Why I moved my homelab to ARM
March 2026After three years on a noisy x86 tower I finally migrated everything to a pair of small ARM boards. Power draw dropped from 90W to 11W and, surprisingly, nothing broke except one ancient container image.
After three years on a noisy x86 tower I finally migrated everything to a pair of small ARM boards. Power draw dropped from 90W to 11W and, surprisingly, nothing broke except one ancient container image.
Khinkali, thermal baths and the best cold brew I have had outside of Melbourne. Notes and photos coming soon.
The best pull request I merged this year deleted 4,000 lines. Some thoughts on why removing is harder than adding.