Take a look at my post here. Do You Really Need Wi-Fi 7 in Your Home Lab in 2025? https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2025/12/do-you-really-need-wi-fi-7-in-your-home-lab-in-2025/

Here is a good video explaining what will happen if there is ban on the company. One item it talked about was smart home devices that are made by TP-Link which slipped my mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-eHtS0U4TY&t=13s

My latest development with n8n is a workflow that uses a text classification node and AI model to determine which label to assign to particular emails as they hit the inbox. This ia a fairly simplistic four stage workflow 1. Gmail Trigger Node: that runs every 15 Minutes to check for new emails (in the inbox) 2. Text Classifier Node: If an email exists it will be fed to the text classification node that will utilise the 3. AI model: Sub-Node reviews the content of the Subject Matter and Email Body then....... 3. Gmail Label Node: Routes the Email to the relevant label node for labelling. The entire process once activated is handoff.

Well after two years of luck, it finally ran out. I had an automated message about 5pm UK Time to say that one of my web urls wasnt responding. On checking the VM it indeed wasnt responding..... then the fun began......... Not only was the url down but hidden in an avalanche of alerts in Jira was that the entire hypervisor containing approx 25 VM's and 32tb of active data had fallen over, along with my Zabbix and SIEM instances. Luckily I have an "every 24 hour" backup strategy, and, as of 5am this morning all the VMs on that Hypervisor had backed up. So for the moment I am restoring critical VM's to one of my other two servers, then on the weekend I will begin the painful task of a full rebuild of an 80tb Hypervisor Server. So everyone, ensure you backup regular, you never know when its your turn.......

Today was fine for a small project. I purchased this KEMP Loadmaster LM3000 a week ago from an IT recycling company. What is annoying is when things aren't reset. Took me over an hour to break into the admin account so that I could reset it to factory defaults. The hardware had a whole load of server configuration information contained within it. Now it's time to learn how to configure this, then add it to my homelab ecosystem.