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Background Hello! I’m writing this guide to help others who might face similar issues. Recently, my coworker corrupted the BIOS on his ASUS G301QE, and he was asking around the office if anyone could help. He had already tried the ASUS BIOS Flashback feature and disconnected the battery, but nothing worked—he was pretty desperate. I…

Hello, I just recently started dealing with this issue and I see a lot of others doing drastic fixes like reimaging the problem PC. There’s a simple fix for this issue until Microsoft solves this. Using a recovery drive or my preferred option is using Hiren’s BootCD PE ISO. If you followed my creating USB…

Transitioning from TrueNAS: Choosing My Next NAS Operating System Hello, I’ve decided that I’m going to transition from my current NAS OS, TrueNAS, to one of three distros—and I’m going to fix my very risky RAID configuration. (I’ll talk about this later.) At the moment, I’m researching different OS options to move to, and I’ve…

Hello, I just switched my Cloudflare Tunnel container for an open-source alternative, Newt (Pangolin), on my home lab. They are both special reverse proxies that use a secure tunnel to expose your internal services to the internet.There are a lot of benefits to setting up Pangolin, but it comes with a cost and requires more…

Hello, I want to start carrying around a USB drive with me, filled with all the tools I may need. Before, I carried a couple of USB drives for imaging and one for storage/tools. Buying one drive and using it for everything would be a lifesaver. I could see myself using a GParted ISO to…

Hello, I recently upgraded my homelab to a rack build. I started homelabbing about a year ago with an HP EliteDesk PC and some external bay drives. Now, I have a rack-mounted NAS server running TrueNAS. My setup has 32 TB of storage and 32 GB of RAM, which I plan to upgrade soon. The…

THIS IS OUTDATED: I changed this topology to work better with my network. When using Proxmox you’re going to run into issues with VLANs unless you configure it properly. It’s recommended to have Proxmox on the Management VLAN so you can bridge the Server VLAN for the containers and VMs. Similar idea for TrueNAS. I’m…

Setting Up Your Debian Home Server: A Step-by-Step Guide Hello, were going to use a old HP micro PC for a home server. This guide will walk you through the entire process: from preparing your hardware to installing Debian, creating a superuser account, configuring SSH to use SHA-256 for fingerprints, and ensuring secure access. What…

Installing Arch Linux can be challenging if it’s your first time and you’re not sure what you’re doing. This guide is for people who know the basics and are willing to install it manually. 1. Pre-Installation Setup Download and Verify the ISO Create a Bootable Medium Boot the Live Environment 2. Preparing Your System Verify…