McGarrah Technical Blog

ProxMox 8.2 for the Homelabs

· 7 min read
Building a Proxmox 8 + Ceph HA cluster on decade-old Dell OptiPlex 990 hardware with Seagate USB drives — the background, the hardware inventory, and why Ceph beat a Synology NAS.

Thinkpad T480 WWAN SSD

· 6 min read
Adding a 1TB NVMe SSD to the ThinkPad T480's WWAN M.2 slot using a 2230-to-2242 B+M key adapter — a cheap way to get a separate data volume for LLM models.

Life Enhancing Home Office Items

· 2 min read
Two surprisingly impactful home office upgrades: rollerblade-style chair wheels that glide on carpet and hard floors, and replacement arm rests that make an old chair feel new.

Running Github Pages locally

· 2 min read
Getting Jekyll and GitHub Pages running locally in WSL2 Ubuntu, including the missing webrick fix for Ruby 3.0+ and using VS Code for markdown editing.

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