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!

I’ve noticed that quite a few of my VM workloads and NFS workloads are rather slow on my Proxmox box, due to the facts that it’s sitting on spinning rust (also known as hard disk drives) a lo...

I’m prepping a lot of stuff with cloud-init lately, and one step I always forget when installing my base OS is keeping the vg name clear of any hostname stuff. So, as a reminder to myself, and a s...

Close to when we were moving I decided to do something about my rather huge paper archive (bills, receipts, …). I set about digitizing it all using a flatbed scanner, my cellphone and Swiftscan (fo...

About a month and a bit in me learning the piano, I’ve had to rethink my remote piano learning setup. The latency was at points really annnoying (sometimes nearly a second) - it’s confusing when yo...