Photo by Anirudh / Unsplash Homelab Prime Day 2026: Homelab, Networking & Budget PC Deals Worth Your Click Skip the junk. Here are the genuine, tested Prime Day 2026 deals on 10GbE switches, OPNsense mini-PCs, NAS storage, and budget server hardware.
With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility... Privacy Canada Is Quietly Dismantling Digital Privacy - And You're Probably Not Paying Attention Buried inside federal Bills C-22, C-34, and C-9 is a sweeping surveillance architecture. Here is what it means for Canadians and how to self-host your way out.
Shodan.io map view of Toronto & area, Canada showing detected IPV4 & IPV6 addresses. Cybersecurity How to Scan and Pentest Your Homelab (2026 Guide) Stop guessing if your self-hosted infrastructure is secure. Use Shodan, Greenbone OpenVAS in Docker, and Trivy to audit your homelab like a professional.
My Hydra Launcher on CachyOS - Slick eh? Newsletter New from Core Lab: Linux Gaming Showcas, 1 Year of Running A Tech Blog, more to come The CachyOS gaming guide, one year of running a Ghost tech blog (costs and lessons learned), and a preview of an upcoming homelab security audit.
KDE Plasma Desktop, looking beautiful and primed for gaming. CachyOS 🎮 Gaming on CachyOS (2026): Performance Tweaks & Hydra Launcher Guide Maximize your frame times. Discover why CachyOS is the ultimate Linux gaming distro, how to configure the Hydra launcher with Debrid, and fix stubborn HDR & audio bugs.
A digitized and futuristic Core Lab CPU "mascot" ;) Ghost Blog Fighting the AI Slop: Year 1 Metrics, Costs, and Lessons Self-Hosting a Ghost Tech Blog A raw look at Year 1 metrics, real electricity costs, and traffic sources for an independent, self-hosted Ghost tech blog fighting internet AI slop.
Codex - 80+TB Custom NAS/Server All in One, serving Core Lab and my digital life. Hardware The Ultimate 18-Drive Self-Hosted Monolith: Why the Fractal Design Define 7 XL is Still the Best Home Server Case in 2026 A long-term review of the Fractal Design Define 7 XL configured as an 18-drive custom DIY NAS and home server running 58 Docker containers, Home Assistant, and n8n natively.
Codex needed a rescue! Now my wallet does, since I need a new UPS system... OMV When Power Outages Break Everything: Recovering an OMV8 NAS After Filesystem Corruption, Kernel Drift, and DKMS Failure A complete technical post-mortem and recovery guide for OpenMediaVault 8 after rolling power failures corrupt the boot SSD, drift kernels, and break DKMS blocks.
Home Assistant Custom WAN Upload and Download Visualizaion. Newsletter SSD-Deaths & NAS Upgrades, Ghost CMS Home Assistant and Massive Real-Debrid shock & awe! An OPNsense SSD death, an OMV8 power-outage recovery, a Real-Debrid purge fix, and integrating Ghost CMS with Home Assistant in this Core Lab update.
Core Lab Website HA Dashboard, instant status view of many useful metrics! Home Assistant How to Integrate Ghost CMS with Home Assistant Natively (2026 Guide) Stop wasting time checking dashboards. Learn how to natively connect Ghost CMS to Home Assistant to monitor MRR, subscribers, and trigger custom automation.
Real Debrid Infringing File Errors got you down? Here's how Core Lab tackled the issue! Real Debrid How to Fix Real-Debrid "Infringing File" & "Infringing Torrent" Errors (2026) Real-Debrid now blocks many releases with automated filtering, causing “infringing file” errors. Here’s the ultimate 2026 fix for Sonarr, Radarr, Stremio, and Decypharr.
Latest from the lab - hot off the press! Newsletter Visualization, Stronger Ingress & Giving your Homelab a Physical Homelab network visualization tools, media/gaming server networking, Cloudflare DDNS setup, and 2026 hardware recommendations in this Core Lab update.
