I finally (shame on me) cycled all my SSH keys to use passphrases. One thing I massively dislike is having to enter my passphrase when using them. ssh-agent to the rescue! What does ssh-agent do? ...
I live in Belgium, but I prefer english as my default locale. Using the en_US or en_GB locale brings problems of it’s own - not having the right system (metric) or wrong start of week day.. A whil...
One of the devices in the house has a micro-HDMI connecter which is used from time to time with our TV. Unfortunately Linux (pulseaudio) doesn’t switch automatically to the right audio, keeping the...
We’ve had an iRobot Roomba 625 roving the house doing the vacuuming now for over two years and have been happy with having it around. It definitely helps keeping up the vacuuming, but it doesn’t do...
I’ve been moving some docker containers back from the VM I put them back to Linux Containers (LXC) because of I/O performance and cpu consumption reasons (caused by that I/O). LXC is a light-weigh...
One of the docker containers I’ve been using is the wonderful BackupPC for agentless backups. This thing works quite well, allowing me to backup laptops around the house without too much hassle. It...
The Proxmox box at my home is also being used as a NAS, with Samba and NFS doing the sharing. It had 4 WD Red 6TB PMR drives, in a raidz1 configuration, giving me a net capacity of 18TB (give or ta...
In the original design of my Proxmox box I opted for running the docker containers straight on the host. For a lot of reasons, this is actually a Bad Idea™️, and it’s been one of my goals to migrat...
Happy new year Y’all!
It’s that time of the year again… Time for the Advent Of Code! This year I’ll have a go with Go - I’ve never written anything in it, so it’s going to be a challenge!