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28 April 2026
Testing Proxmox restores before production relies on them

A green job in a Proxmox backup guide means very little until the restore boots, logs in, and serves traffic. I have trusted the dashboard before, only to find the archive was fine and the recovery was not, which is a poor way to learn anything.

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Network segmentation for vehicle data in Home Assistant

Modern cars are noisy little computers, and vehicle telemetry isolation only works if you treat them that way from the start. I put the car on its own...

26 April 2026
Isolating Android on a VLAN with firewall rules and split

I would not migrate an Android phone into my homelab blind. A clean Android homelab firewall DNS split, with VLAN isolation and hard DNS rules, keeps...

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