About PAS.xyz

Project Alphabet Soup is a documentation site of my journey into the world of Linux and home servers. It began back in July 2024 when I decided to turn an old PC in a network attached storage device. That later turn into ditching every online data storage and web service I had, developing some kind of Linux device to replace them, and falling deeper into the hole that is Linux.

I consider myself to be computer savvy enough to get through everyday tasks and not explode a computer, but I am by no means an IT professional. My computer experience began with a weekend class that taugh me Photoshop and some basic HTML when I was 12 years old, followed by a class on Microsoft Visual Basic (which did result in going to a programming competition in Washington, DC at 13). But my main thing is music production and photography; both in which I use a computer for, but I’m by no means a professional computer guy.

What you will find here is a log of my journey through developing more Linux devices and services as well as my documentation behind what I’m doing in my own server room; or homelab as most would call it. (This site is five months behind my starting this journey, so I will be filling the backlog of what I’ve done over the next month or two.) Feel free to take any of the information you find here and use it to help you build your own servers, NAS, and more.

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