Minilab

Good morning, Agent. You’ve been running Docker inside LXC containers on Proxmox for over a year now. Ten containers. Ten little fortresses, each housing its own Docker Compose stack. Immich, Frigate, Jellyfin, the Arr empire. Clean separation. Independent backups. Feels right. Then someone drops a Reddit thread in your lap: “Docker in LXC is an antipattern.” Time to audit the operation. The Setup Under Scrutiny Here’s how the Minilab is architected. Every service gets its own LXC container on Proxmox, and inside each one, Docker runs the actual application: ...

You’re deep in a deploy. Terminal open. Three SSH sessions. A PR review half-done. Then your partner texts: “Did you leave the heater on at Ragusa?” You could switch to the browser. Find the bookmark. Wait for Home Assistant to load. Navigate to the right entity. Check. Switch back to the terminal. Lose your place in the diff. Or you could just ask. I manage two houses. Two Home Assistant instances. Dozens of entities spread across two sites connected by Tailscale. For months, the friction was constant: browser tabs, bookmarked URLs, different tokens, the cognitive tax of context-switching between code and home. ...

Good morning, Agent. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to unify two disparate headquarters into a single, synchronized digital fortress. The target: a seamless “Home Lab” experience spanning two physical locations (House 1 (The Master) and House 2 (The Satellite)). This isn’t just about blinking lights in a closet. This is about reclaiming control. It’s about establishing a secure, local extraction point for data, intelligence, and automation. ...