FarmNerdsTech, homelab and homestead reviews and build notes.https://farmnerds.net/6-watt mini PC as a Proxmox nodehttps://farmnerds.net/reviews/sample-mini-pc-proxmox-node/https://farmnerds.net/reviews/sample-mini-pc-proxmox-node/Three nodes, fourteen guests, one feed-store power strip. Benchmarks, power draw and what broke.Thu, 12 Nov 2026 00:40:00 GMTWi-Fi 7 mesh across a metal barn: three kits testedhttps://farmnerds.net/articles/sample-wifi-7-metal-barn/https://farmnerds.net/articles/sample-wifi-7-metal-barn/Sheet metal eats signal. One kit held 600 Mbps at the far stall.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 20:15:00 GMTWe built a smoker controller that texts when the brisket stallshttps://farmnerds.net/articles/sample-smoker-controller/https://farmnerds.net/articles/sample-smoker-controller/A thermocouple, a cheap microcontroller and one very patient brisket.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 01:30:00 GMTProxmox recipes: one-command Plex with GPU transcodinghttps://farmnerds.net/articles/sample-proxmox-plex-recipe/https://farmnerds.net/articles/sample-proxmox-plex-recipe/The script we use on every new node, explained line by line.Tue, 10 Nov 2026 17:20:00 GMTLoRa soil probes, month two: the data is in Grafanahttps://farmnerds.net/articles/sample-lora-soil-probes/https://farmnerds.net/articles/sample-lora-soil-probes/Six probes, one gateway, and a dashboard we check before coffee.Mon, 09 Nov 2026 15:05:00 GMTGPU passthrough on a budget: what actually workshttps://farmnerds.net/articles/sample-gpu-passthrough/https://farmnerds.net/articles/sample-gpu-passthrough/Which cards and boards cooperated, and which fought us the whole way.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 22:00:00 GMT