K3CAN

I mostly learn from mistakes, and since homelabs are all about learning, there are bound to be mistakes.

I’ve borked my network multiple times, broken VMs, and redesigned things from the ground up, again.

Big lesson is to have backups. Lol

On a pi, specifically?

Mine is currently running Mailrise and serving as a qdevice for Proxmox. It used to run nginx as a reverse proxy, but I moved that to a different machine. I had a second pi specifically for sharing USB devices over the network, but I wasn’t using it very much so it’s currently not in use.

If you’re looking for general ideas, I think a pi would make a good appliance for ddclient, Homepage/Dashy, an SSH/VPN jumpbox, UPS monitoring, or a notification platform. Basically, any set-and-forgot service that you want to keep running 24/7.

Someone probably just dropped a reel while swapping the tape on their mainframe and has spent the last week trying to roll it all back up.

67% on QRZ.

That includes everything I log, though, and I don’t actually expect confirmations on some of them. For example, I’ll log QSOs on local repeaters just to help me keep track of people I’ve talked to in the area, but I don’t expect to get QSLs on those.

Anyway, for a point of comparison, I have 59% on LOTW.

Jerboa for now.

Definitely switching to Boost ASAP, though.

Still working fine here, too, but only on my two mod alts. My non-mod account just gets some kind of “request exceeded” error.