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About Me

Hi, I'm FlashWreck (aka Aaditya Gupta) from India. I like creating and improving (or messing up) my homelab, servers and self hosted projects. I also really like graphic design. I also like Rock and Metal music. Ranging from Psychedelic, Progressive and Soft Rock to Grunge or Metal. (Pink Floyd, Soundgarden, Nirvana, The Beatles, King Crimson etc)

I'm passionate about creating things and tinkering with tech. Whether it be getting old tech from the attic to work or adding new things to my homelab. I also like photography and graphic design.

What I have made

My home lab/server with an old laptop and a Raspberry Pi 5. Including things like a VPN, Home Automation (using Home Assistant), Media Server (Plex), Photo Library (Photoprism), AI Server (Open WebUI), Personal Finance Tracker (Actualbudget), Password Manager (Vaultwarden) etc.
Private Matrix Server for End to End Encrypted (E2EE) conversations with my friends, with a STUN/TURN server for voice/video calls.
This very Website.
A Minecraft SMP (Named Eclipse SMP)
Tutorials about linux on my YouTube channel.
A selfhosted music server like Spotify (using Navidrome and FLAC Files) with my best friend Sidharth @ sidharthify.me
A personal bookmark manager with AI tagging (KaraKeep)
Multiple GFX works for many people.
Made a DIY Security Wifi Camera with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W, Raspberry Pi Camera Module and MotionEyeOS
Learnt soldering, flashed multiple off the shelf tuya (chinese cloud) based devices to flash open source custom firmware that's more compatible with Home Assistant.
Made a DNS server for my local network, for network wide adblocking and dns query management. With Unbound as a recursive, validating and cachinng DNS resolver. Along with my other networking stack. Using a Radxa Zero 3E (as it had inbuilt gigabit ethernet perfect for networking)