https://www.karniks.net/tags/homelab/Recent content in Homelab on Suhas KarnikHugoen-usSat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.karniks.net/posts/cc-setup/Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.karniks.net/posts/cc-setup/<p>I&rsquo;ve been using Claude Code heavily for the past few months, and at some point I started getting uncomfortable with what it could reach. Not because it had done anything wrong — it hadn&rsquo;t — but because the blast radius if something did go wrong was my entire home directory. One rogue prompt injection in a skill file or a malicious string lurking in some library&rsquo;s README, and Claude dutifully <code>rm -rf</code>s the wrong thing or reads my SSH keys into a response. It can&rsquo;t run <code>sudo</code>, sure, but it doesn&rsquo;t need to. Everything that matters to me as a user lives in <code>~</code>.</p>https://www.karniks.net/posts/homelab/Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.karniks.net/posts/homelab/<p>For the last several months I&rsquo;ve started running my own homelab on a single cheap server machine sitting on my home LAN. The primary motivation for this was to familiarise myself with running a server and multiple services on bare metal and understand how to manage such infrastructure.</p> <h2 id="infrastructure">Infrastructure</h2> <p>I chose a refurbished Dell Optiplex 7040 Mini PC to host the infrastructure. As multiple workloads were expected, I chose to install Proxmox VE on this device. Proxmox is a Debian derivative Linux distribution that is designed to act as a hypervisor for VMs and lightweight Linux Containers (LXCs) from a common compute and storage infrastructure. It can be used to manage a data center with multiple physical hosts, but in my setup there is only one server.</p>