MiniLab

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A community for home labs using only mini form factor (MFF) PC's, NUC's or Raspberry Pi's as servers.

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how is this community dead? (lemmy.brandyapple.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/minilab

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With the YouTube influencers making mini labs and mini racks big right now, I'm surprised there's nothing happening here.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I just think the homelabbing community is not super large already so it probably doesn't make much sense to split.

Currently working on my own 10" rack though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Be the change you want to see.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I wasn't aware of this community until seeing this post on all, but I've been posting some minilab material over on [email protected].

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Apparently, it's all Intel's fault - the last post prior to yours was two years ago: "Intel Exiting the PC Business as it Stops Investment in the Intel NUC."

[–] Captain_CapsLock 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just found this post on local, but shit, I'll bite. I've been thinking about hosting a Plex server or something on a little lenovo MPC I've got kicking around. Could you send or post some links to some videos about self hosting on small form factor machines? I'm sure I could google it, but let's keep these cool little communities alive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just reformat the mini PC using any linux OS you want and then install Tipi

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nice. I think I'd rather struggle and learn, but nice to know this exists.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Nice. I think I'd rather starve to near death foraging for my own food, but nice to know grocery stores exist.

Is what you sound like.

[–] Mortoc 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for this tip, I’m absolutely going to try this out, I’ve been looking for an easier way to manage my services

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you have Windows already on the mini PC, then you don't need to reformat, and just use WSL2 and run Tipi within that.