: a printed 10-inch frame holding two ZimaBoards, a 2.5GbE switch and a drive. The models, the material, and what’s still unfinished.
ZimaBoard 2 Buying Guide: Do You Need the 16 GB Version?
The two ZimaBoard 2 variants differ in RAM and eMMC, nothing else. Measurements from a full homelab stack on the 8 GB model, and where 16 GB actually earns the surcharge.
From FRITZ!Box to TP-LinkBox 7: Measuring What Changes in a Home Network
A test log: iperf3 LAN baselines at gigabit and 2.5GbE, Ookla internet measurements, where those TCP retransmits actually came from, and why WSL2 is a poor place to benchmark a fast network.
Four Weeks with the NitroPad T480: The Verdict Before It Goes Back
Closing the loops from the review and the Qubes week: what Heads is like day to day, whether the start times became routine, and whether I’d spend my own money on one.
HTB on Qubes: an OpenVPN Gateway and the Reverse Shell Problem
Five minutes on Kali, five hours on Qubes. The default route that kills your internet, where the DNAT rule belongs, and the mistakes I made getting there.