Category: Posts

  • Where to go after Reddit

    A big chunk of my mindless doomscrolling used to go to Reddit, but also, Reddit posts from the various communities were frequently the useful results when googling error messages. I lurked in many a sub-reddit, but only posted in a couple – usually r/self-hosted or r/Homelab. The problematic treatment of the communities in the leadup…

  • Complicating the Temperature API

    I’ve been slammed with other work, so my web dev learning has fallen well behind. Luckily, the YouTube procrastination algorithm noticed this and suggested I watch a video from CodeWithCon titled Learn Backend in 10 MINUTES. Since I was watching a video of a guy learning to land a C152 at St Baths (a skill…

  • HDD Swap on A1278 MacBook Pro

    My MacBook died, I guess about three years ago. It was randomly difficult for a week or so, but then just behaving as if it had no hard drive at all. It’s been in a drawer ever since waiting for me to replace the hard drive and see if I could sell it, which I…

  • Outside Temperature From an API in a Shell Script

    I’m interested in collecting some internal temperature data from my servers to look at the effect of adding an NMVe drive. Last week we had a couple of warm days immediately followed by a couple of cool ones. I imagine a 20° ambient temperature change could effect the server temperatures, so I thought it would…

  • Linux on HP Mini 110

    I’ve been furthering my Linux education by playing with some desktop distros in VMs, but it’s not a great experience accessing them through the Proxmox web GUI. The alternative to this is to use a good SPICE client on the remote desktop, but there is not a simple good solution for this for MacOS. I’ve…

  • rsync / Synology / @eaDir

    The reason I’ve been figuring out rsync is to setup my backup strategy. Eventually this will partly be managed with scheduled tasks (ie cron jobs) running rsync. I wanted the SSH in and try this out, since I didn’t know some basic things like the mount points of the shares. Mount points My first issue…

  • SSH with Keys to Synology

    The Synology operating system DSM (I’m on DSM 7.1.1) is Linux, but its highly customised for the purpose of making running a complicated Linux NAS doable for less technical users. Due to that, some things that are routine in a regular distro, require a few more steps to jump through to get them to work.…

  • Nostalgia

    I’m not super interested in FreeDOS, but did enjoy this video from Jim Hall since I lived through all this, and was working in IT (well, ‘data processing’ actually) during the introduction of the IBM PC. My first DOS was 2.11, but spent a lot more time on 3.12, and later 4.01. Windows wasn’t really…

  • NAS Storage Calculations

    I’ve been really happy with my two bay Synology NAS – a DS216j. The Synology’s seem to have great reputation for just pushing on. Mine is loaded up with two 8TB Seagate Barracudas in RAID 1 leaving me with a one drive failure redundancy. I guess a more hard-core host-er than me would be building…

  • Could it be a permissions problem?

    Unix, and therefore Linux, was built from the ground up as a multi-user system. Thanks to this, great security is baked in, for example every file has permission attributes for it’s owner, the group the owner is a member of, and then everyone. For example, it might be a good idea if I can read,…