I’ve been searching for an email client. Well, more than an email client - a piece of software (or interconnected pieces) that can handle email, calendaring and contacts - often referred to as a Pe...

ACME SSL Certificates, made in Italy

Ikea Starkvind and Home Assistant We recently bought an Ikea Starkvind Air Purifier, which supports Zigbee. I wanted to find out what I could do with it from within Home Assistant, possibly automa...

My static blog to-do list kept growing, so I decided to do something about it. I’ve switched from Minimal Mistakes to Chirpy as a theme, because it offers built-in dark/light theme support and has...

I’m one of the (main) sysadmins of a forum running phpBB. It also uses Plausible, a self-hosted web analytics tool, so we have some grasp where our users come from. My main focus is dealing with t...

When we moved to our new home, we looked for a new place to exercise. While we had been spoiled with a gym at the end of our old street, our new location required a half-hour commute, which quickly...

For $reasons there was a Citrix Workspace installation on my partner’s computer. This installation hadn’t been used in forever, and I did not manage to get rid of it either (uninstalling would fail...

I recently activated IPv6 on my Netcup VPS, and in the process of setting it up on all my LXCs I noticed that for “reasons” the IPv6 default route would vanish after starting Docker (switching it a...

In my original deployment of Proxmox on my VPS I only enabled IPv4, and I was using socat to forward traffic from the IPv6 address of the host to the internal IPv4 addresses of the containers. Not ...

I run Proxmox Virtual Environment as my virtualisation platform. On top of this I use virtual machines using KVM and Linux Containers using LXC - both of which are natively supported on ProxmoxVE. ...