I just learned about the whole homelab thing a week ago; it's a much deeper rabbit hole than I expected. I'm planning to setup ProxMox today for the first time in fact and retire my Ubuntu Server setup running on a NUC that's been serving me well for last couple years.
I hadn't heard about mealie yet, but sounds like a great one to install.
Ubuntu Server setup running on a NUC that's been serving me well
In my book, that’s a homelab, it's just a small one (an efficient one?...)
You should definitely try mealie yes. On top of a good way to host your own recipes, the entire thing just feels...really well put together?
I'm not even using the features beyond the recipes yet, but i'm already very happy that i can migrate my recipes from google docs to over there
If you want to go another, related rabbit hole, check out the DataHoarder subreddit. But don't blame me, if you’re buying terabytes of storage over the next few months :)
Data Hoarding is a bit more involved than just a homelab. Don't want your data hoard to go down or missing, whole you're labbing new techs and protocols.
don't blame me if you’re buying terabytes of USB drives and pulling out the hard drives
I have Proxmox running on top of a clean Debian install on my NUC, I wanted to allow Plex to use the hardware decoding and it got a bit funny trying to do that with Plex running in a VM, so it runs on the host and I use VMs for other stuff
It's very easy to do this with LXC containers in Proxmox now, as passing devices to a container is now possible from the UI.
Just as easy with VMs, just have to pass the device to the VM
I have an Intel (12th Gen i5-12450H) mini-pc and at first had issues getting the GPU firmware loaded and working in Debian 12. However upgrading to Debian 13 (trixie) and doing apt update and upgrade resolved the issue and was able to pass the onboard Intel GPU through Docker to a Jellyfin container just fine. I believe the issue is related to older linux kernels and GPU firmware compatibility. Perhaps that’s your issue.
A Few Moments Later
There is time dialation in the homelab vortex ... what feels like a few hours can turn out to be years in the real world.
My best McConaughey voice: “this little server is gonna cost us 51 years”
That’s precisely what I meant! I’m at my sixth year, I guess. Maybe longer, I’ve lost my count.