My thoughts on the pang-wang Archive

💭 Tyblog | systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 11:00:54 +0000

I found this post on systemd this morning, and although I've been a Linux user for around 6 years now, there's some leve

💭 Self-Hosting A Cluster On Old Phones | Hackaday

Sun, 06 Jul 2025 11:30:17 +0000

Came across a blog and article on using a mobile OS to self-host a cluster on old phones... I happen to keep several old

💭 Linux Explained: What is The Linux Kernel? - YouTube

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 11:28:18 +0000

I'm getting sucked into the Linux is a kernel not an operating system crowd because tonight I realized I couldn't descri

I was wrecked by a weird combo of » and -e

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 08:44:59 +0000

If state matters then check it in the beginning or handle it on a failure... Let me explain

SMB with ZFS on Ubuntu

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:18:35 +0000

sudo apt-get install -y samba \\ then set sharesmb=on \\ chown the user \\ smbpasswd -a \\ then mount with user/password from other machine

Jellyfin container updates for HWE + AMD

Sat, 14 Dec 2024 11:27:15 +0000

I use LSIO Jelyfin container for the easy addon they provide for AMD GPUs but I couldn't get trickplay to work with HWE...

rsync like a pro

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:52:23 +0000

I am moving a hefty amount of data to a new ZFS pool due to some corruption and I want to avoid using for this just to make sure I don't propagate any...

D and uninterruptable sleep

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:48:10 +0000

I recently have been having significant home server issues, and that's not the point of this - today I learned what state is when looking at htop.

hostnamectl to easily change hostname

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 07:25:59 +0000

hostnamectl is apparently a linux utility for easily changing your hostname in a variety of ways

DNS Broke After Reboot - Ubuntu 22.04

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 08:08:40 +0000

I rebooted by server and DNS broke randomly. I have no idea if it was from a kernel update or what but that's the issue with Ubuntu I guess...

Restart KDE Plasma

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 15:53:52 +0000

Plasma shits the bed a little too often on Fedora for me right now but I finally have a quick fix...

docker-remote-add

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:19:00 +0000

Add from url??

Docker copy and chown

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:18:09 +0000

COPY --chown=myuser:mygroup source-file target-file

Interesting IPs between Jellyfin clients and server depending on tailscale and server address

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 06:24:57 +0000

When connecting from my phone to jellyfin I'm seeing some interesting patterns.

Upgrading your kernel can F you up… whoops

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 10:21:59 +0000

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/update-error-with-coral-tpu-drivers.136888/#post-608975 I lost TPU for frigate, this saved me ass

DHCP Restart to Save Ubuntu 22.04 Server Networking

Sun, 31 Dec 2023 20:26:50 +0000

I moved a computer to a remote location for an off-site backup but when it was powered on it wouldn't show up on any networks. A solution that got me back in...

Refresh Nextcloud Groupfolders after messing around on the filesystem

Sat, 23 Sep 2023 12:45:06 +0000

Exec in as www-data and run ./occ groupfolders:scan folder_id -v (the -v to see what it's doing)

Convert Word Doc to PDF with Headless Libreoffice

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 06:48:38 +0000

I've been using paperless-ngx to manage all my documents, but every once in a while I'll get a file to deal with...

i3-Like keyboard mapping in Pop_OS

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 05:51:25 +0000

I was introduced to tiling window managers through i3, which I use heavily on one of my machines. I have switched to Pop_OS! at home though, which has a...

Use non-standard named ssh keys with github

Tue, 03 Jan 2023 08:34:50 +0000

I was getting when trying to push to GH using ssh. When I tested the connection I saw that a bunch of keys in ``~/.ssh/ were being attempted

Reminder about ssh-copy-id for SSH and Ansible

Wed, 28 Dec 2022 13:33:07 +0000

this makes sure I can run ansible from my desktop against VMs on my server easily if they have tailscale for the hostname - otherwise use the IP

Nextcloud Docker Upgrade Error

Wed, 28 Dec 2022 09:39:27 +0000

https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/nextcloud-docker-upgrade-error

Adding docker daemon.json broke docker

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 10:02:25 +0000

in /lib/systemd/system/docker.service there is an ExecStart command that got placed there when I setup Docker with Ansible - it threw the -H flag which told...

suda.vim for sudo access to files

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 09:45:34 +0000

I regularly need to edit system config files - take /etc/sanoid/sanoid.conf as an example... I'll want to play with something but if I don't start Neovim as...

Pipe to a pager to preserve console output in SSH session

Sun, 18 Dec 2022 15:04:02 +0000

I'm playing with my ansible playbook in a remote tmux session, and I'm no wiz so I don't know the ins and outs, but I can't scroll up to get any console log...

Description of my proposed vimconf 2022 talk

Sat, 12 Nov 2022 19:39:19 +0000

Switching to Vim opened a whole new world to me for interacting with a computer and for getting things done. Before I adopted Vim I used GUIs for everything...

Make a series of directories fast!

