Hello! Just wanted to introduce myself a bit.

I’m a system administrator during the day working with some PITA IBM products, Linux, and related projects as smaller duties.

I’m an avid HomeLabber trying to expand my own skill set but also provide a way for people to engage and have meaningful conversations. During my free time I’m usually tinkering with existing self hosted services or trying to setup new ones to enhance my family’s experience or to make life easier in some fashion.

I have a passion for basically everything technology and learning as much as I can. I realize that as I get older, I’m not picking up on things as fast as I would previously, but I’m going to attribute that to attempting to introduce significantly more complex systems that require more effort, critical thinking, and time to implement.

Two of my most recent successes in my self hosting journey have been getting this Lemmy instance up and running, and also getting VLANs fully functioning in my home network. I have too many pieces to a puzzle that caused most people to be unable to help me successfully… it took me just about a year of off and on again searching through forums, asking AI and critical thinking on how to get VLANs working properly in my homelab. Well… home production … since there are family members and myself using these things in the regular.

Edit: as I read this post back I found a bunch of errors. iOS autocorrect has screwed me so many times, it’s frustrating. Why iOS doesn’t know “Lemmy” after I’ve saved it as a word so many times is baffling.