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date = '2026-07-31T22:33:32-04:00'
title = "What's in the lab right now?"
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The network's in a cool spot right now. 

{{< figure src="/images/lab.jpg" title="The whole team" width="600" >}}

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# The Gesellschaft
*TrueNAS on a 6th gen i7 with 32gb RAM*
## Services here

**Frigate**
- This has been cool for storing footage from our IP cams, though I'm not too thrilled with the performance of our current setup. We use Tapo, and the small ones work fine - but the "good" one for the entryway doesn't support local account setup. We bought them in a pinch and they've been effective, but I'm not crazy about them. 

**Immich**
- An excellent tool that I haven't given the time it deserves. It's intended to be a "set and forget" image backup, which it's served well as, though I would like to delve a bit deeper. Time is an illusion.

**Jellyfin**
- What else can I say. A perfect tool for streaming (*ahem*) acquired media. A bit clunky for music, however. So we use instead...

**Navidrome**
- Another perfect tool for interfacing with your media of the audio varitety. The metadata is only as good as YOU make it, but that's a fun mindless task for when you wanna get stoned and data entry for a bit. (What, just me?)

**Memos**
- A fun markdown-based tool for keeping notes, designed to look and function like a self-hosted Twitter. Sorts by tags, comes with a search integrated. Real fun to mess with, though I've since kinda abandoned it since building this.

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# The Servbot

*Ubuntu 26.04 on a 4th Gen i5 with 16gb RAM*

A rugged little beast. Formerly part of a Proxmox cluster, running HA on three of these guys proved to be a bit much.

## Services here

**Nginx Proxy Manager**
- Something I started using early on, as soon as I bought the first domain. I know how to use it, it handles Cloudflare well, so far little complaints.

**Dockge**
- Handy for deploying Docker stuff quickly. I like the interface

**Pinchflat**
- For archiving those important videos

**OpenSpeedTest**
- *shrugs* Why not?

**Seerr**
- Better for requests than a Discord server

**Futo Notes**
- I'd rather have my text files be my responsibility

**The Stack**
- The less said the better

**Gitea**
- Getting familiar with that setup, but that's been clunky
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# The Router

Running OPNSense on a decommissioned kiosk computer I nabbed from work. A 7th gen i3 with two NIC jacks in a compact form factor... that had a locked bios. It booted legacy, though, and that's all I needed.

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