Time to distro-hop!
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2026
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I had a automatic reboot of all VMs and the hypervisor because of a kernel update at night. Nextcloud decided to start in maintenance mode and Jellyfin refused to start because the cache folder didn't have enough space left. Authentik also complained about outdated provider configuration...
Need to investigate the Nextcloud and Authentic issue during weekend 🤗
I wish it was stable
I had a drive die yesterday
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| CA | (SSL) Certificate Authority |
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| Git | Popular version control system, primarily for code |
| HA | Home Assistant automation software |
| ~ | High Availability |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| HTTPS | HTTP over SSL |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| NFS | Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency |
| PSU | Power Supply Unit |
| SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage |
| SSH | Secure Shell for remote terminal access |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
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Gotta be honest, my home lab chugs along quite happily.
Atomic fedora makes it hard to break, and then all the services are containerized and managed by configuration and just files only.
When there’s an update to a service: just pull service. Firewall needs configuring: just firewall-reset && just firewall-enable.
The only flaky thing is a vpn that I run through glutan and I’m thinking of dumping that provider.
I haven't messed with my raspberry pi in maybe a month... And I think one of my backups got corrupted because I receive an email saying that it failed along with tons of errors every night. Hmm, maybe I should get to that soon...
I havent messed much with my servers in 2 years. I think that means I'll hit my RIO in another 5 :)
Honestly, that would be living the dream... I have too many other things I want to do!
Man I always get sad when I see this meme format because the story behind it is so fucking tragic... :(
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