Yesterday I arrived in Dublin for EuroBSDCon. Experienced some interesting bits I did nog give a single thought about upfront. Like Ireland is in the EU, but not in Schengen: passport control. And renting a car without even considering that it might be one of those left hand drive countries …
Right now I'm building my new homelab environment. On top of Proxmox I deployed an OpenBSD virtual machine that will act as an http egress for all homelab vlans. This is just a quick writeup of my recipe.
The virtual machine has two cores assigned and 2 GB of RAM …
Last week I installed FreeBSD on an old and disregarded laptop I had laying around. I wanted to see if FreeBSD BHyve and/or FreeBSD Jails were concepts that would work well for me or at least would introduce some cool new feature or idea. Installing the laptop went unexpectedly …
Trying to ditch centralized services is hard work, in the sense that you need to select some other tool that is functionally great, but also doable when it comes to self-hosting. Recently I had worked on getting rid of the hosted RSS/News aggregator I was using and it …
To do some more OpenBSD fiddling without fiddling with actual hardware, I was looking for some extra virtual machines. I asked around for other options, but not many came up, and they were not particularly more interesting than OpenBSD.Amsterdam.
So yesterday I asked Mischa to set up two now …