Nearly a year since I've posted

Having my annual itch to start blogging again and I noticed that it's almost a year since the last time I posted. Good grief. What's been going on in tech land this year? I continued to move everything for the home systems and Chia to wall…

Updating the cert on a Synapse Matrix standalone server

As usual, logging this so I don't lose track of it later: https://www.linode.com/community/questions/18963/certbot-error-problem-binding-to-port-80 And the original content in case it goes missing: This is a common CertBot error when using the Standalone plugin (--standalone flag) during the certificate renewal/creation process.…

Migrating a Chia farmer/wallet between servers

Yeah, I'm trying Chia farming with the copious disk space I have. Probably be a waste of effort, but I am learning some interesting things in the process. I started with a simple Windows install and then decided to move to Ubuntu in a VM. The VM farmer…

Grafana in kiosk mode on Pi Zero W

Per my earlier post, I've been using a Pi Zero W with Chromium in a kiosk mode to display Grafana on a TV. Not sure if something changed with Chromium in the December 2020 release, but it wasn't working when I tried to do a rebuild.…

Funky Teams Audio Conferencing behavior

Added some new users recently who do not have phones. I'm accustomed to adding an AD Attribute to the Proxy Addresses section for the SIP:user@domain.com attribute when they have a phone. Because these users don't, I didn't. Apparently, the configuration we…

The future of this blog

I have an itch to start writing, so I think I'll do it here. As a first step, I've removed the Amazon links. They weren't doing anything, anyway. What will I write about? I'm not entirely sure. I have political ideas (which…

Setting up k3s on a single RPi4

Testing out the ability to run some containers on RPi4 and I have a single borrowed device. Most of the tutorials out there describe a multi-node configuration and that's led to some challenges for me to understand this. First, I started with this tutorial: https://github.com/mhausenblas/…

How to create a file drop in Teams

Actually, this is to create a file folder in Teams that will move files to another (private) location whenever a new file is dropped in there. Why would you want to do that? You might want to get files in a semi-secure manner but then not have them live in…