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Proxmox Home Lab on an Old Laptop
How to repurpose an old laptop as a Proxmox Hypervisor. The virtualisation landscape has shifted in 2024, with the change to VMware licencing after Broadcomm’s acquisition, and the end to the ESXi free licence. vSphere (featuring vCenter Server for centralised administration and ESXi as compute nodes) is now much less cost effective for smaller scale deployments. The “ESXi only” free approach has long been used by the smallest deployments for single hypervisor hosts and a handful of guest VMs - and has been useful for the hobbyist.
March 29, 2024
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Disable Wifi by Timer
Disable Wifi by Timer Alexa is still asleep… go back to bed. Some people are night owls, whilst others are early birds. Then there are children… In my house, despite making it clear when is an acceptable time to get out of bed and when not, this is not always stuck to by the younger family members. When this happens, the TV and Firestick are usually on within seconds. This isn’t so bad if the kids are good at turn taking (!
March 17, 2024
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Dinnertime Gaming Blocker
Because you can love gaming a bit too much. We all love a bit of gaming at my house, myself, my wife and my kids. The only problem is, when it is time to stop and come off the computer games in time for dinner. Whether it is Minecraft, Party Animals, Kerbal Space Program or anything else, the kids don’t want to stop. As parents, we’ve been met with ‘in a minute’ refusals that have found food going cold, and a lot of frustration on our part.
March 10, 2024