Six spare machines, three years of "I'll buy just this one thing," and every decision that got me from a drawer of unused Pis to a running homelab. Written for other tinkerers.https://naysync.com/enhttps://naysync.com/blog/four-raspberry-pis-baseline/https://naysync.com/blog/four-raspberry-pis-baseline/Three years ago I bought Raspberry Pis 'to learn Kubernetes' and never opened the boxes. This is what I did with them once I finally admitted that wasn't happening — and the repeatable baseline that means I never have to think about Pi setup again.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTRaspberryPiAnsibleHomelabBeginnerhttps://naysync.com/blog/mini-pcs-to-proxmox-cluster/https://naysync.com/blog/mini-pcs-to-proxmox-cluster/How I took two refurbed office desktops and made them into the two-node Proxmox setup that runs every VM in my homelab. Why refurbs, why not full HA, and every gotcha I hit installing PVE for the first time — so you don't.Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTProxmoxAnsibleHomelabBeginnerhttps://naysync.com/blog/homelab-from-spare-parts/https://naysync.com/blog/homelab-from-spare-parts/Two used mini PCs from a corporate refurb lot, four Raspberry Pis from a Kubernetes project that never happened, and a NAS I saved for. Every decision I made along the way — Proxmox, Debian, Ansible — and why.Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTHomelabAnsibleProxmoxDebianBeginner