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
technical Reading obfuscated Seagate SMART stats with smartctl Reading a SMART report from a Seagate drive with smartctl can be bit tricky sometimes. Values that should be human readable are obfuscated. This can lead to issues in all
perfect-media-server The Best Media Server CPU... in the world. After a solid 8 months of testing, I think we have a big enough sample size to draw some conclusions. The best media server CPU is...
technical Set a static IP address in Home Assistant OS Full credit goes to this forum post. I found myself in need of dropping to the CLI for a fresh Home Assistant OS install on top of Proxmox after using
linux Fixing "kernel EDID has corrupt header" in Proxmox 8 and NixOS Since fairly recently my Proxmox install has shown an almost barf inducing amount of errors along the lines of edid block 0 is all zeroes or kernel EDID has corrupt
nix Packaging a go app for NixOS The imposter syndrome around almost anything to do with NixOS is as strong as the pull to use it in the first place.
travel Exploring Arizona My travels got off to a good start this year. I had a work thing in Phoenix this week and as I usually try to do, I managed to take
year-in-review 2023: My Year in Review As is annual tradition, here are my 2023 highlights. It's been a big year! A new job, lots of time at Virginia International Raceway (VIR), Ella started at
golf r My 2019 MK7.5 Golf R - A HPDE weapon! Inspired by @DerHase I wanted to get a journal thread going. This is my 6th Golf and my 4th MK7! This post is reconstitution of a thread on golfmk7.com
