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I’m sure I’m not the first to make a rusty pun but I couldn’t resist. I’ve coded professionally now for around 25 years but unlike many developers I don’t actually know that many languages well. My career to day has…
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Making a Logitech MX Master 3 Thumbwheel Work Under Linux
I have a Logitech MX Master 3 mouse which I absolutely love, it’s easily the best mouse I’ve owned (and I’ve owned a few) but as with many things Logitech it isn’t super well supported out of the box under…
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KDE Plasma and Virtual Desktops
I was really surprised to find the out of the box KDE Plasma doesn’t seem to have virtual desktops turned on (or at least it’s set to a single desktop). I know Windows technically has this now but it’s still…
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Mounting USB Drives Under Debian
I’m currently designing a backup system built around Resitc and removable USB drives. Before I can really get started though I need to properly understand how to manage the drives, in particular mounting and unmounting them. What I’m hoping I’ll…
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Video Encoding with HandBrake
I’ve recently been organizing some of the video files I have and a few of them are larger than I would prefer. It occurred to me that I’m somewhat familiar with HandBrake so I should probably re-encode them. I’ve used…
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Debian Has a Terrible Out-of-the-Box Experience
In an earlier article I mentioned that I was going to switch to Linux and I’d selected KDE Neon as my distro of choice. After some thought I came to the conclusion that I’d be better off just going with…
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Task Management with Vikunja
Vikunja is a task / project management application. The unpronounceable name apparently comes from a relative of the llama, overlooking the name for a moment this appears to be a great application. Deployment is a little trickier than with most…
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A Stupid Failure With a Home Lab – Out of Disk Space
I’ve just had what is probably the most ridiculous failure in my home lab. I found that my media download server was not longer running properly, the services were coming up but they were failing left right and centre. I…
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Setting up a Reverse Proxy for a Home Lab
Once you start setting up a home lab you very quickly end up with a whole host of services and each one has it’s own port number and or host. To save you having to remember all of that you…
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Creating a Debian LXC Container on Proxmox
I said previously that I wasn’t going to write this article but now I come to properly think about it I feel it’s worth it. Part of why I write these articles is to help beginners get started with tools…
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Running Calibre on a Virtual Machine with a Network Library
This article started out as just a guide on running Calibre with a network library, a difficult task at the best of times, it has since had to morph into a guide on running Calibre Web in the same way…
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Self Hosted Services
This is a list of services that I self host on my personal network. This almost all runs on a Proxmox server which I mostly wrote a guide about putting together. It has a RAIDZ2 array of a bit over…