https://log.jnsmr.ch/categories/homelab/ Recent content in Homelab on Jonas' Blog Hugo en Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:00:00 +0100 https://log.jnsmr.ch/post/2026-03-27-wake-on-gpio/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:00:00 +0100 https://log.jnsmr.ch/post/2026-03-27-wake-on-gpio/ <p>Alternative title: How to spend an afternoon at Bastli.</p> <hr> <p>Wake-on-LAN has a few issues that I personally don&rsquo;t like. The primary thing that I don&rsquo;t like is that it relies on the mainboard and network interface to be not-quite-shutdown. This leads to some unnecessary power draw while the PC/server is supposed to be shut down.</p> <p>In addition to that, the way WOL works bothers me. Basically, the OS needs to shut down in a very specific way and instruct the NIC to wait for WOL-packets. Every single time. It is <em>not</em> a one-off configuration option that is stored on a NIC (at least not on my hardware). This leads to WOL not working when a PC didn&rsquo;t experience a clean shutdown. This happened to me multiple times, sometimes because power went out for a bit, other times simply because the PC crashed.</p> https://log.jnsmr.ch/post/2025-12-05-networking-overkill/ Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:25:00 +0100 https://log.jnsmr.ch/post/2025-12-05-networking-overkill/ <p>This blog post comes in two variants, based on a simple condition.</p> <ul> <li>Are you my thesis supervisor: I&rsquo;ve done lots of thesis :) this blog post is finished now.</li> <li>Otherwise: keep reading</li> </ul> <p>Recently I stumbled upon my old NAS. It&rsquo;s been turned off since a while, and I really had no clue what&rsquo;s on it. However, I decided I should integrate it in my &ldquo;homelab&rdquo;. The homelab I had at that point consisted exclusively of one old desktop computer at my parents place. Further, the computer is directly connected to the ISP router, and essentially everything I accessed was over the public internet (with good credentials of course).</p> https://log.jnsmr.ch/post/2023-03-19-self-hosting-gitea/ Sun, 19 Mar 2023 22:13:00 +0000 https://log.jnsmr.ch/post/2023-03-19-self-hosting-gitea/ <p>Some time ago I decided I want to take matters into my own hands and host my own code. I was aware of a few git hosting services: GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, and Gitea.</p> <p>GitHub was no option, as you can&rsquo;t self-host that.</p> <p>I was not very familiar with GitLab, and it looked clunky, big, and slow to me.</p> <p>BitBucket I was not a fan of due to it being product of an Australian company. <a href="https://fee.org/articles/australia-s-unprecedented-encryption-law-is-a-threat-to-global-privacy/">See here why that might not be a good thing</a></p>