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 15:27:50 +0000

mkdir s{1..10} will make directories s1, s2, ... s10 in one command!

Don’t forget to load XMP!

Sun, 09 Oct 2022 07:17:43 +0000

Bought some DDR4-3600 speed RAM but only seeing 2666? Load up the BIOS, find DRAM config or something similar, and make sure to load the XMP profile to get...

My PassMark Scores

Sat, 08 Oct 2022 18:43:29 +0000

!!! note "Babyblue v2"

Suddenly SSH requires a password

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 11:14:37 +0000

ssh -v -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa nic@hogwarts

Check Your BIOS Version On Ubuntu

Sun, 02 Oct 2022 18:21:58 +0000

sudo dmidecode -s bios-version

Append string to list of files with xarg

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 11:26:02 +0000

❯ find . -name "requirements.in" -print0 | xargs -0 sh -c 'for arg in "$@"; do echo "awscli" >>"$arg"; done'

Check your SMART status with smartctl

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 06:30:27 +0000

https://www.simplified.guide/linux/disk-health-check

Mounting exFAT USB in Linux

Sun, 31 Jul 2022 07:38:43 +0000

Steps sudo fdisk -l then look for the device and partition get the Type column mount Example # dumbledore in /media NO PYTHON VENV SET ❯ sudo fdisk -l ... Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdk1 * 2048 60371951 60369904 28.8G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sdk2 60371952 60437487 65536 32M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32) dumbledore in /media NO PYTHON VENV SET ❯ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdk1 /media/ventoy-usb -o uid=1000 NTFS signature...

Setup KVM to boot from local PXE server

Wed, 06 Jul 2022 12:30:50 +0000

Assuming you have a PXE server running you only need small edits to the virt-manager config

kvm-network-interface-via-nat-ubuntu-20

Sat, 25 Jun 2022 07:20:41 +0000

I have started using VMs more and more in my development workflow and it's impossible to work in a VM without an internet connection for me most of the time....

cheat on your man

Thu, 23 Jun 2022 09:35:31 +0000

can be a pain to read... and there's lots of alternatives out there and one I've just started playing with is cheat

Reset SSH key passphrase

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 06:55:32 +0000

I got into a pickle where I encrypted the ssh keys I use for my SSH connections on LAN, but then I couldn't run my ansible playbook on my server! ssh-keygen...

Samba on Ubuntu 22 needs “inherit permissions” set

Tue, 31 May 2022 06:30:42 +0000

see samba config on hogwarts

Filtering emails with core utils

Mon, 30 May 2022 06:09:27 +0000

email1@me.com somebody_else@gmail.com #! /bin/bash # pick multiple emails from list and combine into comma seperated array emails=`cat .../emails | fzf -m | sed 's/^\|$/"/g'|paste -sd,` echo $emails

Reindex Nextcloud After Adding Data via CLI

Sun, 29 May 2022 15:34:33 +0000

I wrote here about setting up as the owner of any directories you want nextcloud to manage. However, I regularly struggle wtih permissions issues on my NAS...

Add space to your LVM on Ubuntu

Thu, 26 May 2022 21:33:55 +0000

I ran out of space on the SSD in my server when doing some file transfers but only 100GB was used of a 256 GB SSD?

Configure bridge network on Ubuntu 22.04 with Netplan

Sun, 22 May 2022 14:55:28 +0000

See 02-....yaml in ansible-nas

Netplan change from Focal to Jammy

Sun, 22 May 2022 13:23:17 +0000

I am revamping my home server and bumped myself early up to Jammy Jellyfish... however to my peril I reused my netplan config and after hitting my server...

Deleting files on remote storage from Ubuntu might not do what you think

Thu, 19 May 2022 05:51:50 +0000

From my daily driver Ubuntu machine I often open nautilus, dolphin, etc. and delete a file here or there on my NAS... turns out Ubuntu sends thse file to ON...

Remove ZFS Dataset Specific Snapshots

Thu, 19 May 2022 05:49:16 +0000

I started my homelab journey being super naive about ZFS and how to manage the filesystem... that bit me in the butt when transfering a ton of files out of...

File-Length

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I have a specific need for counting the number of lines in a file quickly. At work we use S3 for data storage during our Kedro pipeline development, and in...

Polybar-01

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

polybar is an awesome and super customizable status bar for your desktop environment.

Starship

Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

If you spend time in the terminal then you'll want it to look somewhat pleasing to the eye. I used to ssh into servers with no customization, use to edit a...

Tree

Sun, 06 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I wanted a quick way to generate an for a directory of html files that grows by 1 or 2 files a week. I don't know any html (the files are exports from my...

Stow

Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Stow is a great tool for managing dotfiles. My usage looks like cloning my dotfiles to my home directory, setting some environment variables via a script,...

Stow-Target

Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Check out stow for a brief introduction to

Ubuntu-Static-Ip

Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Sometimes I need to manually set a static IP of a Linux machine. I generally run the latest version of Ubuntu server in my VMs at home.