technical Faking disks to look real with QEMU and Proxmox Proxmox can give virtual disks realistic identities, but `serial=` alone is not enough for `inxi -xD` to make things feel real in a test environment.
Control a Mitsubishi mini-split with ESPHome and Home Assistant for $10 Fully open hardware and software to control a proprietary appliance? Yes please.
technical The Enshittification of Plex 💩 "But lifetime passers are grandfathered in" you might say, "so why should I care?".
book-review I read a book. Earlier this year I decided to try and set myself the ambitious goal of reading a book. Yes, you read that right. One book.
technical Codex is changing how I think about computers There is no doubt we're living through a seismic change in how we interface with computers. I have spent the last 15+ years learning a craft, how to
factorio Factorio: Controlling imports from Space Only import what you need from space by reading the contents of your logistics network from a Roboport
factorio Factorio: Controlling Space Ship collector filters via circuit logic Set Asteroid collector filters by reading the contents of a belt
factorio Factorio: Recycler Belt Stacking Maximised Recycler efficiency by using Stack Inserters and the Circuit Network
technical Was Solar Worth It? In NC where the sun shines a lot, but electricity from The Grid is cheap what is the ROI on an 8kw solar system?
technical AppArmor's Awkward Aftermath Atop Proxmox 9 Proxmox 9 looks great, but AppArmor keeps getting in the way
technical Unprivileged LXCs are just a bit annoying Proxmox 9's AppArmor 4.1 upgrade broke Intel QuickSync monitoring in unprivileged LXC containers. The workarounds require such significant security compromises that privileged containers are arguably the only realistic option now.
technical Proxmox 9 broke my docker containers A simple but effective way to "fix" things is to disable apparmor, here's how.
technical What if..? I have a 4 hour flight next week, grab the Top Gear specials and send them to my iPad
self-hosted Self-Hosted 150. Fin. Almost 6 years. 150 episodes. 34 guests. 1 Chris. 1 Badger. 1 podcast comes to an end. I thought it fitting to write this post, about the Self-Hosted podcast drawing
linux How to enable Intel Quicksync on NixOS with a Supermicro X13SAE-F and an Intel i5-13600k Like most things, getting Quicksync working on NixOS with a motherboard that has IPMI and a 13th gen Intel chip is quite simple once you know how. The complexities come
technical Set a static IP in Unraid from the command line When flashing the brand new Unraid 7 to a USB stick earlier today I did something silly. I configured a static IP that conflicted with another host in the same
technical Using Beszel to monitor Windows Beszel is a new, lightweight monitoring app that natively supports Mac and Linux. I'll cover how to set it up natively in Windows or WSL2 in today's post.
technical docker compose generator v2 release For the last ~7 years I have been using an Ansible role to manage my docker compose files. It was time for a major overhaul.
secret-management Keeping secrets secret with git-crypt Figuring out how to keep secrets secret using git-crypt and PGP keys.
ansible git submodules for fun and profit with Ansible No matter how hard I try to fully switch over to Nix, I always seem to end up back at the altar of Ansible. This post isn't about
technical Replacing Google with SearXNG as the default in Chrome No tracking. No ads. Search as it was. Now when you enter a search query in the Chrome address bar it will route through your SearXNG instance automatically.
technical 4Kn sector disk passthrough in Proxmox Solving an issue with 4Kn sector disks and passthrough in Proxmox with direct KVM arg injection.
technical Everyone should have a PiKVM in their desk area What do you do when you want to tinker with a bare metal system? For years, I'd go drag an old monitor, keyboard, and mouse out of a
