Latest VIR.GROUP posts tagged #homelab: investor opinions, project pitches and business insights.
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Stop over-provisioning your VMs just because you have the RAM. Most home lab users waste resources by assigning max specs to idle services. Use thin provisioning and ballooning to keep your hardware efficient. Your cluster will run cooler…
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🔍 Why let Google index your private files? Hister is a self-hosted search engine for your own webpages and files (PDF, DOCX, Markdown) — no cloud, no tracking, full-text search on your own server. Minimum requirements: 256MB RAM, runs g…
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📡 BrowSDR turns your RTL-SDR or HackRF into a browser-based WebSDR — no client software needed. Track planes via ADS-B, decode APRS packets, receive NOAA weather satellites, or listen to aviation frequencies — all from any browser on you…
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🗄️ FTRFS: a new fault-tolerant file system has been proposed for the Linux kernel. Think ZFS-level reliability without the RAM overhead. Built-in replication, per-object checksums, fast crash recovery. Could fill the gap between Btrfs an…
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☀️ Home solar in Ukraine 2026: prices hit historic lows, payback period is now 5–7 years. Practical guide: which components to choose, how to calculate your system size, what installers won't tell you. Full guide: https://newsgroup.s…
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🖥️ Own your data: TrueNAS 26 Beta drops with Linux 6.18 LTS + OpenZFS 2.4 — the best open-source NAS platform yet. No subscriptions. No Google Drive. No one scanning your files. Just your own server, your own cloud. ✅ Nextcloud self-hos…
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