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Discussion Thread 🍞 Monday 18 May 2026 (aussie.zone)

submitted 5 days ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Start playing with home automation. HAOS is free and Ikea have cheap matter devices

(I built a custom rack, it has two pizza boxes - one testbed, one 'production', both running proxmox. Production one has our automation, a virtual xp box for legacy drivers and an alpine middleman for the symlinks. Under that is a dedicated win7 box offline and kvm'd because fuck 10 onwards, the UPS, webserver and de switches. Fikeserver lives off yo one side because that was a fuckoff massive kitbash i did years ago on an old proliant 1500 scsi chassis)