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Starting On My IaC Journey

Foreword Before anyone gets on me, I know this has been a thing for a while. I鈥檝e heard about Ansible playbooks ever since I got interested in Docker, Docker Compose, & Kubernetes. The difference is I never really thought it was useful to me. It always seemed a bit overly complicated compared to what I was using my homelab for which was mostly a cost saving venture, i.e. no-subscription/self-hosted alternatives to things which we do genuinely use a lot like Actual Budget instead of YNAB, Mealie instead of AnyList, & TrueNAS instead of Google Drive (hoping no drives die while the costs are so high for everything 馃). ...

August 21, 2026 路 4 min 路 Dillon Chappell
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Passing Through an Intel GPU on Proxmox

Passing Through an Intel GPU on Proxmox Why an Intel Card My media stack has been running on Proxmox for a while, and up until recently it leaned on an NVIDIA GPU for hardware transcoding in Jellyfin. NVIDIA passthrough works, but it comes with the typical NVIDIA baggage: proprietary driver installs on both the host and inside containers, licensing quirks around concurrent transcode sessions on consumer cards, and a driver stack that tends to break in small, annoying ways after kernel updates. ...

July 17, 2026 路 5 min 路 Dillon Chappell